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Internet Security 2010 Rogue, Winlogon2.exe and Other Fun Things for this Week…

I’ve been pretty busy this week with malware appointments and thought I’d share this weeks “note to self stuff”…

A client calls me and says that they have a fake antivirus (internet security 2010 rogue) and now they can’t login to Windows
When I arrive I load my UBCD4WIN and immediately:

Replace Atapi.sys.
Replace Userinit.exe.
Load the host registry and [...]

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FireFox 3.6 Being Released @ 9:30 PST Today

Firefox is releasing a pretty big update today at 9:30 am pst. Check out this video for a demo of some of the new features in Firefox 3.6.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/comingsoon/

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Is Rogue Anti-Virus Malicious or Should We Just Ignore Them

Looks like some people in the Avast forum are pissed that I pointed out that Avast missed a Rogue. Yes, I know Rogues are not technically malicious and are quite hard for an AV to detect, however I personally think that Rogue’s are the MOST malicious applications out there.
Rogue’s are designed to steal someones identity [...]

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Google Getting Hacked In China

There’s a few really great articles on Google getting hacked in China over at slashdot. I really hope that Google gets kicked out of China (leaving voluntarily would be a sign of weakness and thus lower the stock price).
Frankly, I’m really tired of the Chinese government constantly hacking anything related to the United States or [...]

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