varius threats,30 december 2009

Beware of what appears to be an online statement by the credit card company Visa,this links to a web page which has the zbot banking trojan,alias zeus.

Email purporting to be about a lottery run by the south african football association is a fake and will ask for your bank details as well as processing fees which will see your bank balance cleaned out.

A trojan containing pictures of naked elves is being used to steal details of world of warcraft players.
The trojan shows aninated elves in  a state of undress,but it lifts usernames and passwords behind the scenes.

Be careful if you reeceive an email suppoosely from microsoft saying you need to update by clicking on a link,especially if your computer is on autromatic update(as my pc is),because microsoft never email security update.

Google warns about adsense-related scams

Google has warned that the following are scams claiming they can either help you earn at least $100 a week or improve your earnings.
earn google cash kit
Google adwork
google atm
google biz kit
google cash
google fortune
google marketing kit
google profits
google startup kits
google works
the home business kit for google

Paul's free adsense cash kit
build a good website and/or blog(You might do a better job than I am doing with my blogs) with quality content,try to make it the best website since adam was a lad.

https://google.com/adsense I think is correct web address to sign up to program(Although it might be best to start with building up a quality website or blog first)

various threats,19 december 2009

Cybercriminals are targeting internet users looking for videos of tiger woods' car crash.

NO SUCH VIDEO EXIST,but some search results are infected with a trojan that infects your computer and lets hackers converts your computer into a spam producing `bot'.

Emails that claim you have won the lottery and ask for `administration fees' or personal details to access the winnings are scams.

World of warcraft players are at risk of losing their virtual assets if they respond to emails with the subject line`do you like to find a girlriend like me?.
These emails contain a password-stealing trojan.

Her majesty's revenue and customs/HMRC(United kingdom)

Emails purporting to come from the inland revenue and customs are fake,because the inland revenue never sends tax refund notiications by email.

Oher emails claim you have underpaid and take you to a website where you download infected files.

Various threats;19 november 2009

Rogue programmes that claim  to automatically generate invites for the Google Wave trials,instead of geting you into the google wave trials,it will give criminals access to your email box.

Sexy photos emails from unknown female senders which semingly contain `sexy' photos,have poor grammar and clain to be send by `your sweet girl' contain trojan-style malware.

Bloglinker

Some bloggers have added this widget to their blog,this is actually malware

child porn virus

There is  supposed to be a virus that downloads child porn to your folders.

Various threats;7 november 2009

There are about 250 fake anti-virus or scareware on the internet.

Facebook like websites that offer to show you videos  are traps that  trick you into installing malware on your computer.

Emails that clain to link to a Cnn story about what really happened to the pentagon on 9/11 leads to a website that loads malware onto ones computer.

Cybercriminals are infecting search results with the Michael jackson song;THIS IS IT with malware.
It initiates a warning that tells you to update in order to see the video,only you will download malware

Fake employment websites

employeruk.com may  be such a site.

Do not include marital status,place of birth,date of birth, middle names or postal address.

Guardianjobs website

Sunday,24 october 2009,Guardian jobs website was hacked into.
I believe email addresses/passwords have been taken

various threats,23 october 2009

Some sites that have news about stephen gately's death are spreading rogueware that falsely claim you have a virus on your computer.

The keywords`emma stone nude' could lead you to malware infected pages that prompt false warning messages on one's computer

Trojan horses

Today ,my avg detected two trojan pws.banker infections.

Trojan horses are malware that infect your computer,possibly to find out your passwords etc

29 march 2010;discovered another trojan

Various threats;10 october 2009

There is a scam inviting surfers to play the monopoly board game online,surfers are redirected to a website,where their pc are prompted to download a trojan horse,when the trojan is activated on the victims' pcs, its links to another computer for more malware,that converts computer into in effect a botnet sending out spam promoting canadian pharmacy products.

Services that shorten urls are being used by cybercriminals to disguise links to malware-infected websites

Thousands of email logins/passwords posted online

Details of over 10,000 passwords for hotmail accounts beginning with A and B appeared on the internet over the weekend.

Possibly 250,000 account details of Gmail/googlemail,yahoo and aol users have been posted on the internet.

Users are advised to change their passwords.

Some people also use same password for paypal etc

Various threats;12 September 2009

Skype, a trojan exists that sents records of phone calls to a server where they can be heard.

Variants of 3 new fake anti-virus,Savekeep,savesoldier and trustninja have appeared.

Any software claining to be a mac-compatible version of Foxit, pdf-reading software is a virus.

World of witchcraft player should beware of a phishing scam that asks or your account name,password and email etc.

1in 6 search results for katie price aka jordan leads to malware.

Siniliar results also for jude law,victoria beckham,kate moss,david beckham,kerry katona and daniel ratcliffe

pharmaceuticals and drugs on Internet

90% of advertisers offering medicines on the Bing search engine are unlicensed.

Various threats;29 August 2009

There is an image-eating worm that destroys pictures stored on a computer's hard disk.

An offer to see nude pictures of the Twilight actress Ashley green should be passed over,because it leads ro a compromised website.

A trojan horse targeted at macs can change the DNS(Domain name server) settings iof infected computers.

It poses as the Maccinema Installer and prompts you to install an update in order to view video files,it alters the DNS settings to redirect you to malware infected websites.

Emails purporting to be from the HM revenue and customs(HMRC) contains a pdf asking for your bank details.

Football ticket touters websites

Such sites are illegal because it is against the law to deter hooligans.

A lot of tickets are also fraudulent.

Lists of websites infected with malware

http://www.malwareurl.com has almost 19,000 infected websites listed

Norton also has a list of infected websites.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/139./20090820/854/ttc-the-top-100-most-dangerous-websites.html

Various threats;15 August 2009

Malware mentioning the Swine Flu has been circulating.

Called Novel H1N1 Flu Situation Update.exe,it arrives in emails and poses as a word document.
If opened, it installes a keylogger in your computer system.

Adobe flash has a flaw that can be exploited by hackers.

Apple has released a patch to protect its iphone operating system against a flaw.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht37544

African websites slowed by computer viruses

It is estimated that 80% of computers in Africa are infected by computer viruses,trojan horses etc etc.

In May, the congress of south african trade unions found its websites was spreading vuruses to its visitors.

Pirated software often comes with viruses installed.

Some reckoned that linux is a better operating system to prevent viruses entering computers.

Personally ,I might avoid african websites.

Various hreats;21 july 2009

Mcafee has warned tthat if you search for the names of female tennis players such as serena williams and maria sharapova,you increase your chances of cyber-attacks .

The Koobface worm which targets facebook users, can now alter a computer's DNS registry,this means your pc can be rdirected to the wrong website(s),where it can be infected with malware.
the worm is now targeting twitter users.

Microsoft has warned of a flaw in internet explorer that means hackers could take control of your computer.

Michael jackson malware has been created.

Protecting your children online

There are various ways to protect your children online,such as some isps have childsafe web surfing.

Programmes can monitor your children's use.

net nanny 6.0
www.avanquest.com

spysure

webroot parental conrols
www.webroot.co.uk

Security concerns about some of Google services

Google Mail/gmail is not set to https because it is disabled by default.

To see how to turn on https in google, visit www.webuser.co.k/googletips

Vista Antivirus/Fakesecsen Fake anti-virus programme

This is another fake anti-virus programme.

Debt sale scams online

Some online firms are saying they can sell on your debt to a third person who can write off the whole amount.

A claimed loophole before April 2007 has yet to be tested.

Phishing emails

It may ask for details such as credit card number,security number etc etc

List of genuine anti-virus and anti-malware software etc

Because here are increasing numbers of fake anti-virus software, I will provide a list of what I believe to be genuine anti-virus software.

ad-aware free internet security
Search Amazon.com for ad-aware
agnitum outpost firewall free 2009
Search Amazon.com for agnitum
antivir

avast free antivirus
Search Amazon.com for avast!
AVG
Search Amazon.com for avg antivirus
AVIRA
Search Amazon.com for avira antivirus
cactus spam filter
Search Amazon.com for spam filter
clamav

comodo firewall
Search Amazon.com for comodo
comodo verification engine

emsistoft anti-malware

f-secure blacklight

hijack hunter

KASPERSKY
Search Amazon.com for kaspersky antivirus
mailwash free 6.5

MALWAREBYTES
Search Amazon.com for malwarebytes antivirus
MCAFEE
Search Amazon.com for mcafee antivirus
mcafee siteadvisor
Search Amazon.com for mcafee siteadvisor
microsoft security essentials
Search Amazon.com for microsoft security essentials
NORTON
Search Amazon.com for norton antivirus
novirusthanks
novirusthanks.org

online armor free



pc tools antivirus free edition 7.0
Search Amazon.com for pc tools antivirus
phishtank
Search Amazon.com for phishtank
sophos anti-rootkit
Search Amazon.com for anti-rootkit
spydllremover

spyshelter
can detect keyloggers

superantispyware portable
Search Amazon.com for superantispyware
thestubware 1.7

threatfire free

trend micro rubotted

trend micro titanium
Search Amazon.com for trend micro 2011
vtzilla firefox extension

web of trust

webroot
Search Amazon.com for webroot
zone  alarm
Search Amazon.com for zone alarm

ATM malware

Although not strictly an internet threat, there are malware in windows utilies that can affect atms,unlikely to be caught by virus checkers.

called Isass.exe malware

My computer was infected by malware

My computer went in for repairs on friday because itwas having problems(the person told me the problem was the monitor),he discovered malware on my computer and has installed a programme to remove malware.

Conficker worm

This worm can block the actions software designed to scan for its presence.

believed to have infected 3 million computers.

Every day,it searches for urls it can register, so computers visiting those websites can be infected.

Lately a spam programme called Waledac and a fake antivirus programme called Spyware Protect 2009 has been added on.

Microsoft have offered a £250,000 reward for information about the creators of this worm.

Malware warnings for mac owners

Mac owners should disable Java in Safari and Firefox web browsers, because of a flaw in the Mac operating system which leaves macs vulnerable to attacks when visiting malware infected web pages.

There are increasing levels of mac malware.

WINPC anti-virus

This programme is a rogue anti-virus programme.

Various sites can remove them.

Microsoft Window Updates

It is a good idea to install the security patches released by microsoft etc because lots of computers got hit by the conficker worm when they were not updated which was avaible 4 weeks before.

Anti-virus 2009

This is a rogue programme that claims to protect your computer.

ebaysucks.com and paypalsucks.com

These two wesites have come up as containing threats to computers.

Swine flu scams

Some scam artist have been offering swine flu vaccine, which doesn't exist.

Canadapharmacy and others, I understand, have been doing this.

They have also been malware involving pdf

MSN travel

I looked at msn travel at my day centre, and when I clicked on Majorca/mallorca etc, a warning by Avg that there was a trojan come up, believed to be ebookers.com.
website owners should do somehing about it