Category Archives: Thoughts
Fake avast! antivirus website
A fake website for the well-known avast! antivirus is floating around the Internet trying to scam the users. Even if it is a subtle difference between the original domain of the avast! antivirus and the fake(scam) domain, you can notice it easily. http://www.avast.com – this is the original domain of avast! antivirus http://avast-download.com – this one is a fake domain for avast! The registrant informations for the fake avast! domain are private, the Whois Lookup reveals only: Domain avast-download.com Date Registered: 2010-9-21 Date Modified: 2010-9-21 Expiry Date: 2011-9-21 DNS1: 1.nseasy.com DNS2: 2.nseasy.com Registrant Private Whois Service Private Whois Service fp75akd4d95245d8b60e@oqjij874d9300d54bd95.privatewhois.net *******PLEASE DO NOT SEND LETTERS****** ****Contact the owner by email …
Top Ten computer security myths
I thought it is a good idea to make a list with the top ten popular beliefs but in reality misconceptions about home computers security, if you know more please let me know and I will re-entitle this article “Top Twenty computer security myths”. Failing to avoid these wrong ideas result in exposing your computer to a higher risk of infection with computer viruses, compromised online accounts and presumably financial loses. The most recent case was when somebody loses bitcoins worthing $500,000 from his account, due to a computer virus infection with a computer trojan. It was enough that only a single file, wallet.dat containing account informations to be stolen …
WOT (Web of Trust) — my review
Web of Trust, shortly WOT is a community driven system for websites ratings, aimed to help for a more secure and trusted web. The ratings components are : Trustworthiness Vendor reliability Privacy Child Safety The average of all these ratings forms a website reputation.This reputation system can be accessed through a browser add-on available for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, once downloaded and installed it will display next to the links a red circle for dangerous websites containing malware or scams, yellow circle for a questionable reputation and green for clean and safe websites. In this way the WOT users will know what websites to avoid and what websites are safe …
Computer security vulnerabilities
The security of an Windows machine has multiple lines of defense like a fortress and not surprisingly the first line of defense is our Internet browsers which are built with the security in mind. But, there was not yet produced a bullet proof computer program, although it becomes harder and harder to exploit an operating system or specific program vulnerability because the security patches are made available to the users quicker than before, this practice is widely used by the attackers and the browsers and their space are very often the “gate” for all kind of malware. First, at browser level are running a lot of third-party technologies aimed to …
Fake virustotal.com website leading to malware
With over 200.000 of submissions per day, http://www.virustotal.com is the greatest online scanner for malware and dubious URL’s. All the major antivirus engines are combined in a very fast and free service, giving a more accurate idea about the character of a submitted file — malware or not, much more accurate than a single antivirus and thus it has a huge number of visitors aka submitters. This was speculated recently by malicious persons in a spreading malware attempt. They were created a fake virustotal.com website, a so called “clone”. The “clones”, fake websites of well-known websites are intensively used by hackers to trick the visitors and provoke them to introduce …
XP Home Security 2011 fake antivirus removal
We are assisting nowadays at a proliferation of the fake antiviruses, the things flows as in a bourse depending on demands and offers. More and more advanced new computer viruses come out everyday, people hear about them and as a result there is an increased demand for antivirus software, a good thing maybe you will say but that’s exactly the thing that malefic virus creators tries to speculate. So, I think it’s a good idea to talk about XP Home Security 2011 fake antivirus removal. Spreading fake antiviruses, fake antimalware or fake antispyware become a profitable business. It’s about the same family of fake antiviruses even if the names differs : …
Scam websites and email spam
Spamming emails with advertising messages is the prefered way of the unscrupulous marketers to conduct their business, it has the big advantage that there is a guarantee that somebody will read their emails. Spamming emails become a whole industry, there are groups focused only on harvesting valid tens of thousands of email addresses; after that they can sell them to unethical marketers for good money or spam these email addresses with advertising messages, depending of what type of orders they take. For example if someone who is registering using his email address for a fake anti malware software free license, it’s in danger to have passed the email address to …
