Wednesday, June 27, 2007

About Antivirus Software: Trojan Spammed in Fake Security Bulletin

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  from Mary Landesman
Scammers are increasingly turning to new tricks in an effort to bypass security measures and trick users into self-inflicting harm. This week, an email masquerading as a security patch that really pointed to a Trojan, plus a desperate act by pump and dump stock scammers to get their miscreant mail past spam filters.

 
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Trojan Spammed in Fake Security Bulletin
A TrojanDownloader was mass-seeded (spammed) in an email masquerading as a Microsoft Security Bulletin. Here's how to spot the bogus email.

 
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PDF Spam Attack
Pump and dump stock scammers have a new weapon in their arsenal - PDF files. This latest move has desperate written all over it. Here's why.

 
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Antivirus software may report that a virus was found in either the _RESTORE folder or the System Volume Information folder and isn't able to remove it. Here's how to get it cleaned up.

 
 
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