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 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 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 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 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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28.6.2007 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 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 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 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 Windows XP SP3 Twice as Fast as Windows Vista – Leaves Vista SP1 in the Dust
Forget about Windows Vista. And forget about Windows Vista SP1. Microsoft's latest Windows client has been quite sluggish to begin with. This in both consumer adoption and in terms of the performance it delivers.
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27.11.2007 Windows Vista Wow! Forget about Vista SP1, XP SP3 and Windows 7!
That's it, forget about Windows XP Service Pack 3, about Windows 7, the next iteration of Windows and even about Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
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1.2.2008 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008 Microsoft Makes Its Own: 32-bit Windows Vista vs. 64-bit Windows Vista
With Windows Vista, Microsoft delivered both the 32-bit and 64-bit flavors concomitantly, a first for the company, whose Windows XP x64 Professional (April, 2005) was launched one year after Windows XP SP2 (August 2005) and four after the initial 32-bit Windows XP (2001).
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8.1.2008 Microsoft: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP – Definitely Vista!
As far as Microsoft is concerned there is only one choice possible in terms of desktop clients. But Windows Vista is also the clear option over Windows XP when it comes down to the Redmond company's preferred operating system for mobile PCs.
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6.9.2007 Genuine Windows Vista vs. Pirated Windows Vista
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Essentially there is absolutely no difference between a genuine and pirated copy of Windows Vista in terms of functionality. Sure, there is a very good chance that the counterfeit version of the operating system would contain malicious code and that the user experience would be gravely diminished because the fabric of the platform has been tampered with in the cracking process.
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12.9.2007 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009Windows 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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27.02.2008Zbot 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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19.11.2009Trojan 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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15.01.2008Potential 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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06.12.2006Russian Windows Trojan Discovered, May Point to Identity Theft Ring
The Atlanta-based security
services firm SecureWorks
discovered, by way of an
inquiry from one of its
Windows customers, what
appears to be a very
sophisticated Trojan horse
program that delivers users'
certificates and other
identifying data to a variety
of IP addresses based in
Russia...
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24.03.2007Is Vista x86 a Trojan Horse for Windows7 (Vienna) after-all?
OK so here's the question
"what does it take to kill
the 32bit platform and
Microsoft's Windows Vista OS,
not even a year out of its
beta code"?
Answer: 4GB ram + GPU with
on board memory
I
take an alternative and purely
speculative look at the Vista
32bit 4GB Memory limit. And
why it may become the most
compelling reason to upgrade
to Windows 7 (Vienna) and an
answer to why Microsoft
allowed Vista to take 5 years
of development to get to
RTM
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02.08.2007Mac 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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29.01.2009Trojan, 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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10.01.2008Pirated Windows 7 Builds a Botnet With Trojan
Attackers pushing pirated, malware-laced copies of Windows 7 have been actively trying to build a botnet.
According to
researchers at Damballa, attackers hid a Trojan inside of pirated copies of the operating system and began circulating them on BitTorrent sites. The
company reported they shut down the botnet's command and control server May 10, however by that time infection rates had risen as high as 552 users
per hour.
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13.05.2009Half of Pirated Vista is Malware
According to security vendor
DriveSentry, about half of
downloads claiming to be free
versions of Microsoft Windows
Vista are in fact malicious
Trojan horses. With Vista's
consumer launch just days
away, discussion boards and
peer-to-peer networks are full
of offers of "cracked"
versions of Windows Vista. The
downloaded programs claim to
skip Vista's activation
process but are in fact
malicious key-logging software
and spyware. This isn't
anything new though, the same
deal occurred with Windows XP.
Pirated versions of Vista have
been in circulation for
several months now, and one
called "Windows Vista All
Versions Activation 21.11.06"
has already been identified as
a Trojan. It's an effective
technique, said John Lynch,
vice president of sales and
marketing for DriveSentry.
" Someone that's stealing
the software to begin with is
not going to raise a fuss if
the software turns out to be
malicious ."
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26.01.2007Zero-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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14.07.2006US-CERT Warns of Microsoft Windows CE Trojan
The WinCE/InfoJack Trojan hijacks the infected device's serial number, operating system and other information and uploads it to an
attacker-controlled Web site. The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team has raised an alert for an in-the-wild malware attack against Microsoft
Windows CE powered mobile devices. According to the US-CERT warning, the Trojan horse program is capable of disabling Windows Mobile application
installation security.
The Trojan, dubbed WinCE/InfoJack by anti-virus vendor McAfee, has been programmed to hijack the infected
device's serial number, operating system and other information and upload it to a Web site controlled by the attacker. "It also leaves the
infected mobile device vulnerable by allowing silent installation of malware. The Trojan modifies the infected device's security setting to allow
unsigned applications to be installed without a warning," McAfee said in a post on its Avert Labs blog.
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27.02.2008Spanish 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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27.04.2006Trojan Remover 6.5.5
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. The
majority of Virus and Trojan
Scanners are well able to
detect malicious Trojan Horses
and Internet Worms but are not
always very efficient in
removing them once they have
been triggered.Trojan Remover
was written specifically to
carry out such a removal
without the user having to
manually edit system files,
including the Registry. The
program also removes the
additional system
modifications some Trojans
carry out which are ignored by
other Virus and Trojan
Scanners. You can download a
free fully-working evaluation
copy of Trojan Remover by
clicking on the download link
below. The program will work
for a full 30 days, after
which it will expire -
registration costs
$29.00.
Changes in this
version
* Converted helpfiles to
HTMLHelp for Windows Vista
compatability.
* Minor
bug-fixes.
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24.12.2006Symantec Finds Yet Another Excel Trojan Variant
It may be a single malicious
user with an axe to grind, and
that user may be targeting a
very small group of people who
just happen to use Microsoft
Excel. But whoever it is
continues to make security
firms like Symantec nervous,
as yet another Excel-based
document with a malformed
image string, dubbed
Trojan.Mdropper.Y , has
turned up...
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