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[Gilbert]

Warning: NOT the real VirusTotal.com – don’t fall for scam!!

Warning: don’t visit it or pay attention to it, installs malware: hxxp://virus-total.in

VirusTotal.com [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirusTotal.com ] is a brilliant site that helps both public...

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[Chubb]

FREE Commercial- and Good Deal Software on Smokey’s Security Forums

Smokey’s Security Forums have started a new project: Freebies and Good Deal Software. The board have therefore now a new section, divided into 2 sub-forums:

- Freebies and Good Deals, regarding...

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[Quizmaster]

Zango crapware is back: pushing somebody else’s popular software and bundling crap with it

Sunbelt Blog | January 29, 2010

Here’s something they don’t teach in marketing 101: If you’re pushing software that no one wants — like, say, annoying adware — and your downloads are...

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[Scarlett]

0-Day Extremely Critical Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution

Microsoft Security Advisory (979352)

Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution

Published: January 14, 2010 | Updated: January 15, 2010

Version: 1.1

Executive...

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[Quizmaster]

Spamassasin Y2K10 Rule Bug – Update Your Rules Now!

The Apache SpamAssassin Project – 2010-01-01

Versions of the FH_DATE_PAST_20XX rule released with versions of Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.0 thru 3.2.5 will trigger on most mail with a Date header...

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[Scarlett]

[UPDATED] Microsoft IIS 0-Day Vulnerability in Parsing Files Reported

TheRegister | 25th December 2009

A researcher has identified a vulnerability in the most recent version of Microsoft’s Internet Information Services that allows attackers to execute...

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[Scarlett]

Microsoft IIS 0-Day Vulnerability in Parsing Files Reported

TheRegister | 25th December 2009

A researcher has identified a vulnerability in the most recent version of Microsoft’s Internet Information Services that allows attackers to execute...

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[Scarlett]

AV-Comparatives Award Best Anti-Virus Product of 2009: Symantec/Norton

The well-known and trustworthy anti-virus test organisation ‘AV-Comparatives’ have announced the winner of the Year 2009: Symantec.

AV-Comparatives is an Austrian Non-Profit-Organization,...

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[Scarlett]

Trend Micro is Smokey’s Security Weblog 2009/2010 Hall of Shame Awardee

Like I explained in the introduction of the Smokey’s Security Weblog Hall of Shame, sole purpose of this Hall is to improve users experiences and interests concerning all security related...

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[Scarlett]

Trend Micro is a bad and a childish loser

To me it’s amazing that a well-respected security company like Trend Micro act in such an infantile and, more important, irresponsible way on what’s going on in malware combating...

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[rv56]

Smokey’s Seasonal Competition 2009 will run from Mon 14th Dec. until Monday 21st Dec.

Competition time!!!

The 2009 Smokey’s Security Forums Seasonal Competition will run from Mon 14th Dec. until Monday 21st Dec. This particular Competition is dedicated to a security related...

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[rv56]

Part 2: Malware is evolving, HijackThis not – OTL Log/Report Tool as replacement

Like I wrote a couple of months ago, malware is evolving at a very fast rate, sadly HijackThis isn’t evolving so quickly. In OTL (formerly OTListIt2) by Oldtimer my board Smokey’s Security...

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[rv56]

Get Top-rated DefenseWall HIPS for Free on Dec 10-12, 2009

From Gizmo: “SoftSphere, the makers of the highly regarded DefenseWall HIPS are offering a free copy of DefenseWall exclusively to Gizmo’s Freeware readers. The offer will be available...

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[Quizmaster]

KB 2008373: Upgrading Vista to Windows 7 fails with error 0xc0000359 and reference to iastor.sys

Symptoms

When trying to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7, upgrade process fails with error message and rolls back to Vista.

\$windows.~bt\windows\system32\drivers\iastor.sys

Status: 0xc0000359

Windows...

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[Quizmaster]

[VULNERABILITY] IE6 and IE7 0-Day Exploit Reported

SANS | 2009-11-22

A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a dangling...

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