This Week's Top 10 Spyware Threats

July 14, 2009
Trojans come in a wide variety of malicious abilities. The Trojan.DNSChanger.Gen is a generic class of Trojans that reconfigures Domain Name Server settings on compromised machines. What this means is the reconfiguration ensures that network requests from those PCs are directed to servers and networ... [More]

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This Week's Top 10 Spyware Threats

June 30, 2009
Week to week when you look at our malicious top 10, you will notice that the majority of the top threats fall under the category of Trojan. We categorize Trojan as a type of malware that is installed under false or deceptive pretenses or is installed without the user's full knowledge and consent... [More]

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This Week's Top 10 Spyware Threats

June 23, 2009
So there you are happily working away at your computer and up pops an ad for medication that you never heard of, or worse porn. I imagine that would get you upset, I know it would bug the heck out of me. In a nutshell, that is how adware works. Hitting our Top 10 this week is the Favorit Network (no... [More]

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This Week's Top 10 Spyware Threats

June 16, 2009
Let's talk about exploits. As you can see below Exploit.PDF-JS.Gen, (v) has made our Malware Hit Parade. What is an exploit you may ask? Exploit derives from the French meaning achievement or accomplishment. It is a malicious software/application, which takes advantage of some bug or vulnerabili... [More]

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This Week's Top 10 Malware Threats

April 20, 2009
Yes folks, this is what we do - get rid of malicious threats to your PC. At the top of the heap is Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen. This malicious trojan program harvests confidential data off the user's system for fraudulent purposes. Does not sound very pleasant to me - get rid of it!Please be wary ... [More]

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