http://www.spywarenews.org Spyware, Adware and Virus Alert - Computer Security Thu, 15 May 2008 04:41:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Spam king Sanford Wallace and phishing buddy Walter Rines hijacked some 300,000 MySpace accounts and sent hundreds of thousands of spam messages and comments across the service. They got their punishment: a whopping $225 million judgment in favor of MySpace, Information Week reports. MySpace decided to sue when it discovered the ... http://www.spywarenews.org/2008/05/myspace-wins-230-million-from-spam-king-sanford-wallace/ W32/MSNworm.EI.worm, which spreads via the MSN Messenger and displays a funny picture of a little pig sending you a kiss while it is infecting your computer. MSNworm.EI is a worm whose main objective is to spread and affect as many computers as possible. The means it uses to spread is the ... http://www.spywarenews.org/2008/05/worms-spread-via-msn-messenger-w32msnwormeiworm/ You've taken this course in internet safety and learnt all that there is to learn about how to avoid viruses and worms. You have installed advanced virus scanners, so nothing can pass through your email program and infect your Operating System, nor be downloaded from the internet or from a ... http://www.spywarenews.org/2008/05/instant-messaging-im-worms-get-the-facts/ The scams rely on a technique known as social engineering to trick computer users into divulging personal information that the cybercriminals or their customers can use to bilk unwary taxpayers. The new phishing scams use spam e-mails to gull prospective refund recipients into providing their bank account information and other personally ... http://www.spywarenews.org/2008/05/us-tax-rebates-phishing-scam/ Panda Labs posted a report about a string of Phishing kits discovered recently, which unlike some of their better known counterparts are free to use. The news is not groundbreaking, but it does serve as a reminder that nowadays anyone can get in to the act of performing criminal activities ... http://www.spywarenews.org/2008/05/phishing-and-scampages-kits/ Sometimes even the most protective phalanx of antivirus, antispyware and antiphishing programs is not enough to shield a computer from online dangers. Check Point Software's ZoneAlarm ForceField provides an extra defensive layer by cloning your Web browser to catch dangerous software before any damage can be done. Rather than providing a ... http://www.spywarenews.org/2008/05/zonealarm-forcefield-clones-your-web-browser-to-help-prevent-damage/ A new type of spam focuses on consumers' frustrations with high gas prices, according to McAfee Avert Labs. The emails begin by complaining about the rising cost of gas and then direct the reader to a website, with the promise the “product” will save the user 70 cents per gallon. ... http://www.spywarenews.org/2008/05/gasoline-spam-hits-inboxes/ Zango is an adware which monitors the web sites and URLs that you visit, and generates popup adverstiments every few minutes. Instruction to remove Zango from your pc 1. Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs 2. Find Zango on the list 4. Click the Change/Remove button 5. Check ... http://www.spywarenews.org/2008/05/zango-removal-instruction-spyware-alert/ Since Vista's release last year, Microsoft has hailed the operating system's security features. Some have even claimed the operating systems would make anti-virus software obsolete. PC Tools took that opportunity to examine Microsoft’s claims, and conducted research over six months with 1.5 million of its customers using its ThreatFire Anti-Virus ... http://www.spywarenews.org/2008/05/microsoft-overestimated-windows-vista-security/ A new contest running at the DefCon hacker conference this year (held in Las Vegas in August) is already stirring up controversy. It will challenge hackers to design malware that can't be detected by anti-virus programs such as ones offered by Symantec and McAfee. The contest is dubbed Race to Zero, ... http://www.spywarenews.org/2008/05/defcon-contest-defeat-anti-virus-programs/