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 […]
Are you waiting for a delivery from Amazon.com? Then be careful…. If you receive a below notification in your email, as it could be that hackers are trying to trick you into infecting your computer. When we click on “Shop Now & Save”, it downloads the file in a zip format, which contain the malicious […]
It’s the festive time of the year and many of you may be thinking of purchasing things online. In today’s busy world it is always convenient to buy things online. This is the time when the online fraud is also on the rise. Lot of “fly by night” business website started to appear. These untrustworthy […]
Recently I came across a software claiming itself as HDD Diagnostic. Just as rogueware applications, I found this computer optimizers as threat which seems to be causing many problems. As seen from the below image Fake Hard Drive Diagnostic pretends to be legitimate software. However, this software does not improve the performance of your PC […]
A Phishing email which is targeting the ICICI bank with subject line: Important Alert From (ICICI BANK) has been noticed on or radar It has a html file as an attachment,which contains a link: www.icicibank.com/secure/online-access. I have analysed the Htm file and found that it contains a fraudulent link https:// www.rockcrosses.com/online. php , which get […]
If you plan on looking for the latest Black Friday deals online. Cyber criminals are quick to capitalize on new opportunities and have already done so by optimizing their Blackhat SEO campaigns to infect those looking for those hot ticket item deals. When searched in Google it returned malicious search result aimed at innocent users […]
