AVG Technologies formerly Grisoft has just released their latest AVG Anti-virus 8.0 and AVG Internet Security 8.0. AVG 8.0 comes with new enhanced features to protect computers from the recent trend of web-based malware attack executed by cyber criminals. In this new version 8.0, AVG integrated LinkScanner, a real-time safe searching and surfing technologies obtained from the acquisition of Exploit Prevention Labs.
Monthly Archive for February, 2008
Virus Heat is a rogue anti-spyware that misleads users into buying their fake anti-spyware program.
It has been a couple of weeks since the Virus Heat 3.9 hype around the internet. So, I downloaded the Virus Heat installer (vrh_setup.exe) off their official website and uploaded it to VirusTotal.com yesterday. The result? - only 4/32 anti-virus detected Virus Heat.
But the question here is how come there are only a handful of anti-virus vendors that flag Virus Heat as a rogue anti-spyware when they have even blogged about it?
Continue reading ‘Virus Heat penetrated 28 out of 32 anti-virus’
F-Secure is among the leaders in computer security for home and business users since 1988. In 2007, F-Secure was among the first security vendor to introduce Host Based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) technology in their product line. Today, we will be reviewing F-Secure Anti-virus 2008 after a month of experiencing it.
Continue reading ‘F-Secure Anti-virus 2008 Review’
The Register reported that several legitimate websites are serving malicious banner advertisement of Cleanator. Cleanator is a rogue spyware posing as as a tool to clean temporary files. Websites that were spot to have this banner are ITV, Radio Times, MSN UK, and UK Press Gazzette.
“Don’t download Cleanator - rogue spyware”
Websense(R) Security Labs(TM) reported on their security blog about a trojan keylogger that is specifically aim at Habbo users. The infected file name ProRig.V9.exe disguised as a Habbo developer tool. Those who downloaded this tool can expect spywares crawling on their desktop if there is no proper virus protection. Up till now, the tool is still available for download on Habbo-soft.com. Below is the result from F-Secure Anti-virus which detected ProRig.V9.exe as Trojan-Spy.Win32.SCKeyLog.ap:
Update: A little more in-depth details at Symantec blog , Keylogging at the Habbo Hotel.
