Once again, my dear readers, I’d like to draw your attention to fake security programs. Today I’ve chosen to talk about a rogueware with a rather funny name – AntiAID. And the name itself suggests, well at least to me, that the program is somehow NOT related to real and legitimate security application. well, I [...]
BlockProtector Can’t Protect Our PCs
BlockProtector is the other fake security program I woul like to talk about. I’ve found that it comes from a large so-called rogueware family called WiniSoft. Rather funny name, isn’t it?.. The name WiniSoft is known to be related to many similar rogues. BlockWatcher, ShieldSafeness, BlockScanner, SoftSafeness, SoftVeteran… These are just a few from this [...]
Beware MaCatte Antivirus 2009! It’s a Rogue!
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Today I’d just to warn you against MaCatte Antivirus 2009. You know, it really resembles McAfee. Its name and its website… They’re really trying to act they are a part of McAfee. But THEY ARE not! Their website is very familiar to the website of McAfee. And this name… MaCatte. It’s very easy to get [...]
Windows Enterprise Suite Is Sneaking Your Way!
Hey everybody! I’ve decided to inform you about the constantly increasing attacks of rogue anti-spyware programs. These fake applications, to my mind, is a serious computer security issue as the developers of these programs are doing their best in order to trick as many unaware pc users as possible.
Why I’ve chosen to start with Windows [...]
The Estonia Attacks
The Estonia Attacks
Hey and welcome back to my wonderful and special blog. I am here today to tell you guys about the Estonia cyber attacks.
Well if you can remember it was in 2007 and it was in April.These cyber attacks were massive and they attacked the major websites pertaining to various big organizations.They reached news [...]
Lets get to the bottom of Botnets.
Okay so here I am back again, and today I will be getting to the bottom of Botnets. These stupid or rather clever things are causing chaos on our online world as we know it.
Botnets as they currently stand are a huge threat to our online world today. Not only that but Botnets can be [...]
CERT!
CERT!
what is CERT? Today I am back and am going to be speaking to you abou CERT…YAH! Do any of you remember that Morris worm? It was massive at the time and it came into being in November 2008.It was actually written by a student with the name of Robert Tappan Morris from Cornwall University.This [...]
DDoS Attacks
DDoS Attacks and some special stuff FOR U to know
Okay so here I am back again and today I am going to be speaking about the wonderful and exciting DDoS attacks.This is going to be lots of fun and I hope that I am able to provide a positive reading experience for all [...]
You know, I had a terrible weekend fighting with viruses in my computer. I can’t imagine where from but my PC caught the Conficker worm. I couldn’t update my Windows automatically and I couldn’t download updates for my current antivirus. I simply couldn’t go to any antivirus website.
I don’t know what else this worm did [...]
