The news that one of the most important people to the technology development for the last 30 year had passed away in cancer hadn't been publicly known for more than an hour or so before the first scam sites started showing up in the search engine results. The vultures where already profiting from the death [...] Continue Reading
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Once again there's a raid against WordPress blogs infecting them with malware. This time the attacks are done in a way that Firefox's and Chrome's built-in security features for evil code can't detect the malware. Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Blogging, The World According to Xavier
One problem most people owning a blog or web site got is that you constantly need to check your own site for malware and evil code. Today it's way too common that malicious code is inserted in web site hijacking the visitors and most likely also infecting their computers with trojans. Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, The World According to Xavier, Tutorials
A malicious iframe exploit is currently being loaded by thousands of sites all over the Internet according the Scansafe blog. Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, The World According to Xavier
As always spammers take advatage of big events to make people interested in the emails they get. And as alwasy spammers have already started sending out fake emails about the Swine Flue. McAfee is reporting about spam emails trying to use Swine Flue to sell pills. If you follow the links in any of the [...] Continue Reading
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A few days ago McColo Corp in San Jose (Californa) was disconnected from the Internet. According to some sources McColo Corp has been responsible for as much as 75% of the spam in the world!!!!! Hurricane Electric and Global Crossing cut off the Internet line sometime on Monday or Tuesday and already on Wednesday a [...] Continue Reading
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On the first of August the Xavier Media blog mention a hack of a Swedish online bookstore that caused the web site to distribute malware. Since most of us are extremly dependent on our web sites it's important to check out your own web site to make sure it's not scarying your visitors away. This [...] Continue Reading
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According to Trend Micro you should stay away from files called start.html, begin.html, r.html, main.html, news.html, and about.html since all these files will try to install a dangerious file called WATCH.EXE. This .EXE file contains a malware called TROJ_AGENT.AYZO. Since all these .html and .exe files are hosted on legitimate sites that has been hacked [...] Continue Reading
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Trend Micro is writing about spam with random subjects not relevant to the actual content in the email. The content in the spam emails in this case are usually on line of text and a link that ends with r.html. The dangerous part of all these kinds of spam is that if you click on [...] Continue Reading
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