malicious software

For the past couple of months, the "new" version of the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool has been identified as an automatic update and then installs successfully each month. However, within minutues the automatic update tool tells me there is a new update to install and it lists the...

Hello, Today we released Security Advisory 2488013 to address a public vulnerability that could affect customers using Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 if they visit a website hosting malicious code. Currently the impact of this vulnerability is limited and we are not aware of any affected...

Hi everyone. As part of our usual cycle of monthly security updates, today Microsoft is releasing 17 bulletins addressing 40 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, SharePoint Server and Exchange. Two of those bulletins carry a Critical rating, while 14 are rated...

Money is the driving factor behind the rise of Computer Viruses, a security expert has calimed. The increasing amount of computer viruses being created can be attributed to money, it has been suggested. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, has claimed that organised...

Hi everyone, Today we released Link Removed due to 404 Error to address a new vulnerability that could impact Internet Explorer users if they visit a website hosting malicious code. As of now, the impact of this vulnerability is extremely limited and we are not aware of any affected customers...

Overview Today we released MicrosoftLink Removed due to 404 Error. This is different from other Microsoft Security Advisories because it's not talking about specific vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. Rather, this is our official guidance in response to security research that has outlined a...

A foreign spy agency pulled off the most serious breach of Pentagon computer networks ever by inserting a flash drive into a U.S. military laptop, a top defense official said Wednesday. The previously classified incident, which took place in 2008 in the Middle East, was disclosed in a...

Microsoft patching up Windows shortcut vulnerability today Later today, at 10 AM PDT (5 PM UTC), Microsoft is set to release an out of band update that will address the Windows Shell bug that enables malicious code to be executed when a user clicks the displayed icon of a specially crafted...

A new piece of malware is capable of killing the Windows boot process, according to Microsoft. Win32/Yonsole.A is a backdoor Trojan, a term that defines a piece of malicious code designed to compromise computers and subsequently connect to a server controlled by the attacker, receive and execute...

I am attempting to clean up a friends HP PC which is running Vista 32 bit SP2. I believe she has contracted a piece of malware by clicking on a photo in facebook (Is this a picture of you?). One of the symptoms is preventing the computer installing updates for Vista and Defender. I have...

Hello All, I tried using my CD-ROM Drive, which would not read any of my cd's. I looked in the Device manager, where I found the following error message under CD-ROM drive: Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers required for this device. A recent hardware or software...

Microsoft announced today two new updates will be shipped out on Tuesday (March 9th) at 1:00 pm EST. The 1st update addresses one or more vulnerabilities in Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. And affects the most recent service packs for XP and Vista, SP3 and SP2, respectively both 32- and 64- bit...

What is SQL Injection Attacks With the growing up of B/S model application development, more and more programmer write program with it. Unfortunately, many programmers did not judge the validity of users’ input data during encoding, and then, there will be security risk in...

Hi, I don't remember when this started, but whenever I boot my laptop it asks for my permission to run update.exe just after the start-up. When i click on Yes to allow it, it shows the following error message: "Run-time error 339: Component 'MSWINSCK.OCX' or one of its dependencies not...

So the one big thing that really bugs the heck outa me with Win7, is that it labels me as some malicous program. How would a computer think I'm being evil you may ask? Well go ahead and try and save an image from the internet by right clicking on it, and attempting to save it to a different...

Let's see... All of this happened right after I download something my friend showed me, but I stopped the download part way through and deleted the part of the .rar file. Kaspersky Antivirus completely fails When I go to the Windows Update page (with IE), it says I am not an Administrator...

i have an Acer Aspire 8930 laptop, it has been running smoothly since december 08, however a week ago some new windows updates came out and i installed them, i play wow online and have been since i got laptop and have never had a prob playing it, i play for something like 7 hours a day, yes...

:cool: Ok this is the disclamier section. All link and software related items found in this forum are subject to change. Links will come and go. DO NOT use the links in this forum for any malicious acts or behavior. They are simply here for you test your own software and systems as needed...