Conficker’s raison d’etre? Profit, of Course
More than a week after Conficker’s much-hyped April 1st activation date, the botnet has come to life and is using a P2P communication system to update itself on what is believed to be millions of...
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Hacking Skills Help Save a Client’s PC
A client recently called about his home PC saying that there were all kinds of pop-ups telling him he was infected. Naturally, the pop-ups promised to remove the “infection” for $49.95, a typical...
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Malvertising an Ever-expanding Threat
As if we don’t already have enough to deal with, it seems that malvertising–a technique where malicious code is placed in an online ad to either mislead the user or infect their computer—is on the...
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What the Heck is FakeAV?
I’d love to have a dollar for every time I’ve had to clean off FakeAV junk from a PC and then (diplomatically) explain to the user that they’ve been tricked. “But Windows Security Center popped up and...
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Don’t let fake antivirus sucker you
Fake antivirus, also known as scareware, rogue antivirus and scamware, is one of most common threats you will encounter on the web today. You’ve probably seen it before, and if you’re smart, you didn’t...
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