Monthly Archives: August 2009
USA Visa Lottery scam
We don’t see every day USA Visa lottery scams, but when we see them, there is a long text with many details in order to make the email very credible. This time the text is very simple because it refers … Continue reading
Autorun-/AutoPlay-Patches from Microsoft
Microsoft released two new knowledgebase articles in which it makes patches for all actual supported operating systems available. Those patches properly disable the Autorun and AutoPlay feature. This is important as previously it was possible to convince users to execute … Continue reading
W32/Induc.A Removal Tool
Last week a virus that infects Delphi development environments and then the compiled Delphi programs was detected and got some media attention – infected programs were distributed on cover-mount CDs and DVDs on computer magazines and via Download Portals. Our … Continue reading
Holiday Season Spam
When I looked into one of our spam traps, one mail caught my eye: It was promising an expensive holiday trip to Turkey nearly for free, and I could even take 3 more persons with me! The trip is allegedly … Continue reading
Updates from Microsoft available
As announced before the weekend, Microsoft now released 9 security bulletins. The patches related to those bulletins close overall 19 security holes in Windows, Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, ISA- and BizTalk-Server, RDP client for Mac and the .Net framework. According … Continue reading
Patchday ahead
Microsoft announced its August patchday: The Redmond company plans to release 9 security bulletins on the coming Tuesday. 5 of those Bulletins deal with vulnerabilities rated critical by Microsoft; they all allow for remote code execution. Of those, 4 affect … Continue reading
Mozilla Foundation fixes 2 vulnerabilities in Firefox
The developers of the Mozilla Foundation just released Firefox 3.5.2 to close two critical rated security vulnerabilities. One flaw in the web browser could be abused to spoof certificates for web servers. This could happen as the browser didn’t parse … Continue reading
Be aware of the fraudsters
If you are a German user and receive an email coming from “Virenwarndienst” with the email address <Virenwarndienst@<Abzock-Webseite>.info> do not register there for downloading the software. This site is a price trap. The users who register there are closing a … Continue reading
CentMail: Yahoo’s “new” idea to stop spam
First of all, the idea is not at all new. Bill Gates talked about a method to pay a very small fee for each sent email in 2004, but the idea proved to be not realistic. Yahoo’s CentMail does nothing … Continue reading →