Monthly Archives: January 2011
Trojan Bohu, the first attack against the cloud antivirus system
When it appears for the first time in 2009, the concept of an antivirus software using the cloud computing, seemed to be like a magical powerful solution for all the computers users concerned by their computer security. In a cloud based antivirus, a good part of files processing job is transferred to the server, resulting a light computer resources usage and theoretically a better protection when an user are facing with a new zero-day threat, the scanning services running on the server find the best solution to protect the user against it, and automatically that new threat “signature” is available to all the users from the cloud, including the disinfection …
AdSocks RAT — about the new Java trojan computer viruses
The programs that run on our computers are, from the point of view of their code content, of two main types : compiled and interpreted. The compiled programs are those who suffer a transformation from source code written by the programmer to machine code which consists of instructions that can be directly executed by the computer CPU, that’s why sometimes is called native code. This transformation is done via a compiler. Programs coded in C, C++, Delphi, Pascal for example, are compiled programs and due to their native code produced by the compilers, have the fastest execution speed. Interpreted programs also called scripts, requires the presence of an interpreter installed …
Patriot NG, a new security tool?
Today I’ve tested a less known security tool, Patriot NG 1.1 from www.security-projects.com. Maybe the program is less known because it’s in spanish, not translated yet in english, though all the options and settings are very easy to understand for a native english speaker. The program resides in the system tray, from where you can get access to its main options via context menu-right click. The Control Panel named in spanish “Panel De Control” is very simple and intuitive : As you already guess, the program is watching for alteration all the sensitive area of your Windows system, alerting the user when a program try to make a new connection …
