Trojans and Mobile Viruses

Recycler Virus Removal Tool Disinfects PC/ USB from Recycler.exe

September 26, 2009

Recycler virus spreads mainly though removable medias like USB flash drives / pen drives,external HD’s or even iPods and mobile phone memory cards.These viruses exploit the autorun feature of windows and can be found in different names inside flash drives like recycler.exe, flashguard.exe, newfolder.exe and also create replicas using the same folder name which they [...]

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Prevent Autorun.inf file in USB Drives From Automatically Executing Virus

April 26, 2008

Nowadays the major cause of my system getting infected with virus is from the USB drives.When the USB drives are plugged into a computer previously infected with a virus then these viruses are automatically copied to the drives along with autorun.inf file.The virus  infects all executable files in my flash drive, then creates a hidden [...]

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Mobile phone trojans

September 23, 2006

Back in February this year we detected RedBrowser, the first Trojan for J2ME. RedBrowser is able to run on the vast majority of today’s handsets, i.e. those which support Java. The Trojan sends multiple SMSs to pay numbers without the user’s knowledge or consent. Naturally, this rapidly reduces the user’s account balance. Today a users [...]

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Crossplatform virus – the latest proof of concept

September 23, 2006

We’ve received a new sample: another cross platform virus. This sample is the latest attempt to create malicious code which will infect both Linux and Win32 systems. It’s therefore been given a double name: Virus.Linux.Bi.a/ Virus.Win32.Bi.a The virus is written in assembler and is relatively simple: it only infects files in the current directory. However, [...]

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Yahoo! News Hacked.

September 6, 2006

In a development that exposes grave risks of news manipulation in a time of crisis, a hacker demonstrated Tuesday that he could rewrite the text of Yahoo! News articles at will, apparently using nothing more than a web browser and an easily-obtained Internet address. Yahoo! News, which learned of the hack from SecurityFocus, says it [...]

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Vulnerability-New MS Word 0-day found!!

September 6, 2006

A new zero-day vulnerability that affects Microsoft Word 2000 has been discovered, along with a Trojan dropper that installs a backdoor on a user’s computer. Trojan.MDropper.Q was discovered by anti-virus giant Symantec, and takes advantage of a newly discovered vulnerability in Word 2000 to drop a variant of the Backdoor.Femo backdoor (note: SecurityFocus is owned [...]

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Is Windows Spying On You?

September 5, 2006

Microsoft makes no secret of the fact that its Windowssoftware is heavily pirated around the globe. Even so,the company did hide a tidbit about its WGA (WindowsGenuine Advantage) program, which Microsoft uses to confirmthat people are using legitimate copies of Windows XP. Since last year, Windows users have been required toinstall WGA in order to [...]

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