Few collection of SPAM mails Its holiday time, but it seem the Spammer are out there still working. We are seeing unusual growth in number of Spam mails on Vigra, Cialis and some phishing mails of online banks. On malware front we haven’t seen any major activities so far… We wish all our users and […]
We just received a Microsoft Word document file, which contains a new vulnerable exploit code. The flaw is due to a memory corruption error when handling a malformed document, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening malformed Word document. As of now we do not have […]
As we are nearing to the end of 2006, Microsoft had released the 3 critical and 4 important patch for this month. The patch released contains fixes for very critical vulnerability found in SNMP Buffer Overflow and Remote Installation Service. Which total a odd figure of 133 patch(Critical and Important) in total released so far. […]
If you regularly have to open .PDF files and are still using older version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, please switch to Adobe Acrobat 8.0. Multiple flaws has been reported in Acrobat Reader AcroReader Active X control. This flaw can be remotely exploited through a maliciously constructed web page with special purpose .PDF to view/download. Adobe […]
The last post on Zero Day CVE-2006-4777 had infomation about the new vulnerability which was discovered well before the Microsoft Patch Cycle. Yesterday Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification announced what the patch contains. They have not included fix for CVE-2006-4777Microsoft Security Advisory. So well before Microsoft action we have added detection for all the files […]
New vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Word, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. The flaw is due to memory corruption error while handling malformed document, which could be exploited by an attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking the user to open a specially crafted Word […]
From past 2 months Myspace has been in news. This time its a new vulnerability found in XSS. When the exploit code (i.e JavaScript) runs it redirect a user to other website. the redirected URL is a phishing URL which is used to steal the user name and password of Myspace account. The script also […]
We are still getting reports of I-Warezov in the wild. So we tested out our last released build of Quick Heal AV and Quick Heal TS with Virus Database date 1 Nov 2006. We were happy to notice that DNAScan succesfully removed/ blocked all mails having I-Warezov as suspicous file attachment. – Here is a […]
World AIDS Day, 1 December is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV and AIDS. For more details please visit Wiki defination and infomation UN AIDS info World AIDS campaign Educating people about this virus problem can eradicate it.
Copyright 2006, Linden Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved. A popular online multiplayer game ‘Second Life’ was shut down for a while when it was hit by a special purpose worm. The game allows the players to code the objects that can play role in the virtual game. Malicious users coded the object to self-replicate when […]