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Last Update: Thu May 22 22:06:50 2008 | | + Zango's adware fox desperate to guard net henhouse +
'Kaspersky's got nothin' on us' Comment Zango, creator of Hotbar, Seekmo Search Assistant and other adware programs of dubious [...] illegally interfered with its business after being laughed out of just about every court where it's pursued such actions.… |
| + Storm Worms exploit April Fools +
Lazy attack aims to dupe the credulous The miscreants behind the Storm Worm botnet have taken advantage of April Fools' day in a ... |
| + Orkut worm feeds on scraps +
From social networking to social engineering Malware authors have written a worm for Orkut, Google-owned networking site that's ... |
| + Virus writers charged with copyright violation +
Movie-munching Trojan miscreants go all Winny Japan has arrested its first suspected virus writers, but in a strange twist the [...] of P2P malware have been charged with copyright violation, in an arrest that recalls Al Capone's prosecution for tax evasion.… |
| + Anti-virus protection gets worse +
What is this thing you call heuristics? Antivirus software is getting worse at protecting users from new threats, according to ... |
| + Grisoft acquires LinkScanner +
'Antivirus is dead' Grisoft is to acquire Exploit Prevention Labs, a maker of software that gauges the safety of websites before ... |
| + Trojan spreads using PI wiretapping scare +
The Simple Art of Malware Miscreants are trying to convince email users that their telephone conversations are being recorded in [...] marks into buying bogus security software. Emails promoting the campaign are laced with a new Trojan horse malware.… |
| + Guessing at compromised host numbers +
The fine art of pulling numbers from your nether regions After much waiting by end users, and a lot of hoping from interested [...] 11th, included detection for this malicious software, and the early results are not quite what most people were expecting.… |
| + Trojans besiege online gamers +
It's warcraft out there Online games have become a major target for fraud in recent years. A study from Kaspersky Labs, published [...] targets used by hackers to make "easy money" by selling stolen login credentials of users or in-game items on the black market.… |
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