Monthly Archives: March 2009
What to do against Psyb0t
Some hype established around the malware known as Psyb0t. It is unusual as it doesn’t infect windows machines, but MIPS-based Internet-routers and DSL-modems – which are very widespread. (This is only half of the story. There is a windows malware … Continue reading
Update your Java Runtime Environment
Sun has published a security alert and recommends users of their Java Runtime Environment (which is in fact nearly everyone out there) to install the provided update as soon as possible. According to Sun’s document the loader for Java Applets … Continue reading
Colorful Spam twist for bypassing Spamfilters
Starting on 23.03.09 we began to receive a new type of spam mails having a rather interesting format: HTML with tables having certain cells colored with a special background. The result is really nice, as you can see below: The … Continue reading
Avira AntiVir 9 gets adopted fast
As you may have heard, we released version 9 of Avira AntiVir last week. From our update servers we can tell that up to yesterday more than half of Avira AntiVir Premium users as well as those using Avira AntiVir … Continue reading
Facebook users, pay attention where you click
In the last months we have noticed an increased phishing activity targeted at users of the well known social portal Facebook. The specific functionality which is attacked is the free redirect feature. Facebook can redirect to any website using a … Continue reading
Malware writers rig up against Sandboxes
While analysing a recent version of the often adapted Trojan Dropper CeeInject we stumbled over following message in the malware (in plain text): Hi Dear sniffer If you want to find the net You better put some effort in doing … Continue reading
Exploit-Code for Foxit PDF out – Update now
For the popular Foxit PDF Reader, an alternative for Adobes Reader, there is now exploit code available. Many people use Foxit in the hope that it doesn’t contain the same vulnerabilities as the “original” software from Adobe. But a few … Continue reading
Plenty of Patches released
Not only Microsoft published security updates – also Adobe managed to provide a fix for some versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat to close an actively exploited security hole in these products. Microsoft issued 3 security bulletins. One vulnerability in … Continue reading
Configuration Profiles in AntiVir 9
The Professional Edition of AntiVir 9 will introduce a new feature which we have called Configuration Profiles. The idea behind this feature is to better support mobile users. Probably you have faced the problem yourself when running an enterprise antivirus: … Continue reading
New False Positive from Spyware Doctor (Update)
While fixing the false positive detection from a few days ago, PCTools managed to add a new false alarm in their Google Pack version of Spyware Doctor: Today, the program alerts the user that Avira’s ccev.dll contains the Backdoor.Bandok. Of … Continue reading