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A few simple tips could help protect Web surfers from a low-tech tactic used by high-tech thieves: disguise. Hackers have found ways to impersonate banks online, to pretend to be your social networking acquaintances and even to disguise themselves as long-lost friends. It’s all in an effort to spread computer viruses and other malicious software that allow criminals to hijack personal information, trick users into purchasing fake anti-virus programs and more. Fortunately, some basic safe-surfing practices and the right security software can help keep you safe.  Looks Can Be Deceiving. Always visit banking and financial sites directly, not through links you receive via e-mail. Such links often take you to Web sites that look exactly like your bank’s but are actually clever forgeries that steal whatever passwords or account numbers you enter.

Rogue software has glided onto the Internet as of last November confounded the efforts of top security experts to eliminate the program and trace its origins and purpose, exposing serious weaknesses in the world’s digital infrastructure. The program, known as Conficker, uses flaws in Windows software to co-opt machines and link them into a virtual computer that can be commanded remotely by its authors. With more than five million of these zombies now under its control — government, business and home computers in more than 200 countries — this shadowy computer has power that dwarfs that of the world’s largest data centers. Alarmed by the program’s quick spread after its debut in November, computer security experts from industry, academia and government joined forces in a highly unusual collaboration. They decoded the program and developed antivirus software that erased it from millions of the computers. But Conficker’s persistence and sophistication has squelched the belief of many experts that such global computer infections are a thing of the past.

When Microsoft released its latest operating system, Windows 7, it was perceived as the company’s most secure launch ever — the consumation of a nine-year “Trustworthy Computing” effort to sustain a product line that had been riddled with major security holes.

Microsoft had years to enhance Windows XP, but the Conficker worm, which started spreading last year, is now thought to have infected more than 7 million Windows machines. And for every Windows bug that gets crushed, hackers appear to find new problems in the software that runs on top of Microsoft’s operating system such as Flash Player, QuickTime and Java.

The chief technology officer with Immunity, a security company that spends a lot of time finding the new software bugs states that Windows 7 is definitely by far the most secure system Microsoft has launched.

The one of the official of Microsoft revealed the statement in a recent interview that states that they had made great progress with respect to security around the core OS technology in the Windows PC. But as they did that and the net became more prevalent, the bad guys continued to evolve their attacks.

Windows may be safer, but cyber-criminals still have lot of other places to attack, they can hit hundreds of millions of users with a single attack. So most of the worst attacks today targets PCs running Windows. This arises question whether the operating system itself is secure or not.

Attackers are getting so good at sending highly customized e-mail messages, complete with malicious attachments, that the security of Windows seems nothing.

The director of research for the SANS Institute, a security training company states that the problem with the targeted attacks is that there is so much money that they can actually trump the security and the amount of money that governments and large industrial crime groups have to spend is enough to trump any of the defenses they have.

In a report published one month back for a congressional advisory panel, one of the analysts detailed exactly how this happens. Looking at attacks that have been occured, the report found that targets are carefully chosen, and then sent very believable e-mails with falsely encoded attachments that exploit bugs in a product such as Adobe Reader, something that’s outside of Microsoft’s control. As soon as victim opens the .pdf suddenly attackers have a command over the network.

Several Microsoft customers think there will be much wider enterprise adoption of Windows 7 than there was with Vista, which was widely ignored by corporate users. One of the customer wrote that as long as third-party patching continues to be a challenge, client security will continue to be at the front of information security defense and incident response. Windows 7 won’t significantly decrease client-side attacks that lead to compromises, but Microsoft either can not bear the burden of it.

According to Microsoft, it can go a long way toward solving this type of problem by enhancing the way people connect each other on the Internet. For the past few years it has advocated an idea it calls “end-to-end” trust, saying it wants to develop better association mechanisms for people, computers and software on the Internet.

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When Microsoft released its latest operating system, Windows 7, it was perceived as the company’s most secure launch ever — the consumation of a nine-year “Trustworthy Computing” effort to sustain a product line that had been riddled with major security holes.

Microsoft had years to enhance Windows XP, but the Conficker worm, which started spreading last year, is now thought to have infected more than 7 million Windows machines. And for every Windows bug that gets crushed, hackers appear to find new problems in the software that runs on top of Microsoft’s operating system such as Flash Player, QuickTime and Java.

The chief technology officer with Immunity, a security company that spends a lot of time finding the new software bugs states that Windows 7 is definitely by far the most secure system Microsoft has launched.

The one of the official of Microsoft revealed the statement in a recent interview that states that they had made great progress with respect to security around the core OS technology in the Windows PC. But as they did that and the net became more prevalent, the bad guys continued to evolve their attacks.

Windows may be safer, but cyber-criminals still have lot of other places to attack, they can hit hundreds of millions of users with a single attack. So most of the worst attacks today targets PCs running Windows. This arises question whether the operating system itself is secure or not.

Attackers are getting so good at sending highly customized e-mail messages, complete with malicious attachments, that the security of Windows seems nothing.

The director of research for the SANS Institute, a security training company states that the problem with the targeted attacks is that there is so much money that they can actually trump the security and the amount of money that governments and large industrial crime groups have to spend is enough to trump any of the defenses they have.

In a report published one month back for a congressional advisory panel, one of the analysts detailed exactly how this happens. Looking at attacks that have been occured, the report found that targets are carefully chosen, and then sent very believable e-mails with falsely encoded attachments that exploit bugs in a product such as Adobe Reader, something that’s outside of Microsoft’s control. As soon as victim opens the .pdf suddenly attackers have a command over the network.

Several Microsoft customers think there will be much wider enterprise adoption of Windows 7 than there was with Vista, which was widely ignored by corporate users. One of the customer wrote that as long as third-party patching continues to be a challenge, client security will continue to be at the front of information security defense and incident response. Windows 7 won’t significantly decrease client-side attacks that lead to compromises, but Microsoft either can not bear the burden of it.

According to Microsoft, it can go a long way toward solving this type of problem by enhancing the way people connect each other on the Internet. For the past few years it has advocated an idea it calls “end-to-end” trust, saying it wants to develop better association mechanisms for people, computers and software on the Internet.

Today malicious code of Martuz is imbedded into many other sites apart from pristine gumblar.cn but Martuz is the name that’s stuck. Martuz (JSRedir-R) is answerable for 42% of all malware and deseases found on websites, has been extremely effectual in the way of spreading. User?s machines are the primary destination of Martuz. The virus danger wide-known as Martuz attaind its nickname from the domain it treats for exploit allocation initiatingly ? gumblar.cn. Martuz means complete compromise of cracked Web sites and PCs that they thereafter facilitate to assail.

The latest well-spread insurrection malware hit of the Web known diversely as Martuz, Geno and Martuz, is a multiparty assail that not only assails compromised machines with a number of some pieces of malicious programs but also has the ability to purloin credentials and block the user from any actions to remove Gumblar. Martuz is a botnet that assaults Web servers and assaulted Web site visitors for the purposes of setuping ill-intentioned code on their PCs after that Martuz threats redirect end-user Google searches to decrptive Web sites. Martuz affecting computers goals predominant Microsoft platforms. Many bloggers have been focusing on the script included in the crack, not telling much on what rises when a user is compromised. Martuz is now spreading quicker than the Conficker virus that has devastated millions of computers recently.

We advise you to transmute your passwords right now because Martuz is everywhere. Not only does Martuz lower the performance of your computer, but puts your privacy and information in a great danger too. If you are attacked with Martuz, instant effect is needed. Martuz conceived a liking for pilfering FTP credentials, sending SPAM, installing erroneous anti virus infection, highjacking Google search queries and turning off security programs. Martuz is the name of a growing malicious programs that compromises traditionally non-malicious Web servers for the purposes of developing computers that visit this kind of Web sites.

Martuz that readdresss Google search is assigned on the end-oriented computers, which ensure the attackers with “pay-per-click” or affordable some sorts of income. Martuz quests FTP credentials on assaulted PCs and may use them to compromise different Web sites. Compromised Web sites do not happen to host malware or develop Google search results page, but in the room host links Martuz redesignates your computer to with the support ill-intentioned servers elsewhere. One of the initial servers used the domain gumblar.cn, which changed to martuz.cn and would possibly to convert again. cn/rss/? is tacitly downloaded and prosecuted.

There are some various symbols of Martuz. In distinction from infections of the same type Martuz embeds itself not only into the most frequently treatd computer files such as index.html, index.php, etc., but does that into the every page of cracked Website. We saw a web page with more than one

Any information would help. I have a theory, what if I just disconnect my internet connection from my computer? How do computers get viruses/worms in the first place? Don’t they only get them from the internet? They can’t possibly get viruses from the air or contaminated spaces like us humans. Would disconnecting my internet connection prevent from being infected by the Conficker C virus?
Thank you.

Hey, my girlfriend works at a vet hospital where she de-worms animals all the time. Do you think I can just use some of the de-wormer from her work for the Conficker worm?

Spyware Protect 2009 is malware that is normally installed in association with the Conficker virus. The Conficker worm, which was unbelievably rampant, would install this software, and would attempt to scare the user into purchasing a full version. Spyware Protect is not real removal software. It can’t be trusted. And if you suspect you have this infection, you must delete it quickly before your system files become corrupt.

Common Signs of Infection: The most common signs of an infection are:

Slow system performance Pop ups and/or pop unders Taskbar warnings System freezes and crashes Browser hijacks How To Get Rid of Spyware Protect 2009

As I said earlier, an infection of Spyware Protect 2009 means you most likely have a conficker infection as well. To get rid of this tag team of computer destruction isn’t easy, but it can be done.

Manual Removal

To remove this virus manually requires a keen eye for questionable registry files. I do not recommend a beginner attempt this. You will need to enter into your system’s LOCAL_HKEY_USER folder and spot out all DLL and LNK files with the Spyware Protect name or Sysguard name. You will then have to block all related sites, such as adwareguard.net and antivguardian.com. Then you must stop all related processes and delete all related files. If you make one single mistake, the virus will re-install itself at the next start-up.

Automatic Removal. It Just Works.

Because manual removal is so treacherous, I advise all my colleagues, friends, and clients to use automatic removal tools. I don’t have enough hours in the day to manually remove viruses from every computer I fix. I prefer to use automatic tools. For me it’s a no-brainer. It’s also worth mentioning that the three tools that I recommend all offer quick customer support and future protection against the next wave of viruses.

Are you sick and tired of worrying about the safety and security of your computer? Find out how to remove Spyware Protect 2009 with one of my recommended auto-removal tools right now!

I was curious after reading about the Conficker C this morning;how many people would take it seriously and others think of it as a joke. Still be careful outthere.
your welcome for the 2pts if you answered.

I’m pretty sure I have conficker or some similar virus that wont let me access Microsoft or BitDefender, and Threatfire is the only anti-virus program i can download with out the virus keeping me from the website.

Security of IT infrastructure means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction. The next year, 2010 will be the year of constant change. Also, adoption of cloud computing, social media, 3G/4G, web based apps and virtualization technologies will require more security concerns due to emergence of new cybercriminal methods such as ransom-ware and Crime as a Service will threaten the enterprise segment at large.

The feature here discusses about various security trends for the upcoming 2010.

Security with Antivirus is not appropriate in Virtual-clouds

At present, various organizations are adopting cloud-based services that open them to many risks and infections as data travels to and from protected networks through a public pipe, creating many more opportunities for data infection or theft. Therefore, such organizations should consider suitable security measures to counter the issue.

Further, the much hyped virtualization technology, which allows companies? business application to be managed by host?s hardware, will be a key in securing virtual movements on the servers. Hence, the increment in the malware activities during 2009, the industry should realize that the traditional approach of antivirus is not sufficient for such threats.

Social Engineering: A Major concern

Social engineering is the act of maneuvering people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. Various web criminals adopt such practices and never come face-to-face with the victim. Therefore, security companies like Symantec has suggested that such practices will surely increase in 2010.

Microsoft?s Windows 7

Microsoft?s Windows 7 is the most secure version from the software giant?s desktop operating system. However, the company had already released the first security patches for it. But, as always there could be some security lapses in the software, which can be exploited by hackers. Therefore, the Windows 7 could be a major focus in 2010.

Hype in Social Networking Apps

Today, various people are just crazy about social networking. But recently, Facebook users had discovered that on various quiz apps, they are providing vast amounts of personal information on the networking site.

Further on Facebook, users can load third-party applications, which are the simple widgets that are adding sparkle to friends’ profiles. After the user is allowed to install the widgets, these apps are displayed as small icons on the profile. However, it is found that sometimes these apps are compromised with viruses. Therefore, in 2010, the apps on the social networking would be of prime concern.

CAPTCHA Technology

CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. To fight against spammers and web attackers, which works in automated modes, the CAPTCHA technology will help the industry in 2010.

Win32 Conficker worm

Conficker worm had attacked defense computers in Britain and France besides German military systems in February, 2009. After that it is reported that Conficker C or April Fool?s virus will hit the world on April 1. However, a Conficker worn was discovered on April 7 called as Conficker E. Microsoft had announced that it will offer $250,000 to the person who will provide information about the culprit, but the investigation is still continuing. Hence, the Conficker worm would be a major concern for the next year.

CaaS vs. SaaS

SaaS or Security-as-a-service will offer services to protect against cyber-risk, but now cyber-criminals recasting the SaaS model to implement their own CaaS (Crime-as-a-Service approach).

I’ve been hearing a lot about that virus conficker thats suppose to infect computers tomarrow on april fools, i was wondering how serious will the attack be, and what can i do to protect my computer