Monthly Archives: April 2010
Zeus Banking Trojan now targets Firefox as well as IE
In the multitude of trojans spreaded in the wild these days, a special category named banking trojans as Zeus, Bzub or Torpig deserves the name of the most dangerous trojans for online banking transactions. The most known and scaring is Zeus and his features include a Polymorphic Engine which make it able to re-encrypt itself each time he infects a computer, as a consequence the common detection methods based on virus binary signature are not for any help–each time the trojan has another signature. It’s true the Zeus trojan is around from 2005 year, but now he has new and scaring features. Until now, the trojan was able to hook …
General rules for preventing computer infections
-Always use an advanced security solution for your PC which must include at least a good AntiVirus, a good firewall and a Spam Filter; -Always update your Operating System, your Antivirus and your browser–very often the updates patch some vulnerabilities. -Never open an email received from an unknown person, or strange emails with strange subjects. Never run executables received by email attachements, even if it’s sent by a friend. His computer can be infected by a virus which read his Contacts entries saved in the computer or his emails from the Inbox and can send infected emails to all his contacts. And never ever reply to an email received from …
Encryption software – Secure your data
TrueCrypt The so-called “on-the-fly” encryption, is a method for encrypting and decrypting the files in RAM memory and only when them are used, as a result all the files on your encrypted partition or drive are permanently encrypted with an algorithm at your choice : AES-256, Serpent or Twofish. Can be used for any partition on your hard disk or for a storage device like an USB flash drive. It can creates a hidden volume or hidden Operating System that nobody knows it exists on your hard disk, it is created in the free space within another TrueCrypt volume for example but without modify the information about the free …
Run SandBoxed
This little application–Sandboxie– create a virtual environment(think at virtualization provided by VMware) in your PC, where you can run your browser, install an applications or run an executable without to makes permanent changes on your harddisk. The programs are able to run normally because they have read access to any file in your PC, only writing procedure is intercepted by Sandboxie and redirected in a safe place on harddisk in a sandbox. No real files, folders or registries are affected by the running programs in Sandboxie. When you empty the sandbox or you shutdown the computer all the sandbox content is deleted including that temporary files from sandbox. If you …
