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Storm virus attacks blogs |
 ...Storm virus is back again to infect blogs, webmails and bulletin boards. British and Korean computer security scientists claim it's a new variant of malware that is extremely difficult to detect.
The Storm worm looks like a message that features news about Europe's storms. In fact, this virus can evaluate network traffic on the computer and later insert a link to malicious website into user's post, webmail or bulleti... |
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Microsoft's Antivirus Causes Damage |
 ...erning OneCare included postings that state the cause of the message deletion.
Users found out that their e-mails were deleted by an antivirus program. It supposed to delete messages that contained malware attachments but besides doing its main job the antivirus whether quarantined or sometimes even erased all .pst or dbx files.
One user left a comment on Microsoft's OneCare forum saying that in case there is no way to... |
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Animated Cursors is now Windows' Vulnerability |
 ...ises a certain computer code.
In its advisory the company's officials stated that when viewing a Web page, previewing or reading an encoded message, or opening an e-mail attachment that includes a malware, the hacker can make the affected system to execute the code.
Often such kind of holes in the system are exploited by cybercrooks so they can make "drive-by" installations of their malware. Both spyware and remote ... |
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PandaLabs' List of Unusual Malicious Software |
| ...During the first half of 2007 there were dozens of new viruses and malware coming, which were based on very ingenious algorithms and did some funny things, partly. Based on this fact folks at PandaLabs have reviewed the list of most unusual and interesting malware.
The most religious virus: USBToy.A worm has been awarded this prestigious title. The reason for this was that each time an infected computer restarted, the ... |
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Microsoft Cautions of New Hacker Attack on Word Files |
 ...ious in opening documents in Windows Operating System, and namely Word files.
On March 22, the software giant warned that hackers may use an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's Windows in order to plant malware on users' PCs.
The possible attack reported by Microsoft's representatives is currently under the company's investigation. It is believed that the malware involves a Word file; however, Microsoft does not exclude o... |
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Website Ensures Threesome with Scarlett Johansson |
 ... There is no disclaimer, privacy policy or terms and conditions. In addition, the possibly fake site was tested online for viruses by LinkScanner and it turned out that it doesn't have any viruses or malware. It seems that the website, called scarlettjohansson.com, is just a flashy way to gather lots of email addresses.
It is worth mentioning that Hollywood stars has been the main bait of cybersquatters for more that a ... |
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New Virtual Korset to Prevent Malware Attacks |
| ...Scientists from the Tel Aviv University developed a one-of-a-kind software program dubbed "Korset" that is able to stop malware from damaging servers that run on Linux, operating system used by most web and email servers around the world.
According to Avishai Wool, a professor in the university's Faculty of Engineering, the newly created program is able to predict the future behavior of any malware that resides inside a... |
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