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Virus Is Disguised As MSN Messenger Beta
Talkback Redundant? Products from MS are often security holes masquerading as useful applications. MSN Messenger is no exception.
[December 29, 2005, 11:35]
Latest Trojan Is Disguised As Security Warning
Talkback You mean lastest *MS* trojan, don.t you? Nowhere in the article does it say that it affects other systems than MS systems. Please help the situation get better by at least mentioning which general categories of systems are affected and which are not.
[April 29, 2005, 7:54]
Melissa-X Disguised As Mac Doc
News Computer virus experts say a new variant of the Melissa virus is spreading, this time in the guise of a Macintosh-formatted Microsoft Office document. Vincent Gullotto, director of Network Associates' McAfee antivirus emergency research team, said...
[January 19, 2001, 7:33]
Latest Trojan Is Disguised As Security Warning
News As the Infosecurity Europe exhibition wound down on Thursday, security experts warned that virus writers have been busy distributing bogus security programs on the Internet. According to antivirus company Sophos, a Trojan horse dubbed 'fakespy' was...
[April 28, 2005, 18:00]
Virus Is Disguised As MSN Messenger Beta
News A virus masquerading as a new beta version of Microsoft's MSN Messenger has begun circulating, antivirus company F-Secure said on its blog on Tuesday. The virus, which F-Secure calls Virkel.F, comes as a file called BETA8WEBINSTALL.EXE that can be...
[December 28, 2005, 8:45]
Is Your Boss A Secret Bond?
Blog Bug-detectors disguised as fountain pens, keyboards that can secretly record everything typed on them and clock radios with hidden cameras - devices once only of interest to spies are now being bought by company chiefs that fear they are being...
[November 17, 2006, 10:04]
Spammers Hide Behind A Friendly Face
News In one of the latest marketing gimmicks circulating the Net, the sender comes disguised as a corporate network administrator with the subject line: "Your mailbox is over its size limit. Linford said that about 100 spammers produce nearly 90 percent...
[April 15, 2002, 11:32]
Consultants Await Latest IR35 Tax Ruling
News The case is an appeal by IT consultant Gordon Stutchbury against a decision of tax commissioners that he was a "disguised employee" of one of his clients and therefore subject to the controversial IR35 tax.
[March 5, 2003, 12:01]
UK Users Targeted By Banking Trojan
News The unrelated malicious programs, reported this week by security companies, represent new twists thought up by hackers in their development of Trojans, which are harmful programs disguised to look like innocent software.
[March 27, 2006, 9:05]
Time Computers Denies Tales Of Woe
Talkback Shockingly Tiny disguised its losses by telling staff that profits were lower as the cost of advertising and marketing had increased. However this figure disguised the huge losses they were incurring and the gross strategic errors they were making.
[July 28, 2005, 3:34]
Linux Under Threat From 'security Update'
News Windows users have been successfully targeted a number of times with malware disguised as a fake 'security update'. One of the most successful worms of 2003, Swen or Gibe.F, was disguised as a Microsoft patch to fix a flaw in Internet Explorer.
[October 25, 2004, 10:45]
New Tool Camouflages Hacker Programs
News However, many intrusion-detection systems don't remove the corrupted data, so the hostile command remains disguised from the system's recognition functions. In one version of such "insertion" attacks, a command sent to a server could be disguised...
[April 22, 2002, 9:11]
Tech Project Sweeps For Net Scammers
News Scams that are run through Web sites tend to use certain words, in certain ways, with certain characteristics --- but they can be cleverly disguised as well," Patrick said. He said he and colleagues specialising in linguistics were using new...
[February 3, 2003, 11:51]
Anna Kournikova Virus Targets UK Firms
News Antivirus vendors in Europe report receiving numerous alerts at UK companies about a virus disguised as a picture file showing tennis player Anna Kournikova. The virus comes in an email with the subject "Here you have :o)".
[February 12, 2001, 17:05]
PestPatrol: Total Cost Of Ownership
White Papers Pests often are disguised as benign software or users unknowingly download Pests that accompany other downloaded files or software. The challenge for IT managers is how to keep Pests off their networks.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 1/12/2003The government campaign to promote Bluetooth -- cunningly disguised as a law against handheld mobiles in cars -- is well underway, with eight drivers in Scotland feeling the long arm of the law stretch out from under the stark...
[December 5, 2003, 16:30]
VBrick And Cisco IP/TV White Paper
White Papers VBricks are fully embedded video network appliances -- (not a PC with an video card and a network adapter disguised as a product) that enables one-way and two-way DVD-quality MPEG Video over your network.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
RogueRemover PRO
Downloads These programs are disguised, for instance, as trustworthy anti-spyware programs or registry cleaners. Computer users worldwide are being targeted by so-called rogue applications. But they are only put on the market to scare you into buying these...
[December 12, 2007, 11:31]
Beware The 'Happy New Year' Worm
News An email worm disguised as a New Year's greeting is making the rounds on the internet. Worm-laden messages are titled "Happy New Year" and contain an attachment called either postcard.exe or postcard.zip, according to experts at VeriSign's iDefense...
[January 2, 2007, 7:57]
Bug Hunters Find 'cookie' Hole In IE
News Computer bug-hunters have pointed out a way to snare personal information from a "cookie" file if the victim uses Microsoft Internet Explorer and clicks on a disguised string of JavaScript code. Microsoft said it was working on a patch for the...
[May 12, 2000, 8:39]
