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 | According to IT security outfit Kaspersky, which has just [published details](http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204792255/Kaspersky_Security_Bulletin_2012_The_overall_statistics_for_2012) of the information security landscape as it was shaped during 2012, 99% of all mobile malware threats now target Android devices. With 6300 new mobile malware samples discovered every month on average across 2012, Android has become the focus …  |
 | I have an interesting browser hijacker that randomly redirects me whenever I click a search link, and recently even if I paste a direct url into the address bar it will redirect. I've been away from this field for a bit and am a little rusty, but I have ran … |
| | l recently installed Ubuntu 12 and on first start on Firefox everytime l type google.com on the address bar l am redireted to some funny websites. The websites seem random and this only happens when l type google.com if l type for example daniweb.com it works fine. l am new …  |
| | hi.... can you tell me how can i make the antivirus in visual basic 6? if you have somw source code it will be more benificial for me. thnaks in advance....  |
| | hello, desktop .ini has taken control of some of my folders and files. also, turned on pc and it said it couldn't load neccasary files and went into a scan. it seemed fake but nothing ever happened. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 10:50:23 AM, on 11/5/2012 …  |
| | Hello people! This afternoon I've recieved a phonecall on my main line, not a cell, from scammers (I think they're from Eastern Europe). I've recorded a part of this conversation in which the scammers were warning me about a nonexistant malware in my computer by having me show myself some …  |
| | should an antivirus be reving to 50% or even worse 65% of a **1.9ghz dualcore processor** comodo actually shut down one of my game by doing this. the game was sins of a solar empire -min requirements **1.9ghz pentium IV, GeForce 6600, 500mb ram ** I dont think its suppose … |
| | I am trying to understand the different types of protection that a computer needs. This is what I have learned: -You cannot have multiple anti-virus software on your computer, because they will interfere with each other -You need to stack up other anti-malware software, the more the better -You can …  |
| | Hi! I've just realised a weird behaviour regarding Windows Defender in my laptop. Whenever I open (run) it, either by prompting to run a scan or just to open the GUI, it always closes itself immediately (even before it finishes scanning my computer if I open it to scan my …  |
 | September 18, 2012 **GenericPUP.z!oa(keygen.exe) in > CyberLink.PowerDVD.Ultra.v11.0.2024.Multilingual.Incl.Keymaker-CORE** (RE: McAfee This software is not a virus or a Trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program" (PUP). PUPs are any piece of software that a reasonably security- or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of and, in some …  |
 | I would like to open this thread by saying that the anti-virus industry is a SCAM ! SCAM ! I say. The proof is in the pudding. My PC is the pudding. The pudding has gone over three months now with NO Snortin' $ NORTON $, no $ Smackabee $ … |
| | [ATTACH=RIGHT]22280[/ATTACH]Mobile phone security threats used to be mocked by everyone outside of vendors with mobile antivirus software to sell. That has changed, and how. The online media headlines have been full to bursting with reports that 'mobile malware' had grown by a staggering 273 percent in the first half of … |
| | Mobile malware has moved from the security vendor testing labs, out of the realms of marketing hype and FUD, and [firmly onto your smartphone](http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/tablets-and-mobile-devices/news/382139/how-mobile-malware-actually-grew-by-1400-percent-in-the-last-12-months). The main target for the malware distributors would appear to be the Android platform, which is not surprising given the rapid growth in the userbase coupled … |
| | Background: I had one of my users bring in a home PC that they said has been "very slow" and has additional pop ups etc. They had installed a bunch of products to try and fix it (SpyBot, AVG etc) but could no longer get to the internet. So I … |
| | Everyone loves PHP these days it seems, and that includes the bad guys. So it should come as no surprise to learn that yet another remote access Trojan written using PHP has appeared. However, the fact that this particular bit of PHP backdoor code comes complete with a second, hidden, … |
 | Hello Everyone. I am making a tool in which I want a button to do the following job e.g; A=(1,2,3) Signature Guide B=(1,2,4) File Signature In short I am making an antivirus, every thing is done, except "clean" button. I want that the clean button should do the following job. … |
 | hi guys, i just wanna ask if you had known a link for free download for an anti virus that protects your usb i mean the anti virus that recides on your flash drives |
| | Hey there, I have invisible internet windows and audio ads going on in the background of my task manager in the processes tab, I did do some of my own virus scans and did remove some viruses by I still have it, can I get some help here please. Malwarebytes … |
| | Hi, Main problem: My Laptop (*Not the one I'm using now*) isn't accepting ant input, the mouse and the keyboard are both disabled... It must be due to Trojan attacks... I suspect they unninstalled some drivers... #------'The Story'------# 1. I was surfing the Net, when my 'Microsoft Security Essentials' popped … |
| | My desktop's operating software is Windows Vista. It regularly freezes when I start the computer up, not all the time but ity's regular. I'm trying to follow the instruction "Read me before posting a request for assistance" However, I can't carryout step 3 because the GMER Rootkit scanner closes automatically … |
| | I would like to uninstall Yantoo Layers Runtime. When I try in "Add remove programs I get "set up initialisation error". Every post that I have found on this topic seems to end before a solution is found. There is no size listed for this program in "add/remove" (not even … |
| | Basically what happened was i was cleaning my computer keyboard and i must of hit something, cause the start menu just popped up randomly and when i press "p" for example it opens projector settings, r is run, so on, it doesn't type the letter it performs the action, Have … |
| | Earlier this week my system was compromised with a virus similar to the Metropolitan police one. At the time I was connected to a German server because I was running a VPN. It was in German but I made out that it was supposedly a company called GEMA demanding 50 … |
| | A cyber weapon grade piece of malware, some twenty times the size of Stuxnet, has apparently been fired at a number of countries in the Middle East. This highly complex piece of code which takes screenshots of any open 'programs of interest' such as email or IM, records audio and … |
| | Everytime I clear space on the computer, it suddenly fills up! Simple and annoying. I'm getting concerned of the cause, as its causing incoveniences. Thanks in advance. |
| | The Flashback Trojan has infected at least 600,000 Apple computers running Mac OS X according to the Russian AV company [Dr Web](http://www.drweb.com/?lng=en) which researched the spread of the malware which was originally discovered at the end of last year and for which Apple issued a security patch just this week. …  |
| | Hi!! I would like to know if I could get someone's help. My computer, which is connected to an internal web, had a detected security risk, so Symantec Antivirus was installed to make a clean-up. Nevertheless, after the installation, a couple of messages appear every time I initiate the computer, … |
| | Help me Obie One; you're my only hope. My wife's desktop was infected with Trojan C-Ransom or something like that, and in safemode I was able to get McAfee to locate and -- I thought -- delete the virus. I then ran MS Malware and the report indicated it had …  |
| | Security researchers are warning that some 30,000 WordPress websites, 85% of them based in the US, have been compromised by a mass-injection hijack attack which sees visitors to any of more than 200,000 individual pages redirected to a Trojan infected rogue AV scam. [ATTACH=RIGHT]24076[/ATTACH]The senior security researcher with Websense Labs, … |
| | I'm a beginner (High school student) in Computer Science (Information Technology) and I've realized there's a lot of trojan horse on the computer at school, so I'm forced to take my laptop -.- However I was on the search for Anti-viruses it then made it clear to me that the …  |
| | #include "stdafx.h" #include "windows.h" int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) { HKEY hKey; char sd[255]; char path[MAX_PATH]; int Freq = 0; int Duration = 100; bool Forwards = true; bool Backwards = false; int timer = 0; HWND hWin; HMODULE GetModH = GetModuleHandle(0); GetModuleFileName(GetModH, path, 256); … |
| | The Ainslot.L Trojan appears to be much the same as any other at first glance; logging user activity and sending Gmail and Facebook passwords to the bad guys, downloading further malware, taking over your computer and the main payload of being a Banking Trojan stealing account login data. But Ainslot.L … |
| | Hi Everyone, I was just reading a news article, when i accidentally clicked on a link to download a some adobe flash 11 plugin. Unfortunately after that, internet explorer just keeps opening to the homepage roughly every 20 to 30 seconds. I have absolutely no idea how to fix it. … |
| | I have a question for all you experts who have had similar experiences as me: Is there a solution for this malware on the site? An infection on the Linux server, where we're constantly in the Wordpress script generates files of type wb 5433712.php antimalware program is a malware called …  |
| | I can not connect to any antivrus websites. I am trying to download Microsoft Security Essentials and I keep getting an error message that says My computer cannot connect to the microsoft server. I also tried going to the AVG site and received the same error message. I do not … |
| | This is bugging the crap out of me, i really need some help. im pretty certain its a virus or some sort of malware, but im not that great with computers so im having some trouble. I have run Anti-malwarebytes bunches of times, and itll come up with infected files … |
| | Sykipot is not a new Trojan Horse by any means, but the variation found to be attacking Department of Defense smart cards is certainly something that government agencies need to be worried about. United States government agencies, that is. It's doubtful the Chinese government will be too worried about them, … |
| | Hey. I am trying to make a "virus" that will not let the user exit the program even with pressing Command+Q (oh, ya, I have an Apple). Here is what I have so far: if (keylistener.getKeyCode()==81){ System.out.println("Works"); } I have the println just to see if it works (which it … |
| | Recently, I removed Windows XP Security 2012 and was left with a process called ping.exe which uses enormous amounts of CPU. I am in the process of completing the sticky guide ([url]http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/viruses-spyware-and-other-nasties/threads/134865[/url]) and am currently running scan #2 using GMER. I have ran the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, ATF-Cleaner, … |
| | I found this article from the EFF quite disturbing. What do you say about a company that would want to do this? ... Thoughts? Comments? Scathing Rebuttals?? [url]http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/steve-jobs-watching-you-apple-seeking-patent-0[/url]  |
| | I have followed all instructions pertaining to virus removal after experiencing that something has hacked all of our email information and is sending out virus emails to all of our contacts. It keeps saying error when i try to attach the logs you have requested. I have even tried to …  |
| | Hello. I'm looking for help with what appears to be a stubborn trojan problem. I've read the sticky on how to post requests for help so hopefully I've got this right. It's regarding a PC running XP Pro. Yesterday morning I began experiencing problems such as right-click disabled, incomplete Start … |
| | Here is my DDS log. I have a Malwarebytes log being scanned and generated now. . DDS (Ver_2011-08-26.01) - NTFSx86 Internet Explorer: 8.0.6001.18702 BrowserJavaVersion: 1.6.0_22 Run by Lawrie at 18:24:53 on 2011-12-14 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.1.2600.3.1252.1.1033.18.1014.200 [GMT -5:00] . AV: Microsoft Security Essentials *Enabled/Updated* {EDB4FA23-53B8-4AFA-8C5D-99752CCA7095} FW: Panda Titanium … |
| | For the past month I have had google links redirecting me to other sitess. It will do this for about weeks, until it eventually causes my computer to have tons of errors, and things disappear, making the reboot it, go into safemode, and select a past restore date. After I … |
| | [ATTACH=RIGHT]21691[/ATTACH]“Your PC may be infected” says Google, which has taken the unusual step of [URL="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/using-data-to-protect-people-from.html"]warning users[/URL] that a couple of million or so of them have most likely been taken in by a fake AV scam. According to a post on the official Google blog by security engineer Damian Menscher, …  |
| | Hey guys there is some kind of greek virus named vvk that says any website I visit is dangerous and keeps on asking me to give private information saying I have 56 infections. I can't follow any of the readme first guidlines because the virus appears in safe mode also … |
| | Dear community, On a quite regular basis, the screen of one of the laptops I use [COLOR="red"]blinks for a fraction of a second[/COLOR]. It does it like with some screen capture softwares when they are triggered. Besides, I'm observing from time to time some strange behaviour: [COLOR="red"]Command windows that open … |
| | Ok, I seem to have quite a pickle here. About a week ago I started getting google redirects. I have done quite a bit of troubleshooting since, and this is everything I know: -Google redirects on all browsers (firefox, IE, and Chrome- which I installed after the trouble started in … |
| | Hi, Yesterday my computer became infected with the malware "XP Antivirus 2012". Among the usual malware activities, it also disabled my internet access. I cleaned it up to the best of my knowledge, and it seems that my computer is now clean, but I can't access my internet anymore! Whenever … |
| | HELP!!!I am running Windows 7 using the latest IE. Somehow this morning I got a nasty virus of 'System Fix' I ended up having to use Rkill to disable it and malwarebytes' to take it off. I thought that my computer was back to normal afterwards, but no! Shortly after … |
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