| Adware - Spyware : RealPlayer Installs Badware |
| Posted by Max on 2008/2/8 16:00:00 (851 reads) |

According to StopBadware.org, the latest version of RealPlayer is tricking the users installing, once with it, the Rhapsody Player Engine required to access RealNetwork's online music service. The problem appears when Rhapsody Player Engine can’t be removed, even if you uninstall the RealPlayer. |
|
| Adware - Spyware : Mega-D Botnet Grows Stronger ; Storm Botnet hit by Microsoft |
| Posted by Max on 2008/2/6 14:39:18 (750 reads) |

As SCMagazine informs us, a new threat has emerged in the spam world. Apparently, it’s dressed up like a new botnet spamming male sexual enhancement pill advertisings and has already managed to surpass the infamous Storm worm botnet which had been considered so far the ‘largest single source of the world’s spam’. |
|
| Adware - Spyware : Meet Beselo, A nasty Nokia Symbian Worm |
| Posted by Max on 2008/1/30 14:20:42 (1107 reads) |

New face in town: the Beselo worm. It targets Nokia smartphones. The security firms, among which SMobile Systems, are worried and are trying to develop a disinfection device.On its blog, F-Secure, an anti-virus supplier, posted a warning concerning the virus. Smartphones running the Symbian S60 Second Edition operating system are the affected one. |
|
| Adware - Spyware : Storm Malware Still Hitting Hard |
| Posted by Max on 2008/1/30 13:06:59 (640 reads) |

It looks like the Storm worm has been a great success. This is the official opinion of the 2007 Global Threat Report from security firm ESET.The social engineering tactics used over the past 12 months and the duration of the methods represented the concern of the report. |
|
| Adware - Spyware : New Storm Worm Exploits Valentine's Day |
| Posted by Max on 2008/1/17 1:23:24 (855 reads) |

US-CERT has received reports of new Storm Worm activity circulating. The emails contain romantic or Valentine's Day greetings and provide links for users to click on. The links are in the form of actual IP addresses, such as http:/x.x.x.x, although actual domain names may also be used. If a user clicks on the link provided, they will be directed to a malicious website that will attempt to exploit a variety of vulnerabilities and install malware onto the user's system. |
|
| Adware - Spyware : Mebroot Virus Steals Banking Details |
| Posted by Max on 2008/1/16 2:02:55 (1034 reads) |

Important information came from London: the internet users are advised to watch out for Mebroot - a sneaky Windows virus that is capable to steal, for online bank accounts, login details.The period between 12 December and 7 January was ill-fated, especially for those in Europe: almost 5,000 computers were infected by the nasty program. |
|
| Adware - Spyware : Bzub Spyware is the New Annoyance |
| Posted by Max on 2008/1/14 13:54:57 (834 reads) |

Bzub is an extremely versatile spyware created to steal banking information.It seems that it originated in Mother Russia to be rapidly spread afterwards all over the world hence gaining various applications. It targets those using Windows XP, 2000, 2003. |
|
| Adware - Spyware : Facebook Drops Secret Crush Spyware |
| Posted by Max on 2008/1/9 12:18:30 (1037 reads) |

After hearing about the association between the "Secret Crush" application and an important spyware producer, Facebook disqualified it.
According to official information, the separation is definite: "Facebook is committed to user safety and security and, to that end, its Terms of Service for developers explicitly state that applications should not use adware and spyware". They also declared that the Facebook Platform Terms of Service had been breached so they stopped the Secret Crush application.
|
|
| Adware - Spyware : Rootkits Still Dominate the Security Threats |
| Posted by Max on 2007/12/17 1:29:26 (849 reads) |

As PCWorld stated, Prevx malware researchers have drawn attention to the dramatic increase in the number of PCs harboring rootkit infections.
During a two-month period research, the Prevx CSI malware scanner was used to scan over 725,000 PCs. One in six PCs scanned within October 2007 was infected with some form of spyware or malware . |
|
| Adware - Spyware : Why Malware is More Lucrative Than Spam |
| Posted by Max on 2007/12/7 13:40:13 (841 reads) |

Recent studies have showed great increase in global spam volumes over the last year, pointing to a switch from selling products towards spreading malware.
The 2008 Internet Security Trends Report from IronPort Systems gives a rather alarming estimation that 98 per cent of all email traffic is now spam. |
|
|