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Mary's Antivirus Software Blog August 2004 Archive

By Mary Landesman, About.com Guide to Antivirus Software since 2000

Foto unzips to reveal nasty surprise

Tuesday August 31, 2004
A new email threat surfaced on August 31st, after several variants were spammed to recipients. The email carries a malicious attachment - either foto.zip or fotos.zip. The html file inside ... Read More

Virus alerts: Too much of a bad thing

Tuesday August 31, 2004
Is your inbox filling up with messages accusing you of sending a virus? Chances are, you're not a victim of a virus infection, but rather a victim of the antivirus ... Read More

Disabling System Restore to remove viruses

Friday August 27, 2004
Windows ME and Windows XP both come with a feature known as System Restore that enables users to revert to specific restore points without impacting data files. However, problems can ... Read More

Automatic update or automatic curse?

Tuesday August 24, 2004
Starting August 25th, XP users who have automatic update enabled will be force-fed Windows XP SP2. Because XP SP2 is incompatible with a wide range of antivirus and security software, ... Read More

Panda weekly top ten

Friday August 20, 2004
Panda Software, developers of Panda Antivirus, report the following top ten active infections based on infected machines scanned by Panda's ActiveScan, their free online scanner. Report is for the week ... Read More

Resident Evil: Capcom hoax

Thursday August 19, 2004
While many eyes were drawn to the deliberately Trojaned Mosquito game, Sam Gibson of Ferrago was reporting on the T-Virus, an elaborate cellphone virus hoax designed by Capcom to drum ... Read More

Security companies merge

Wednesday August 18, 2004
The company behind the popular anti-spyware protection PestPatrol has been purchased by Computer Associates and vulnerability management company Foundstone has been betrothed to McAfee for a reported dowry of $86 ... Read More

Mosquito bite turns out to be deliberate

Thursday August 12, 2004
In an interesting twist, it turns out the Mosquit dialer Trojan present in copies of Mosquito, the Symbian OS game, was deliberately placed there by the developer. According to a ... Read More

Trojaned Mosquito bites cellphone gamers

Wednesday August 11, 2004
Fresh attention is being focused on what appears to be an old problem - Trojaned copies of a popular cellphone game that are surreptitiously dialing premium numbers. Full Story

New Bagle variant threatens

Monday August 9, 2004
Dubbed Bagle.AQ by McAfee and Bagle.AC by Trend Micro, the worm - regardless of what it's called - began spreading swiftly on August 9th. A mass-mailing email worm that also ... Read More

Pocket PC Trojan for profit

Thursday August 5, 2004
A new Trojan confronting Pocket PC users is up for sale, according to antivirus vendor Kaspersky Labs. While not the first malware to turn a profit, the Brador Trojan does ... Read More

Porn email leads to Trojaned website

Wednesday August 4, 2004
Clickers beware: Yet another batch of porn email currently circulating contains a link pointing to a booby-trapped website. Curiousity seekers will be silently greeted by a downloader Trojan which then ... Read More

Email banking scams

Sunday August 1, 2004
Phishing schemes, fictitious email claiming to be from legitimate financial institutions, abound on the Internet. Recent versions ironically claim to be in response to security threats and instruct the recipient ... Read More
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