Tag Archive for: Malware

G Data Software Offers Free, Cloud-based Plugin for Real-time Protection against Malware and Phishing Attacks – Consumer Electronics Net

What: With the vast majority of malware infiltrating PCs through browsing websites, most antivirus software isn’t able to keep definitions up to date fast enough to provide effective surfing protection. To fill this gap, G Data Software is providing a free …
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London Stock Exchange Website Faces Malware Attack – PRLog (free press release)

The attack follows an earlier disruption associated … Once executed, the software seeks a message saying that the computer is infected and requires installation of anti-virus software. In the recent times, attackers have used sophisticated malware, which …
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Phishing scam and malware distribution scheme combined – Help Net Security

The Facebook phishing campaign spotted yesterday turned out not to be so unimaginative after all. F-Secure researchers decided to see it through and entered login credentials to a dummy account of theirs to see it it would get compromised. And immediately …
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Viruses, Spyware, and Malware: What’s the Difference? – PC Magazine

In a similar fashion a computer virus injects its code into an innocent program … likely to steal information or implement a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against a major web site. Worms are similar to viruses, but they don’t require the …
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