Thứ Tư, 30 tháng 11, 2011

Having been blogging this topic for quite a while, I figure this might be a good time to highlight some of the snippets of information that people have posted on some of those blogs (anonymized, of course). You might also be interested in a resource page I've started here at AVIEN.One prospective victim instructed to connect via the Run window to www.support.me. This turns out to belong to

Thứ Hai, 21 tháng 11, 2011

The hpHOSTS Hosts file has been updated. There is now a total of 216,044 listed hostsnames.If you are NOT using the installer, please read the included Readme.txt file for installation instructions. Enjoy! :)Latest Updated: 21/11/2011 18:30Last Verified: 21/11/2011 19:00Download hpHosts now!http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download

Thứ Ba, 15 tháng 11, 2011

I thought I'd made this clear, but apparently not. I got an e-mail earlier, from a RoadRunner IP (residential US ISP), using an @up-yours.com address.There's two problems here however;1. It's an invalid address, so can't reply2. The e-mail houses a childish threat, without actually telling me what I did to deserve it*********************************************************************General*****

Chủ Nhật, 13 tháng 11, 2011

According to a post at my favorite news site, it looks like Lavasoft' new owners are the infamous chaps behind the well known "Interactive Brands". Should've seen this coming really, given they de-listed the well known malware player, WhenU, some time ago - I know that was 6 years ago, but it can't just be a coincidence, especially given who the new owners are.Anti-spyware company Lavasoft AB is

Thứ Sáu, 11 tháng 11, 2011

You may remember, in September I blogged about Internet.BS, well known as a bulletproof provider for domain registrations.Sadly, neither Verisign nor ICANN have done anything, and Internet.bs are still refusing reports (I say refusing because whilst the error is a 450, they were notified months ago and it's still producing the same error, preventing reports going through), courtesy of the Gmail

Thứ Tư, 9 tháng 11, 2011

Following an article I wrote recently for SC Magazine, Martijn Grooten of Virus Bulletin, who shares my interest in and dislike of support desk scams, contacted me about the web site associated with eFIX, a company claiming to offer online technical support. He and I, along with Steven Burn, who has a great deal of experience of working in this area, have been able to dig out some interesting

Thứ Ba, 1 tháng 11, 2011

Look at the image on the left. See anything that shouldn't be there?I'll give you a hint - it's got a black background.I identified this whilst doing a routine enquiry on an IP housing a plethora of fake meds sites. I dropped a note to the sites owner and registrar, who informed me it most definitely should NOT be there.The content in question, is;

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