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Category Archives: Malicious Software
Should We Teach Students How To Write Viruses?
Over two years ago, George Ledin wrote an essay in Communications of the ACM, where he advocated teaching worms and viruses to computer science majors. He stated in that essay: Computer science students should learn to recognize, analyze, disable, and … Continue reading
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Howto Install a Content Filtering and Virus Checking Proxy
Commercial filters are often expensive, especially when used on a large number of computers, as would be the case in a school computer lab or in small or medium companies with computer networks. In contrast, open source filters are generally … Continue reading
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Some Security Utilities Can Kill Performances
Be careful with choosing antivirus, antyspyware and software firewall tools that you will use. It can significantly slow down performances of your Windows system, including but not limited to boot time, prime, and file IO delays. I’ve used Symantec Norton … Continue reading
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Happy New Year Virus
Just quick note and warning in New Year’s night: new virus spreads on Internet. It carries file postcard.exe or greetingcard.exe and variants, masked as greeting card send by someone to you. Be careful with opening attachments with names similar but … Continue reading
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The Panda Software Virus Yearbook 2006
As it does every year, Panda Software is publishing its annual list of those malicious codes which, although they may not have caused serious epidemics, have stood out in one way or another – read report here.
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Sony Settles Lawsuit From Rootkit Fiasco
Sony BMG has settled a lawsuit with the state of California over rootkit technology that it illegally installed on computers. Record label Sony BMG has agreed to pay a $750,000 fine and will reimburse consumers for up to $175 to … Continue reading
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MySpace and YouTube: Possible Worms and Adware Threats
Be very careful with usage of social sites as its insecurity increases. In November, security firm Websense alerted Internet users over a handful of MySpace pages hosting videos that, when played, attempted to install adware on a viewer’s system. The … Continue reading
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SMiShing – What is that?
You are probably overwhelmed with lot of new and various words and acronyms that you can hear or read everywhere. Here is one more: SMiShing. McAfee Avert Labs Blog in its post (I saw this word for first time there), … Continue reading
Stealth Malware Taxonomy
A very interesting paper written by Joanna Rutkowska titled “Introducing Stealth Malware Taxonomy” proposes a simple taxonomy that could be used to classify stealth malware according to how it interacts with the operating system. Read this paper here.
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PCI Rootkit
John Heasman, a security researcher at Next-Generation Security Software, released a paper titled “Implementing and Detecting a PCI Rootkit” describing a way to hide malicious code on graphics and network cards in such a way as to avoid detection and … Continue reading
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