Sunday, 28 August 2011

Pictures on internet being used to spread malware.

This might be a bit late to post about this, but about May 2011, I believe there was a peak  of malware infested pictures back then.
Hackers  install monitoring programme on legitimate websites that monitor google trends for top keywords, then add content relevant to current affairs that will be crawled by internet bots, say libya, al-qaeda or the latest hurricane,`poisoned pictures' relating to the latest current affairs say Colonel Gaddhafi, Bin Laden or hurricane Irene then appear in google images or where ever which  online picture library they use.
These `poisoned pictures' redirect you to either fake antivirus websites or to websites that download malware to your computer.

`Poisoned pictures' can  also be of things such as electriconics and computer related items.

Slightly off topic, I think I know what will be next, but won't say(don't want to give hackers any ideas!)

Monday, 4 April 2011

Mystery shopper scams

There are warnings that the uk mystery shopper/shopping employment agency is a scam.
There are other mystery shopping/shopper scams out there on the internet.

Monday, 28 February 2011

419 scams and suchlike

I received in my hotmail junk folder  today(28 february 2011)an email from someone in Burkino Faso saying there was money from the bank account of a deceased person which I could access,if I pretended to be a relative.
Similiar emails from ivory coast prior.
Search Amazon.com for 419 scam
Search Amazon.com for nigerian scam

Check your online receipts

You should check  the amount you spend with online retailers because there have been cases of discreprancies such as with asda supermarket,the sums on the receipts didn't add up right.
(they say they added on different items,hence the disprecancy)(sp?)

Friday, 24 December 2010

Malwarebytes anti-malware/mbam.exe

My AVG anti-virus free edition 2011 says this is a trojan horse back door,I am not sure if this false alarm or genuine,but the avg won't allow me to run this if I try to download the programme as it says this is a trojan.
(Someone has told me it is a false positive,I have also written an email to avg.com)

I wonder if MM are aware of the problem.

Monday, 1 November 2010

Ebay scams

Some mp4/mp3 players from china sold on ebay as having 32gb actually only have 2 gb of memory.

Some Memory sticks/devices also  don't have the memory advertised.

Sunday, 3 October 2010

internet threats and warnings;3 october 2010

There are scam websites that ask you to pay for supposedly updated version of skype that ask for payment,instead visit http://www.skype.com/ for a free download.
Search Amazon.com for skype
Don't click on links claiming to be from friends leading to adult movies  because it will lead to malware.