Security
Jailbraking your iPhone may get your PC into Trouble
An application that offers to unlock iPhones is actually designed to hijack internet connections on compromised Windows PCs, security watchers warn.
Spam messages direct potential victims to a website that offers links to download a Windows executable called blackra1n.exe. The application claims to offer an unlock utility but instead it changes default DNS settings on infected
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- McAfee, Inc. to Acquire tenCube; To Deliver Next Generation Mobility Platform
- McAfee, Inc. Reports Results for the Second Quarter of 2010
- BitDefender Warns iPhone Jailbreaking: Legal, but Dangerous
- Spam in the second quarter of 2010: massive attacks using fake notifications from social networks
- Polycom and McAfee Alliance to Further Secure Unified Communications and Collaboration
- Exploits for .LNK vulnerability are growing fast
- BitDefender Announces Revamped Channel Program
Security
Top 10 recommendations to keep your computer secured
The web is flooded with ideas for protecting Windows computers against viruses. Even with scores of ideas to prevent virus it’s difficult to avert the new types of online attacks. Viruses remain the most common type of threat, but hackers today use vicious multi-layered attacks, such as worms in instant message that are linked
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Best Practice – Eliminate 64% of Risks
Do you really need administrator privileges?
Los Angeles security firm BeyondTrust has released an analysis of Microsoft’s 75 security bulletins last year. They came to the startling conclusion that if users had operated their computers without administrative rights they would have eliminated 64 percent of their risk from Microsoft vulnerabilities!
By examining all of the published Microsoft
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How to recover from Trojan.FakeAlert.5 false positive – Windows Vista
False Positive on Vista X64
Due to a recent update for Windows 64-bit systems it is possible that BitDefender detects several Windows and BitDefender files as infected with Trojan.FakeAlert.5 .
If you are able to log on to Windows but BitDefender is not working please follow these steps:
1.Save this patch and run it on your PC:
How to recover from Trojan.FakeAlert.5 false positive – Windows 7
If you are able to log on to Windows but BitDefender is not working please follow these steps:
1. Save this patch and run it on your PC:
If you are using BitDefender 2010 click here
If you are using BitDefender 2009 click here
2. Reboot your PC and perform a BitDefender update to make sure you have the
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Avira
Avira warns of Windows vulnerabilityCyber criminals abuse an open security vulnerability in all Windows versions to inject malware into PCs
Tettnang, 21 July 2010 – In Windows operating systems there is currently a vulnerability which attackers can abuse to smuggle in viruses. It suffices to open a specially prepared USB stick or a folder containing a manipulated link with Windows
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BitDefender
BitDefender Warns iPhone Jailbreaking: Legal, but DangerousOwners of iPhones are one step closer to taking total control of their widgets, after the U.S. Copyright Office announced the practice of “jailbreaking” legal, on Monday, July 26th. Now, anyone can jailbreak or unlock any cell phone without fear of legal repercussions. BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative internet security solutions, is today advising
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Eset
ESET Again Named to Inc. 500 List of Fastest-Growing Private CompaniesSAN DIEGO, September 19, 2008 — ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced that Inc. magazine has ranked it among the fastest-growing private companies for the second consecutive year. Distinguished as No. 306 of 5000 organizations, ESET grew at an impressive rate of 915 percent, ranking fifth in the top security companies and
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Kaspersky
Spam in the second quarter of 2010: massive attacks using fake notifications from social networksKaspersky Lab announces the publication of its spam report for the second quarter of 2010. According to the report, one of the most significant events in the last quarter was an unprecedentedly large mass mailing that used HTML-based threats in the form of emails disguised as legitimate notifications from social networks.
An email was distributed that
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Norman
Exploits for .LNK vulnerability are growing fastEarlier this month “VirusBlokAda” reported about StuxNet, the first exploit using the .LNK vulnerability (Windows Shortcut) in all of Microsoft operating systems.
Malware may compromise any Windows operating system by exploiting the way file managers, (also 3rd party file managers like Total Commander), displays icons. Specially crafted shortcuts use this vulnerability to execute malware.
W32/Stuxnet was the
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