Windows 7 RTM SDK New Win32 Samples
Along with Windows 7 Microsoft is also cooking the software development kit for the next iteration of the Windows client.
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3.7.2009 Windows 7 testers - RC is a clean install
The latest post on Microsoft’s Engineering Windows 7 blog outlines what existing Windows 7 beta testers will have to do in order to be able upgrade to the release candidate.
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9.4.2009 Vista Hands On #4: Clean install with an upgrade key
I've been reading
the breathless reports this week about the "Vista upgrade loophole." Most of it is typical echo-chamber stuff, and most of the reports I've read so far have gotten the basic facts wrong.
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19.2.2007 No Boot Clean Installs Using Windows Vista Upgrade Discs
Although it has been discussed to death here, some official coverage on the front page is needed. Thanks to Ambiance for posting a direct response from Microsoft about the issue.
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28.1.2007 Workaround Discovered For "Clean Install" With Vista Upgrade DVDs
DailyTech has posted a 7-step workaround courtesy of Paul Thurrott (via Microsoft internal documents) on how to perform a clean install with a Windows Vista Upgrade DVD.
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31.1.2007 Free Avira AntiVir Rescue System CD to Clean Unremovable Virus
Previously I’ve written about Kaspersky offering free Rescue Disk to clean virus without booting in to Windows.
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28.6.2008 Trojan Remover 6.5.8
Trojan Remover was written to aid in the removal of Trojan Horses and Internet Worms when standard anti-virus software has either failed to detect the problem or is unable to effectively eliminate it.
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6.3.2007 Trojan Remover 6.6.1
Trojan Remover aids in the removal of Malware - Trojan Horses, Worms, Adware, Spyware - when standard anti-virus software either fails to detect them or fails to effectively eliminate them. Standard antivirus programs are good at detecting this Malware, but not always so good at effectively removing it.
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20.6.2007 Trojan Demands Ransom from Victims
A new trojan is making its rounds on the Internet, freezing up victims' computers and then demanding a ransom be paid through Western Union. Called "ransomware," the viruses have been around in Russia for several months, but the first English variants appeared in March.
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27.4.2006 Windows Vista crack is actually a trojan?
Malware makers are starting to take advantage of the number of users searching for cracks for the pirated copies of Vista floating around.
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4.12.2006 E-Mail About Windows Live Messenger Really A Trojan
Helsinki-based F-Secure told users to ignore instant messages with the subject head "MSN Messenger 8 Working BETA" that go on to claim that "Messenger 8 BETA has been leaked!"
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28.12.2005 New MSN Messenger Trojan Spreading Quickly
An MSN Messenger Trojan is growing a botnet by hundreds of infected PCs per hour.
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19.11.2007 Trojan poses as Windows screen to collect data
Symantec has warned of a Trojan that has posed as a Windows activation program and duped users into entering credit card information.
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7.5.2007 MS: Trojan Horses Increase 300 Percent
If your system gets hacked, chances are it will be from a Trojan. A Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) Security Intelligence report tabulated a 300 percent increase in the number of Trojan downloaders and droppers the last half of 2007 -- a trend which security experts say will continue to exponentially grow.
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24.4.2008 Leaked Windows 7 RC torrents infected with trojan
Various torrents of the Windows 7 RC have been infected with a trojan that, if allowed to run successfully, could open a security hole in a user’s system.
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29.4.2009 Trojan Emits Bogus, Risqu? Google AdSense Ads
A Trojan horse program is churning out bogus Google ads promoting products Google eschews?gambling, cheap Viagra, girlie photos and adult dating.
The ads, being targeted at small publishers, are identical to Google AdSense ads except that referral graphic buttons are being converted to text, apparently due to a bug in the Trojan, according to the publisher who reportedly discovered the Trojan. That publisher, Raoul Bangera, told Techshout.com that the non-contextual and risqu? content of the ads are what set them apart from regular AdSense ads.
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1.1.2006 iWork '09 trojan infects 20,000 pirates
Karma, no matter what you do it will come back to bite you where it hurts the most. Up to 20,000 pirates who thought they would get away without paying for iWork '09 have learned that the hard way.
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23.1.2009 Fake Windows patch e-mail leads to Trojan horse attack
Messages insisting that users install a just-released Microsoft Corp. security update are bogus and actually lead to a site that plants malicious code on PCs, several security companies warned today.
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28.6.2007New Cell Phone Virus Jumps to
PCs
European security firm
F-Secure on Wednesday detailed
a new mobile phone trojan that
attacks Symbian based phones
with a new trick: the
potential to jump to a PC if
the phone's memory card is
inserted into a computer.
Cardtrap.A actually contains a
payload of two Windows worms,
Win32/Padobot.Z and
Win32/Rays...
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23.09.2005LiveMessenger Trojan in the Wild
Roger Halbheer: At the moment we are tracking a Trojan that is spreading through Messenger and AIM. It is called Win32/Pushbot.BD and you can find
additional information on our
Malware Protection
Center.
This just give me the opportunity to remind you that you definitely should make sure that files that are downloaded
via IM are scanned by your AV-engine. How to do that? Well, it is described
here.
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29.01.2008Beware of fake Microsoft security alerts
With Microsoft's monthly
patch release expected on
Tuesday, scammers are sending
out fake security bulletins
that attempt to install
malicious software on
victim's computers.
The e-mail messages claim
to describe a "Cumulative
Security Update for Internet
Explorer" that fixes a
critical security flaw in the
browser. It comes with a link
entitled "Download this
update."
When users
click on this link, they are
taken to a server that
attempts to install malicious
software known as
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.
avk. This Trojan software then
attempts to reach out to other
computers on the Internet in
order to install more programs
on the victim's computer...
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09.06.2007Zbot trojan creators arrested in London
Police in London have arrested two people on suspicion that they created the ZeuS or Zbot trojan that infected many computers around the world. The
couple used the trojan for monetary gain but authorities did not disclose how much money was stolen. The trojan installed itself on victims computers
using social engineer techniques. Generally the trojan would mask itself as a reputable website such as a bank, credit card company or tax office to
get the victim to install the software. "Once installed, the Zbot Trojan injects itself into the victim's Web browser and monitors all
traffic.
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19.11.2009More Mysteries of the Win32 MessageBox Bug Revealed
Continued tests by BetaNews on
the form of the Win32 API
message box call discovered
two weeks ago, capable of
crashing Microsoft Windows
Vista as well as earlier
versions, indicates that while
the executable code remains a
problem, its capacity for
damage to Windows computers
may be limited to merely
crashing the system...
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03.01.2007Trojan Hides Itself as Firefox
Extension
Security firm McAfee warned of
a new trojan that installs
itself as a Firefox extension
on Tuesday, saying it had
found Web sites linking to a
virus known as FormSpy. The
trojan captures personal
information and sends it to a
Web site...
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27.07.2006Symantec: Trojan has 400 banks on its hitlist
A Trojan dubbed Silentbanker targets more than 400 banks including the household names in the U.S. and other financial institutions abroad and hangs
in the background to intercept transactions with two-factor authentication, according to researchers at Symantec. In a day full of the usual Trojan
attacks (they all sort of look alike after awhile) the sheer versatility of Trojan.Silentbanker is notable.
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15.01.2008Windows CE Trojan out in the wild, say researchers
US-CERT is warning of a Trojan that puts the users of Microsoft's mobile operating system at risk for data disclosure...
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27.02.2008Trojan, distributed over torrent, blocks torrent sites
A trojan named Troj/Qhost-AC, has been spotted on torrent sites labeled as a keygen for popular software. But in a strange surprise, the trojan would
modify the users host file, rather than generating a key, changing popular torrent web sites like, The Pirate Bay, Suprbay (The Pirate Bay forum) and
Mininova, the two most popular torrent sites on the internet to 127.0.0.1, making it impossible to visit these sites. The Trojan caused pop-ups on
users screens and played a sound file saying "downloading is wrong". The Trojan didn't install any other spyware or malware onto the victims
PC, other than blocking the three web sites, something that many users thought was strange.
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06.01.2009First Trojan for iPhone discovered in the wild
F-Secure said that it had uncovered the first Trojan horse for the iPhone, which seems to erase users' files in their /bin directory...
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09.01.2008Free Trojan Removal Tool for OS X Available Now
SecureMac has introduced a free Trojan Detection Tool for Mac OS X. The DNSChanger Removal Tool detects and removes spyware targeting Mac OS X. Called
DNSChanger Trojan and also known as OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse the software attacks users attempting to play a fake video file. Upon attempting to play
the video, the victim receives the following message: "Quicktime Player is unable to play movie file. Please click here to download new version of
codec."
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10.01.2008Potential pirates, not Vista, get cracked
35 days before Windows XP was
officially released, a pirated
key, called the "devils0wn",
began circulating around the
web which allowed users to run
a pirated copy of the
operating system. Since then,
the key has been used
thousands of times and is now
a part of Windows XP history.
Trying to follow in
devils0wn's footsteps, a new
crack for Windows Vista is
rumored to have become
available. Called "Windows
Vista All Versions Activation
21.11.06", the key reportedly
unlocks any version of Vista.
Sounds great for pirates,
right? Maybe it is, depending
where you stand on software
piracy.
Those who
download "Windows Vista All
Versions Activation 21.11.06"
will end up with anything but
a cracked version of Vista.
The file is neither a crack
nor key generator, but it is a
trojan installer that installs
the malware known as
"Trojan-PSW.Win32.LdPinch.aze
." According to APC Magazine,
most antivirus scanners will
recognize the trojan, but
NOD32 and Norton's latest
signatures do not.
While most of us dread the
thought of a new piece of
malware in the wild, it's
hard not to like the motive
behind this trojan.
Nevertheless, any propagation
of malware is a bad thing so
I'm happy to hear that most
scanners can stop this one.
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06.12.2006Panda Labs warns of talking virus
Computer users should be wary
of a new virus that deletes
important files and then
hijacks the sound card to say
"Your system files have been
deleted. Sorry."
It's a new Trojan
detected by
Panda
Labs, the company behind
the fourth largest security
software suite Panda Software.
Users who catch the
BotVoice.A
Trojan will hear the
phrase, "You have been
infected. I repeat, you have
been infected and your system
files have been deleted.
Sorry. Have a nice day and
bye bye," on a continuous
loop while the virus attempts
to wipe the hard drive clean...
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06.07.2007From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows User's Conversion to Mac OS X
Ars' Peter Bright wrote an article today entitled "
From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac
OS X", in which he explains why he believes "Windows is dying, Windows applications suck, and Microsoft is too blinkered to fix any of
it". These are rather harsh words, but there is a definitive element of truth in it. The article is part one in a three-part series.
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22.04.2008Mac Trojan hits pirated copies of Adobe Photoshop
Although Apple's Macintosh environment has long been touted by its fans as "more secure" than Windows, a Trojan enabling remote control of
Mac machines struck a second time this week.
Earlier found only in illegal copies of Apple's iWork Suite, the Trojan has now turned up in
pirated copies of Adobe Photoshop for Mac OS X. Actually, the Trojan doesn't even exploit any OS vulnerability. Instead, it disguises itself as part
of the installer package for the application, so it is installed along with the application. Once installed, the malware launches a back door program,
thereby allowing an attacker to remotely conduct misdeeds such as copying data.
A tool for detecting and removing specifically this Trojan is
now available from
SecureMac.com...
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29.01.2009Kaspersky Detects New Worms Attacking MySpace and Facebook
Kaspersky Labs, has detected two variants of a new worm, Networm.Win32.Koobface.a. and Networm.Win32.Koobface.b, which attack MySpace and Facebook
users.
The worms transform victims machines into zombie computers to form botnets which are used to create DDOS attacks and send spam
email.
Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.a infects the user when they access accesses their MySpace account. The worm creates a range of commentaries
to friends' accounts.
Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b, targets Facebook users, creates spam messages and sends them to the infected
users' friends via the Facebook site.
The messages and comments include texts such as "Paris Hilton Tosses Dwarf On The Street";
"Examiners Caught Downloading Grades From The Internet"; "Hello; You must see it!!! LOL. My friend catched you on hidden cam"; "Is it really
celebrity? Funny Moments and many others".
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01.08.2008Zero-Day PowerPoint Exploit
Surfaces
Symantec on Wednesday issued
an advisory about a new trojan
that takes advantage of an
undocumented vulnerability in
PowerPoint to infect a
victim's computer with a
backdoor. The malware, dubbed
Trojan.PPDropper.B, uses a
malformed string to execute
code...
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14.07.2006Spanish Trojan Targets Online
Bankers
Antivirus firm Panda Software
warned Tuesday of a new trojan
called Nabload.U that has
begun to spread worldwide
through MSN Messenger and
attempts to obtain passwords
of Spanish-speaking online
banking users...
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27.12.2005Mac OS X Trojan reported in the wild
At least two Mac-focused security firms warned late this week of a Trojan horse that takes advantage of flaws in remote management software in Mac OS
X to run code on the affected computer...
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20.06.2008Trojan Demands Ransom from
Victims
A new trojan is making its
rounds on the Internet,
freezing up victims'
computers and then demanding a
ransom be paid through Western
Union. Called
"ransomware," the
viruses have been around in
Russia for several months, but
the first English variants
appeared in March...
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