Autorun is a most common default feature in Windows operating systems. It was introduced in the Windows XP which enables media and devices to launch programs by use of commands listed in a file autorun.inf, stored in the root directory. Now a days this feature is mostly utilized by malware to infect the system. Since […]
Microsoft has warned all windows users about a publicly disclosed scripting vulnerability in MHTML protocol handler. This is a MIME Encapsulation of Aggregated HTML termed as MHTML which is used by applications to render certain kinds of documents. The vulnerability affects all users on Windows XP and later. The vulnerability could be exploited through any […]
Today I received mail claiming it has been sent from facebook as below. ************************************************ From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Facebook Support. A new password has been changed. ID4696 Date: Friday, January 28, 2011 3:36 PM Dear user of FaceBook. A Spam is sent from your FaceBook account. Your password has been changed for safety. Information […]
Facebook is the fastest growing social networking site in the world today with up to 250,000 new users being added every day. But sharing information has lots of risks including your name which can be accessed by others and your profile can be viewed. Anyone can get valuable information and private photos from your profile, […]
With the increasing number of people using Facebook, here comes another security risk. The website has said in a blog post that it would give developers of applications access to the contact information of users who install their apps. Facebook is putting at risk the phone numbers and addresses of its 500+ million users. While […]
New vulnerability that was disclosed during the end of December and confirmed by Microsoft as a security flaw in Internet Explorer is still unpatched. The vulnerability affected versions 6, 7 and 8 of Internet Explorer while handling recursive cascading style sheets (CSS). The number of websites that are reported to be compromised and are having […]
Most of you may already be aware of the Quick Heal’s laptop tracking service. For those who do not know, we have started a new initiative with the hope to recover stolen laptops by starting the service of tracking stolen laptops through the portal TrackMyLaptop.net. It offers a free service for individuals to trace their […]
We have shot a small video of just released Quick Heal 2011 products. We have tried to explain the new features of 2011 series. Abhijit Jorvekar, Swanand Shinde and Abhijit Kularni had done a wonderful job of presenting the features. It was our first attempt to make the video and I can see everybody had […]
It’s a common practice to send Christmas and new year e-greetings to friends and colleagues and other social network connections. However this is the time we see increase in spam and phishing scam emails with a fake e-cards every year. This year too we expect the trend to continue. At Quick Heal we are already […]
Microsoft has released a security advisory about the vulnerability in all supported versions of Internet Explorer. The advisory says that the mentioned vulnerability exists due to the creation of uninitialized memory during a CSS function within Internet Explorer. If an attacker exploited this vulnerability, the attacker could gain the same user rights as of the […]