Posts Tagged ‘ malicious program ’

Malware in November: drive-by downloads and fake archives

Dec 4th, 2010 | By

By far the biggest threat to users in November was drive-by downloads, attacks that result in malware being downloaded to users’ computers when they visit infected sites. Here’s a brief overview of how these attacks infect computers. First of all, a user visits an infected site that contains a redirect script. The redirect leads to
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Kaspersky Lab acknowledges a false positive returned by its products for a number of Internet resources with Google contextual advertising

Jan 25th, 2010 | By

An incorrect signature was added to the company’s antivirus databases on 25 January at 07:00 Moscow time (GMT+3). As a result, Kaspersky Lab products erroneously blocked some legitimate websites containing the link on script http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js, which is used in the contextual advertising system Google AdSense. When users visited an affected web resource, a message was
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