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New password from Facebook? Beware widely spread malware attack

Malicious hackers have spammed out an attack that pretends to be an email from Facebook support saying that your password has been changed. The messages, which have a variety of subject lines including "Facebook Service. A new password is sent you", "Facebook Support. Your password has been changed" and "Facebook Service. Your account is blocked", have a ZIP file attached which carries a Trojan horse.

The Top 7 Ways You can Detect Malware in Your System

Cybercriminals are making every effort to inject Malware in your system so that it is going to be difficult to detect. Many computers are loaded with this stuff but the users have no idea its there or how to get rid of it. It is very crucial to know what is running in your computer . This article highlights some of the useful anti malware utilities that can detect, remove and block malware from your system. Microsoft Process Explorer : Process Explorer shows you information about what processes are running on your system. It also describes each process. When your PC is running okay, you can runProcess Explorer to save a baseline. If anything goes wrong in your PC, you can see the differences between the list of processes beforehand and afterward. That may give you some clue about possibleMalware attack. Kaspersky's GetSystemInfo : GetSystemInfo is a free system program that gives you useful information about your system in order to troubleshoot technical issues. It can be us...

Porn virus publishes web history of victims on the net

A new type of malware infects PCs using file-share sites and publishes the user's net history on a public website before demanding a fee for its removal. The Japanese trojan virus installs itself on computers using a popular file-share service called Winni, used by up to 200m people. It targets those downloading illegal copies of games in the Hentai genre, an explicit form of anime. Website Yomiuri claims that 5500 people have so far admitted to being infected. The virus, known as Kenzero, is being monitored by web security firm Trend Micro in Japan. Masquerading as a game installation screen, it requests the PC owner's personal details. It then takes screengrabs of the user's web history and publishes it online in their name, before sending an e-mail or pop-up screen demanding a credit card payment of 1500 yen (£10) to "settle your violation of copyright law" and remove the webpage. Held to ransom The website that the history is published on is ow...

Bredolab Incar Pengguna Facebook

Hati-hati jika menerima email dari admin Facebook. Perhatikan subject email New Login System, Facebook Account Update, Facebook Update Tools atau Facebook Password Reset Confirmation. Pesan berukuran sekitar 105 kb tersebut berisi arahan agar pengguna melalukan update terhadap akun Facebooknya. Namun, ketika tombol updateusernamepassword yang akan menjadi sasaran. diklik, secara otomatis pengguna akan digiring ke website Facebook yang palsu.

Adobe To Surpass Microsoft As Hacker Target

Adobe Reader and Flash will surpass Microsoft Office applications as favorite targets of cybercriminals, a security vendor predicted Tuesday. In unveiling its 2010 Threat Predictions report, McAfee said the growing popularity of the Adobe products has attracted the attention of cybercriminals, who have been increasingly targeting the applications. Adobe Reader and Flash are two of the most widely deployed applications in the world. As a result of Adobe's success in client software, McAfee Labs believes "Adobe product exploitation will likely surpass that of Microsoft Office applications in 2010."

The Trojan That Never Was

Here's a cautionary tale about why, if you're a computer user, you shouldn't trust anyone: Not even your antivirus software. Avast, the free antivirus I've been using, and recommending for while, nearly gave me a heart attack the other day, via a nasty double whammy: wrongly identifying pretty much every program on my computer as a Trojan Horse virus, and then not telling me it had made a mistake. Antivirus software works like this: It keeps a library of bits of viruses it knows about it, and it compares those bits with everything on your computer. If it finds a match, warning sirens go off.