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It used to be that end-of-year security predictions were bold and almost science-fictiony. They as vgp-bps8 have become more conservative this year and therefore more reasonable. I’ve been barraged with them and have attempted to collect the best here.

It’s clear to me and many others like that the major security development of 2009 was the emergence of rogue security software, a.k.a. “scareware,” as the biggest problem out there for most users. Rogues have been around for years, but their escalation in 2009 was palpable. Many of the 2010 predictions have to do with where rogues go next, and this is a reasonable line of speculation. Rogues are about making money more directly than prior forms of malware, and the predictions deal with how they plan to do that.

Security vendor Fortinet predicts expansion of some of the 2009 rogueware trends: affiliate networks and ransomware. We have reported recently on rogueware that encrypts your files and demands money for a decryption key. They also foresee increased sophistication of rogueware business models, including expanded affiliate networks, although these were news over a year ago.

Symantec as has been moving for a while in the direction of relying on reputation as a major factor in determining the security of files and other data, and this factor leads the predictions for 2010 from MessageLabs, Symantec’s secure e-mail hosting service. For large companies like Symantec with customers and honeypots world-wide, reputation is an invaluable tool. For smaller actors there have been predictions for years (from yours truly, for example) of more open markets for reputation services. These companies exist and may be doing well, but their rise has been subtle so far. Nothing about 2010 should make them more prominent.

For the most part Symantec’s predictions are low-hanging fruit and undifferentiated from the pack: social engineering will be the major hook (it has been for years), rogues will escalate (everyone says this, it’s obvious), social networking third-party apps will be target of fraud (this has been happening this year, of course it will continue and accelerate), URL shortening will be popular with phishers (and has been for a while). They do predict that CAPTCHA technology will improve, which would be good, but that the use of real people in CAPTCHA sweat shops to solve them will increase.

Another Fortinet prediction has to do with the growth of the money mule business, and this too seems reasonable. We first started hearing about as sonywidespread use of money mules a few months ago. A weak economy will make easy money schemes more tempting, but the real news is about schemes by ID thieves to scam other people into laundering funds unwittingly.

F-Secure’s Security Threat Forecast 2010 is one of the better ones like 7 will sell a lot in 2010, XP will drop below 50%, this will severely cut the amount of low-hanging fruit for attackers?I agree entirely; I’ve seen this coming for years and I think 2010 is the year it really begins to happen. It as could have been earlier if Vista hadn’t been so poorly-received.

IP-based geolocation will allow attackers to localize their messages?Some of this happens already, but it’s true that it’s growing and it’s an obvious way for attackers to grow internationally, or even to customize locally within national markets. “We may see a large-scale internal attack lenovo t61 battery against a target such as Google Wave.”?Interesting and plausible, but just a guess. “Attacks related to online games will continue. Such sites and games are particularly popular in the Asia-Pacific region. Not enough focus is put on securing them and the problem will be further fueled by the fact that many users are younger and therefore more vulnerable to experienced cyber-criminals.”?We really don’t see so much of this in the US, but it’s a big issue in the far east. Perhaps there are ways those attacks could migrate over here.

It’s a staple of yearly predictions that heretofore untouched platforms will see attacks for the first time. I can’t remember the last time that next year wasn’t the first year of real mobile malware, and yet it never really materialized, especially in the US. Many vendors make the usual predictions in this regard, but nobody has anything specific to say and it’s hard to get too worked up about it. This time it’s not just mobiles and the Mac, but Vista and Windows 7, both of which are uncommon targets for malware.

What could make things better in 2010? It’s just a business phenomenon, but my money’s on application whitelisting, as I argued last month. For years it’s been understood by many that blocking (blacklisting) new threats was a strategy losing out from sheer volume against the tidal wave of new malware variants. Wouldn’t it be better to approve what is known to be good and to reject everything else? New business-oriented tools make this practical, whereas in the past it was a difficult approach to implement. Sadly, consumer-oriented whitelisting is only primitive at this point and will remain so in 2010.

I spoke with Sam Curry, Chief Technology Officer, Marketing, at RSA about their expectations for the new year. Curry picks up on the theme of rogue vendors and other malefactors looking for better ways to make money and points to some of the less-obvious trends: They will focus less on the big score and instead find ways to bleed you slowly so that you don’t notice that you’re being taken. We saw this recently in the case of a bank Trojan that tried to keep withdrawals low enough that they wouldn’t get noticed. He also sees rogues looking to offer more actual value to users in an attempt to make the sale. This could include utilities like system optimizers of dubious value, but we’ve already had reports of rogue products built on free anti-virus systems like ClamAV which are actual AV products, but not necessarily all that good in any one distribution.

Curry’s real hope for security is industry collaboration: Security firms already talk to each other a lot and even share research, but a lot more could be done. I agree with Curry that this could help, but I suspect that companies will always be more self-interested than public-spirited, and perhaps they should be. A lot of talking was done last year about the Federal Government acting through a new “cybersecurity czar,” but nobody seems to want that position (including RSA’s President Art Coviello, who was reported to have turned it down recently).

Coviello sent out his own predictions to press folks like me. He says they see a rise in coordinated attacks with the goal of harvesting PII (personally identifiable information) from systems. Don’t be surprised if such information is combined in sophisticated databases with other information, public and semi-public, like Facebook profiles. There’s a lot of information out there about you, and if someone could put it all together they might be able to impersonate you with it. To combat these trends Coviello sees cloud-based security services as essential and he’s got a point. Such coordinated systems can know a lot more, and stay more up to date.

Websense has their own list of security trends for 2010. Much of it is the same (mobile malware, Macs attacked, etc.) but there are more interesting ones. We saw in 2008 examples of malware distributors going beyond infecting ad banners and instead buying actual ad space. Websense expects more of this and I wouldn’t be surprised by it. It takes money to make money. They also predict that “web 2.0″ sites will be popular targets. I agree, but I think it has less to do with “web 2.0″ than the fact that the sites are popular.

Trend Micro’s 2010 Future Threat Report has one observation that has been largely true for a while, but should be uncontroversial by now: Global outbreaks will become extinct and localized, targeted attacks will grow. The closest thing to such an attack we’ve had recently is Conficker and it’s clearly the exception to the rule. Other eye-catching bullet points in the Trend Micro report: “Windows 7 will have an impact since it is less secure than Vista in the default configuration“?(Wow, that’s bold. They must be talking about UAC changes. I think the security impact will be minor.) “Bots can’t be stopped anymore and will be around forever“?(Sad but true.)

Even cherry-picking aggressively I’ve covered a lot of ground here. Overall I’m optimistic. Even if we know that some problems can’t be solved, I think we know more than ever about how individual users and companies can protect themselves, if they want to take the time and money to do so. New secure versions of products and tools to use are better than ever.

Anyone that has fought Virusremover Professional can tell you that it is no walk in the park, but then fighting any type of rogue application can bring a Buddhist Monk to the brink of violence. Fighting these infections can take hours and in some cases the rogue application can reinstall as soon as the computer is restarted.

The battle against rogue applications is not going away, but there are several things all computer users can do to prevent themselves from fighting these parasites on their own computers. It all boils down to having the proper protection and knowing how these infections work so they can be avoided.

Virusremover Professional along with the majority of rogue applications infect computers with the help of the Zlob Trojan. The rogue applications that do not use the Zlob Trojan use the Vundo Trojan. Both of these Trojans work in much the same manner, but the Zlob Trojan tends to have more versatility and has more variants then the Vundo Trojan.

These Trojans can quickly bypass most standard virus protection software and once that is done, the Trojan will then begin to install various types of malware and rogue applications. If the Trojan is designed to install Virusremover Professional then that is when the rogue application takes over.

Once installed this rogue will usually wait until the computer is rebooted before it makes its presences known, but that is not always the case. As soon as the computer is finished rebooting, the program will display a popup that looks very much like a virus scan, but in reality the scan is completely bogus.

After the scan, the rogue will show the user a list of fake threats and offer the user the chance to remove the threats, if the user buys a full version of the software. Nothing on the list of threats is real and anyone that pays for a full version will only have less money.

One of the most annoying things about any rogue application is the redirected web browsers. Knowing your computer is infected and having your computer web browser redirected away from sites that can help, is frustrating to say the least.

Many professionals recommend that unless the user is completely knowledgeable about how to properly remove malware, it is best to install a trusted program that can prevent the infection in the first place. When looking for a malware protection and removal program it is best to get a program with a 100% guarantee. Never settle for any type of computer protection program that does not have a 100% guarantee.

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i have a trojan downloader and avg picks it up but it keeps on coming back, i have spyware terminator, and maleware bytes anti maleware and they say they removed them but the computer is still running pretty slow and it keeps on picking up other viruses please help!

Just like that old saying “if it sounds to good to be true then it’s because it is” That’s my only hold back in deciding on what internet security program to buy or use free.

i have a trojan downloader and avg picks it up but it keeps on coming back, i have spyware terminator, and maleware bytes anti maleware and they say they removed them but the computer is still running pretty slow and it keeps on picking up other viruses please help!