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  • Trojan horse proxy.ahiy and AVG

    A lot of people seem to be reporting today that AVG is finding files to be infected with trojan horse proxy.ahiy or trojan horse proxy ahiy. From what I’ve seen, although that may be a valid virus designation from AVG, they are also reporting many legitimate files as this trojan proxy ahiy. AVG is acknowledging that they are getting false positives from the current virus database and are saying that the next update of their virus database the issue should be resolved.

    Further they offer the following advise if legitimate files have been quarantined due to this:

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  • Would you like spyware with that? Apple too….

    These stories come up from time to time. A free giveaway of some sort and it turns out that there’s spyware or a virus embedded, company gives a big “whoops” and fixes things by replacing them…. McDonalds had a promotion going where up to 10,000 people could win a flash based mp3 player they also received a trojan horse preinstalled…. They’ve apologized and are swapping the infected players and giving information on how to clean up a pc with the keylogger. According to f-secure it was infected with the QQPass password-stealing trojan. Just imagine how things would have turned out if the Greeks had looked that gift horse from the trojans in the mouth first…..

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  • Beware visiting Samsung’s site

    Betanews is reporting that Samsung’s site has been hacked and is currently serving up malware in some areas. user intervention is required for it to run on the users pc, but be cautious. Samsung has been notified, but as of Friday morning (according to the report) the trojan horse is still there. I really wonder if it hasn’t occured to them to pull the whole thing offline to clean things up?

  • Pretty, shiny usb drive is all it takes to compromise security….

    Sometimes you just want to cry… This writeup is an example of the “soft underbelly” of every network’s security plan… the users. Basically, you have a group that was hired to do a computer security audit of a credit union. They were told that some of the main concerns were social engineering (easy sharing of passwords among/from employees) and they were concerned about removable usb drives being used to copy data out of the credit union. So, they hatched an idea to try and make use of what they’d learned were the concerns. They prepared 20 usb keys with pictures and some “specially designed software” and scattered them in places where employees would find them… smoking areas, parking lot, etc.

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  • WMF 0-day exploit

    There seems to be a 0-day exploit involving WMF (Windows Meta File’s) according to SANS. Here’s their lead-in

    Just when we thought that this will be another slow day, a link to a working unpatched exploit in, what looks like Windows Graphics Rendering Engine, has been posted to Bugtraq.

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  • Disinfecting a PC… part 5

    OK, we’re moving on to BHOdemon to take care of the browser helper objects. Unfortunately it looks like BHODemon is not being currently maintained, the developer has had a housefire.

    I am very sorry, but BHODemon is currently on hiatus, as I no longer have the time to devote to it (due to a house fire). You will not be able to download updates or upload reports, and I will no longer be answering emails. At some point, BHODemon may return. I would like to thank everyone for their support over the years.

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