Monday, January 29, 2007

Sunday, January 21, 2007

New technology of rootkits: Unreal

There is report of new Rootkit technology that can bypass all known Anti-Rootkit. This rootkit can be downloaded for testing.

Check out the forum site from Sysinternal:
http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9630&PN=1&TPN=1

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Review on 6 Rootkit revealers from Informationweek

Check out full review from Informationweek.

They gives you some good background information that normal people can understand and reveals 6 well known Rootkit revealers. But they missed one more good program Sophos Anti-Rootkit (Which is best out of 6 rootkit revealers reviewed on below link).


Six reviewed anti-rootkit products:-
F-Secure BlackLightIceSwordRKDetectorRootkitBusterRootkitRevealerRootkit Unhooker

Sophos Anti-Rootkit can be download from http://www.sophos.com/products/free-tools/sophos-anti-rootkit.html

Full review from Informationweek:-
Link: http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=196901062

Spyware causing your PC to host porn materials

Here is the video for untrained people on how spyware can turn your PC into porn host.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSMz2aEXj8M

Remember, once your PC is turned into Porn junk or zombie, you can't stop them until your totally disable all infected spyware or malware. Try using PC Tools's Spyware Doctor, Webroot's SpywareSweeper and combination of some rootkit revealer from Sophos and good Antivirus software like Kaspersky/McAfee/Symantec/TrendMicro.

Monday, January 15, 2007

Porno popups - Big deal?

You guys recall report of school teacher was busted for 40 years in prison because of some spyware caused porno popups during class session.

Big deal, we all know all popups are caused by adware & spyware or even cookies & scripts that cause automatic popups by just visiting legitimate web sites. And porno popups are no exception, they are just another popups with porno pictures.

Even I gets porn popups just visiting some blogs and webcasting sites.

Links:
Teacher get busted - http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/4346
Some examples of popups - http://www.benedelman.org/news/062206-1.html

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Saddam malware

Have seen this Saddam's malware?, if you have copy of this virus file please send me a copy zip & encrypt it before you pasting to me directly or to http://www.pctools.com/mrc/submit/

More info on this w32/bandload virus:-
http://antivirus.about.com/b/a/257788.htm?nl=1
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-012007.html#00001071

Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs keynote

Apple computer have launch new iPhone, check out Steve Jobs keynote
More links about iPhone & pics:-
From Apple:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/
From Blogger: http://appleiphone.blogspot.com/
From Gadget news: http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-apple-iphone/


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