Yet another rogue spyware program on the loose, this time named “Virus Trigger 2009″. One thing I noticed about this program, is that the website looks quite professional and appears in the number 1 spot in google when you search for keyword “Virus Trigger 2009″. Nasty huh. Time...

Yet another nasty rogue anti-spyware program is amongst us, this time named “Ultra Antivirus 2009″. I managed to get this baby loaded on my test machine and boy did I let her rip! Ultra Antivirus 2009 pretends to be a “Anti-Spyware” program, often tricking users into thinking...

So a friend of mine had a virus called “Win32/Heur”. According to research, the Win32 Heur virus spreads via peer to peer programs such as iMesh, WinMX, Ares and torrents. This virus is nasty for a few reasons; It actually records your browsing activities and displays advertisements to you...

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of installing and configuring a VPN link between an outdated Linux box and a Sonicwall TZ170. Oh the joys I had in getting this to work .. The Sonicwall device was located in a data center, whilst the Linux machine was located in an office protecting a 192.168.0.0/24...

The latest edition in rogue antispyware programs, MS AntiVirus – looks and feels like a regular antispyware application, but in fact – deadly as hell. For those that don’t know, a “Rogue Anti-Spyware” program is a fairly new form of threat that entices users to download...

If you’ve been experiencing a pop up from Trend stating something about a “possible HIFRM”, then no fear – we can tell you how to get rid of this annoyance! 1) Click the Start menu and select Control Panel 2) Double click Internet Options 3) Under the General tab click the Delete...

If you’ve managed to attract the known trojan VirtuMonde – then you’re in trouble. This nasty trojan is known to act as a rogue antispyware program, showing advertisments and popups on your machine. Not only will it make your machine run slow, but also is known to perform denial of...

Weird popups? Porn? Messages advising you to purchase products? Internet Explorer homepage keep changing? Did you wallpaper disappear? System running slow? All of the above are symptoms of spyware, which may have been introduced to your machine via various methods – which include activeX downloads...

The W32/Spar virus is a nasty little thing that often is found imbedded in files you may have downloaded through P2P programs such as Kazaa and Limewire. You may find an annoying popup which states; Patch applied succesfully! If your software is still trial maybe you need to install it before patch...

If you’ve been unlucky to install AntiMalware Guard, then you might have some difficulty in removing it. AntiMalware Guard poses as a fake anti-spamware program and is designed to show FALSE spyware results. To kill and remove AntiMalware, you are going to do a little digging – so lets get...

A few weeks ago, Dan Kaminsky published information about a flaw in the DNS protocol that could allow attackers to compromise DNS records. “We worked with vendors on a coordinated patch,” said Kaminsky, noting this is the first time such a coordinated multi-vendor synchronized patch release...

A common preconception about network security is that as long as the firewall is working and preventing all unauthorized access to internal devices (that’s incoming traffic) – then the firewall is doing its job. However this often isn’t the case and a number of recent attacks have proved...