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Microsoft Releases 3 Critical Updates for June, Fake Amazon Confirmations and More…

Microsoft has released 3 Critical Updates that should be applied immediately:

MS12-036 - Affects remote desktop.  This sucks for me.  Looks like I’ve got some servers to patch.

MS12-037 - Very nasty bug that affects all versions of Internet Explorer.  Just visiting a page targeting this bug is enough to get infected by malware since the attacker will have the same rights as the visitor (which is usually an administrator)

MS12-038 - Pretty much the same as 037, however it requires a browser that can run XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs)

Amazon Fake Emails…

Watch out for fake Amazon emails with subjects like – “ Your Amazon.com order confirmation. ”  Clicking on links in those email lead to sites hosting malware / exploits.  Here’s a sample that hit our barracuda spam filter:

fake amazon emails

Comodo offers free antivirus for your Mac…

Ok, while there isn’t a lot of threats out there for OSX it does seem like I hear about a new MAC AntiVirus every week.  Comodo’s Mac Antivirus offers real-time on access protection as well as automatic updates.  To download or read more about Comodo Antivirus for MAC click here.

 

  • Bubba

    thanks for this. Any word on that AVG Review video?

    if you didn’t see my other coment on a different post I cleaned a computer with UBCD for the first time.

  • mrizos

    I worked on part 2 of 4 last night. If I don’t have any appointments tonight I’ll be working on parts 3 and 4.

    • Bubba

      Lookin Forward to it. They say AVG is getting better do you agree?

      • mrizos

        Hard to say at this point. We’ll talk more after I upload this review.

        • Bubba

          When you say “We’ll talk more after” do you know we will talk after I watched the review on Youtube?

  • mrizos

    Finished part 3 (the AVG Rescue Part). Part 4 (prevention) was just too boring. I’m going to redo it tomorrow (this time I’ll be using Malc0de’s list or URL’s).

    • Bubba

      what is Malcode?

      • mrizos

        It’s a database of malware that gets updated daily. My only gripe with it is that they don’t label the malware and there are too many PUPs.

        • Bubba

          Alright thanks.

  • 12345shre

    matt,malc0de contains a lot of non-malware links…so only touch the ones that look like malware

    • mrizos

      Yeah, I noticed. It sucks. I’m looking for a reliable source of zero day links. It makes doing my prevention reviews