All Posts Tagged With: "Virus"

Internet Explorer 7 “Download the latest version!” is a trap

If you recently received an e-mail from “admin@ [microsoft.com]” with subject line “Internet Explorer 7″ and message body containing a link to “Download the latest version!”, you better not have clicked on that link.
This spam has a link to - TROJ_RENOS.ADX, a low risk Trojan program that can download other malicious files and affects your [...]

August 11th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
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Cyber criminals target Twitter

The new darling of Silicon Valley, Twitter, has been target by cyber criminals. A fake Twitter profile with a malicious payload has been spotted by security firm Kaspersky. It links to a pornographic video but downloads a fake version of Adobe Flash which installs programs capable of stealing data. The attack is believed to be [...]

August 5th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

What to do when you see “FBI vs Facebook”?

The phrase “FBI vs Facebook” has an enticing tone to it and this is why it is likely you are going to receive an email with “FBI vs Facebook” as the subject line. As you can imagine, it is a spam mail and this time FBI has warned public of the worm associated with this [...]

July 31st, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

Virus at JavaOne conference

Sun was found battling a new kind of virus at their JavaOne conference in San Francisco. The JavaOne conference took place May 6th to May 9th with 137 exhibitors. Started in 1996, JavaOne is one of the top tech events of the year at Moscone Center, San Francisco along with Apple’s Macworld Expo and Oracle’s [...]

May 11th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued