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Safe Terminal
Downloads If Safari "Open safe files after download" is enabled, its possible to create malicious shell scripts that will be executed by the Terminal automatically after you download them. It is also possible to create malicious shell scripts that look like...
[February 26, 2006, 7:00]
FileDefense
Downloads It is a set of programs that provide an easy interface to locking down files and making sure that unwanted access is not given to malicious scripts, applications and services on the your computer. To this end FileDefense provides security second to...
[May 23, 2008, 13:39]
Porn Trojan exploits old Microsoft hole
News This same vulnerability allows other, more malicious scripts to do a lot more damage. A patch for the hole was released by Microsoft at the end of October 2000, but other holes have since appeared in Internet Explorer that let other types of...
[January 4, 2002, 12:43]
'Gumblar' web attacks spreading quickly
News Then, in early May, as website operators began to clean up their sites, the attackers replaced the original malicious code with dynamically generated and heavily obfuscated JavaScript, meaning that the scripts change from page to page and are...
[May 19, 2009, 11:14]
PHP virus sparks debate
News In order to activate PHP.NewWorld a user would need to have PHP installed on a Windows machine and have been granted permissions to run PHP scripts. Eric Chien, chief researcher at Symantec's Antivirus Research Centre (SARC), says that the danger...
[January 8, 2001, 10:10]
Google toolbar exposes PCs to attack
News GreyMagic's exploits centre around the fact that the toolbar uses simple URLs to control the software's features or execute scripts. changes here)", and scripts can be executed at "http://toolbar.google.com/command?
[August 9, 2002, 11:26]
Norton AV flaw may put PCs at risk of virus attack
News The VBS scripts described can only be successfully run on the target system with administrator rights," the spokesperson said. In the movie, which has been seen by ZDNet Australia , Milisic demonstrates how running his scripts can infect an...
[November 9, 2004, 9:28]
MS warns of script attacks for some Outlook users
News Users editing or creating email in rich text or HTML formats with the Word option could be vulnerable to harmful scripts sent from malicious users. Users who only read their email via Word are not vulnerable; HTML email in Outlook uses Internet...
[April 29, 2002, 9:48]
IISGuard
Downloads IISGuard improves the uptime of your server by eliminating problematic sites/scripts, detecting malicious clients and helping you improve the performance of IIS. Now you can easily see all requests that are made to your IIS Web server and find the...
[November 9, 2005, 2:12]
IISGuard
Downloads IISGuard improves the uptime of your server by eliminating problematic sites/scripts, detecting malicious clients and helping you improve the performance of IIS. Now you can easily see all requests that are made to your IIS web server and find the...
[February 3, 2006, 7:00]
'Survivor' site contains malicious code
News The site, owned by a party that has licensed the word "survivor" in a top-level US domain -- not linked to the television network -- today contained a smorgasbord of malicious code embedded in HTML scripts.
[May 13, 2004, 10:35]
ShadowIRC
Downloads Can I use my Ircle scripts? This makes ShadowIRC plugins much faster and much more flexible than Ircle's AppleScript-based scripts. ShadowIRC plugins are fundamentally different from Ircle scripts, and are NOT compatible.
[November 21, 2001, 7:00]
Reducing Security Administration Time by 60 Percent for More Efficient City Government With Symantec and Novacoast
White Papers The IT staff worked 24-hour days, creating scripts and batch files to respond to new threats. Results include a 60 percent reduction in security administration time spent on software distribution and an end to disruptions from malicious code.
[January 18, 2008, 0:01]
Flaw lets malicious Web pages attack Windows
News Email clients and Internet browsers that don't allow scripts to be run will block the attack, Mulholland said. A vulnerability in all versions of Windows could allow attackers to use a malicious Web site or HTML email message to trap victims and...
[March 20, 2003, 8:21]
Internet Explorer 8 to get anti-malware protection
News The features are designed to combat the rising tide of drive-by downloads and malicious scripts contained within carefully crafted links embedded in email and web pages. IE8 Beta 2 will have a cross-site scripting (XSS) filter, preventing scripts...
[July 3, 2008, 10:44]
Multiple Firefox flaws patched
News Latter said another issue could allow malicious scripts to gain access to random pieces of memory. Multiple vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to install malicious code or steal personal data have been discovered in the Mozilla Suite and...
[April 18, 2005, 17:40]
Firefox phishing vulnerability discovered
Talkback For those window injected scripts, one can also mistakenly download forcibly malicious scripts as well, which in most cases, are going to directly affect your Windows OS, and not your Linux OS. Firefox without a doubt, is the best and most secure...
[January 7, 2005, 1:56]
Intel bug may affect Internet PCs
News Smaller Internet providers that use Pentium-based systems may be most vulnerable, as the bug would allow malicious use of CGI scripts on users Web pages. The bug allegedly allows malicious programs to be run on networked computers with open access...
[November 10, 1997, 11:25]
Proof-of-concept malware targets Windows PowerShell
News Instead, it abuses the product's ability to execute scripts, by attempting to trick users into downloading and running malicious code. Virus writers in Austria have reportedly developed malicious code that targets Windows PowerShell, the command...
[August 1, 2006, 17:40]
Zeus 4.0 cashes in on Microsoft security fears
News Nimda and Code Red used malicious scripts to attack IIS servers. What the company came up with is an application that runs on Zeus 4.0 to receive proxy requests, which it scans for malicious or malformed code before passing them on to the IIS servers.
[October 17, 2001, 12:20]
