The AVAR (Association of Anti Virus Asia Research) 2007 conference was held in Seoul, Korea on November 28 to 30 2007 AVAR 2007 The AVAR conference is held every year which is attended by most of security professional. Presentation on latest Malware Trends, New Anti Malware Technology, Cyber crime other security issue were discussed. From […]
We’ve released Quick Heal Upgrade 2008 for Quick Heal AntiVirus Plus, Quick Heal Lite and Quick Heal Total Security on 17th November 2007. Users can download and apply the upgrade to get the latest protection against new threats. New features and enhancements introduced in 2008 products are: Quick Heal Antivirus Plus 2008 / Quick Heal […]
Vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Reader 8.1 on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file, related to the mailto: option and Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP. More info and patches available on Adobe site. CVE-2007-5020
Here are some screen shot of some of the fake/rouge AntiVirus, AntiSpyWare which we detect. The threat landscape has changed along with the skill of malcode authors. If you have come across such application let us know: viruslab at quickheal dot com
One more time a worm is spreading through SKYPE. Its detected as Worm.Skipi.a. It uses the chat function of Skype to send a short message containing a link to a seemingly benign JPEG file to other users. Users that click on the link will download and run a copy of the worm, and start to […]
Storm snip NFL season is about to start, the storm worm authors have started using this to catch some of you.
We are getting reports of Axis bank and ICICI bank users being targeted by phishing mail. If you receive any mail from any source which looks like your bank requesting for your account or personal details, please do not provide it. Contact your bank and verify it.
We Wish All Indian’s a Happy Independence Day . Maintaining Security is the duty of every Citizen . Let us be committed to our responsibility . Thanking you , Quick Heal Team.
We have received numerous emails today regarding yet another round of spam hitting the cyberwaves. This spam is nothing more than a new twist on the pump and dump stock market emails. The emails include a ZIP or RAR file for an attachment. Once opened, these contain nothing more than the get rich quick stock […]
A month back I bloged about the paradigm shift in Spam Image to PDF and now its Microsoft Excel files. We have just received a sudden flood of stock pump-n-dump attachment Spam, this time using the XLS format instead of PDF. Spammers are sending the same XLS files wrapped within ZIP files too. At present […]
