Tonight, one of my new clients asked me to clean up a rogue anti-virus app and install his new anti-virus, Trend Micro Titanium (…whatever that means). I popped the disc in, clicked install and bam! Check out the screen shot below (click to enlarge): Are you F’n kidd’in me? Trend Micro is NOT compatible with [...]
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I’ve used a couple of corporate anti-virus applications since I started my business more than 8 years ago but I have never seen a bigger pain in the ass, piece of crap AV solution like I have using Vipre Enterprise. I admit it…I kinda got sucked up by their advertising “Lose Your Bloatware Antivirus” because [...]
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I was just doing my morning email chores when I stumbled across an email from my YouTube account. This is what it said: s0m3b0de has sent you a message: Your Account is Infected Your YouTube account has been infected with a self mailing worm and will be terminated in approx. 48 hours if malicious activities [...]
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I’m really amazed that this doesn’t happen more often. I suppose it underscores the need for moving to a HIPS based AM solution. “Users of the BitDefender antivirus software started flooding the company’s support forums Saturday, apparently after a faulty antivirus update caused 64-bit Windows machines to stop working. The company acknowledged the issue in [...]
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I listen to a lot of Satellite radio (I’m a big Stern fan) and while listening the past few days (9-08-09 through 9-10-09) I’ve been completely annoyed by a misleading…scratch that…completely false commercial for a product called Double AntiSpy (in the commercial they say something like…”and ya know it’s the best because CNET and PC [...]
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I just read a really interesting report from the good guys over at KnujOn on how easy it is to advertise a fake pharmacy on Bing sponsored search. Looks like Bing is turning a blind eye for ad revenue. Almost all of these online pharmacies require no prescription and send people fake and/or hazardous drugs. [...]
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Lifehacker posted a pretty cool article on the most dangerous search terms. These terms are consistently dangerous throughout the year because they are highly searched and malware distributors know it. Tags: dangerous search terms, search terms
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The Confricker Worm now attacks (and most likely infects): Shared Computers with weak passwords (home users in workgroups) Computers without the latest security updates. Go here to download all your critical Microsoft patches! USB sticks and external hard drives Computers with open shares (common in corporate networks) Computers with weak passwords….ouch. Confricker is actually hacking [...]
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