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WinPatrol Plus Special Easter Discount 2008-03-21 12:39:57 Easter greetings to all WinPatrol users! Bill Pytlovany is offering a $10.00 discount to anyone who upgrades to WinPatrol Plus this Easter weekend.
What advantages are there to WinPatrol Plus?
Complete access to the WinPatrol PLUS KnowledgebaseWithin WinPatrol, click the “PLUS Info…” button and connect to the WinPatrol online database for information on the program in [...] Read more:Discount
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New Rogue - Awola 6.0 Anti-Spyware 2008-03-17 13:25:10 New day and a new rogue, Awola 6.0 Anti-Spyware
.
And just in case you get the impression we only report the odd rogues, because there are only the odd rogues. Then you will be wrong as many rogues get created and go live months after initial work. This can then add to dozens of rogues [...] Read more:Rogue
Are C-NetMedia havin’ a laugh? 2008-03-14 09:15:52 Rember me blogging about SPYwareREMOVER? Well, now, after several weeks since that article, we have a someone posting replies about this in our forum.
Going by the tag: chris_2squared, just Google and you will get my drift!
Discover all the laughs about this and visit the relevent topic this is happening at!
AVG/Grisoft going into the “toolbar” game? Answer - Yes! 2008-03-01 17:09:33 You know, this is getting tiresome. These last few months we’ve seen several respectable security programs and some non-respectable take the route into including toolbars with their products. We’ve seen Lavasoft in discussions with Ask.com, Webroot’s SpySweeper including a toolbar and then ZoneLabs doing the same aswell (although some are not the full toolbar, but [...]
SPYwareREMOVER - Another Rogue Anti-Spyware 2008-02-28 14:35:12 Whilst I have the opportunity to blog and catch up on things, I’d thought I’d update you on a new rogue anti-spyware roaming about on the net.
Called SPYwareRemover, this rogue displays a fake alert message and downloads, then instalsl the rogue. Their website also states several key words which can cause confusion and fool computer [...] Read more:Rogue
, Spyware
Valentine’s Day? More like “Headache Day”! 2008-02-14 16:06:03 OK, yesterday evening someone contacted us about something which concerned them. Especially yesterday of all days, valentine’s day, where a lot of money was to be earned.
… I want you to remember that before you move on. As it will play a part later on …
I will be focusing on 123greetings.com. This site is known [...] Read more:Headache
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“Valentines’ Day” Storm Trojan - Beware! 2008-02-11 10:33:10 As with every holiday and occasion in the world, guys behind malware will always create something to fool you with. Playing on emotions you could say.
The next malware to be careful about is a “Valentines
’ Day” StormTrojan
. A variant of the Storm Worms. Security Cadets reader and author of WinPatrol, Bill Pytlovany, goes into [...] Read more:Beware
A rogue on heat - VirusHeat 2008-02-08 09:25:18 First time in a long time that we have directly posted about a rogue. In fact it was over a month ago.
Today we will be highlighting a rogue called VirusHeat. And as you can figure from the screenshot below. This one is a variant/clone/sister of VirusProtect, VirusProtectPro and many more. No surprises there.
The details on [...]
Introducing Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware 2008-02-03 14:32:33 It’s been a long time since I last blogged about something useful. I’ve just been snowed under with several projects and training. However I wanted to pause all of that to introduce to you a new product out there in the security world. One I have had the pleasure to test and see grow.
Malware
bytes’ Anti-Malware
What [...] Read more:Introducing
I haven’t vanished! Honest! 2008-01-24 14:28:09 If you’re all wondering where I’ve got too or why I haven’t posted recently. Well I have been very busy with offline projects. One of which I cannot go into.
One project I can go into was to do with Burstwick United. Our village was on high flood alert these last seven days and that took [...]
Coming Soon! The biggest take down we’ve done! 2008-03-29 19:20:29 The title is making this teaser so big that you are almost expecting a result in my next blog post. The fact remains that this will take me sometime to research, however it will be awesome in it’s own right.
For now all I am going to add to this is: P2P sharing sites, and the [...] Read more:Coming Soon
This week and next … 2008-04-06 14:05:32 … should be as fun as it has ever been at SC. Why? How?
Well, all we will reveal is to make sure you log in over the next week or so for new additions being announced, games and competitions going on. And a special day on the 8th of April 2008 as the next month [...]
Official - We’re now two years old! 2008-04-08 16:41:16 Yes, it really is that long!. Securitycadets.com is now two years old! Amazing isn’t it? I am pleased we have reached this milestone for many reasons. I won’t go into them as they are obvious to many of you. But to those who have supported us, helped assiting users on our forum and just been [...] Read more:Official
Malware Bell - The latest rogue application 2008-04-14 14:58:31 It wasn’t going to take long before I would bring you yet another rogue application. Certainly nothing new when I include that the following is a clone of IE Defender and File Secure.
What it also tries to do is make sure several aspects of it’s website looks and feels like Microsoft. Their favicon is the [...] Read more:Malware
Securitycadets.com banned at Terminal 5, Heathrow 2008-04-15 16:47:51 This is the sole reason Terminal 5 sucks! Courtesy of PaperGhost:
It’s weird that such a costly terminal, run by British Airways Plc, has such poor research. Oh well…. Read more:Heathrow
FYI. Keep yourself updated with Zlob and associated malware 2008-04-24 14:14:51 FYI. If you fancy keeping yourself updated with the latest Zlob and associated
malware then bookmark this usefull blog;
Bharath’s Security Blog
We don’t tend to blog enough about all the details behind this type of malware when we blog about rogues. We like to simplify things in order to give a better understanding to those who [...]
Announcing WinPatrol 2008 With ActiveX Control 2008-04-25 16:31:04 Bill Pytlovany released a new version of WinPatrol which includes a great new security feature. On increasingly frequent occasions we hear of “zero-day” or unpatched vulnerabilities affecting programs with ActiveX components. In fact, the majority of all browser plug-in vulnerabilities can be attributed to Active X. With WinPatrol 2008, you can monitor and control Active [...] Read more:Control
Another lame rogue - IE AntiVirus 2008-04-25 08:08:13 Yet another lame attempt from the IE Defender crew. This time they’ve gone back to the old look which first kicked it all off with IE Defender.
IE AntiVirus
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These idiots, or your own choice of word, first started with IE Defender, tried their hands [...]
End of Birthday Raffles! Join In! 2008-05-03 15:11:09 It has been almost a month since we turned two years old. And during that time various games and challenges were set-up in order to celebrate and enjoy the fact we turned two. What we also added was a chance to win full licences of programs.
As it’s towards the end of the period, which has [...] Read more:Birthday
, Raffles
Service Pack 3 released for Windows XP 2008-05-08 14:29:51 A brief blog here about the release of Service
Pack 3 for Windows
XP.
You can find several articles online about this, however our resident blogger Corrine has an article crammed with info at her blog Security Garden:
Windows XP SP3 Released - article by Security Garden
You can also find several posts about this from around the [...] Read more:Service Pack
WinPatrolFlash! 2008-05-23 12:01:04 WinPatrolFlash has been released. WinPatrolFlash is a portable version of my favorite security application. For people who are frequently called upon to help family and friends, this will come in very handy.
WinPatrol Flash can run from a USB/Flash drive without having to install any WinPatrol files or settings on the system to be fixed or [...]
Comodo Disappointment 2008-05-27 18:59:27 Well known Calendar of Updates has added yet another vendor to the list of discontinued updates. Comodo
has joined the company of Zone Labs and Webroot of including the Ask Toolbar pre-checked for installation with Comodo Firewall 3.0.23.364. Comodo’s installation of the Ask Toolbar is under the guise of the Comodo SafeSurf toolbar.
If you are [...] Read more:Disappointment
Bad Advice from Comodo and Loss of Trust 2008-05-31 13:24:30 How does a security vendor lose trust? It likely begins when the company CEO becomes overly defensive and posts rants such the one at the end of this post:
“You know what pisses me off the most: Its ill-informing, mis-informing doing a disservice to users, because of our own agendas!!!! I have no problem with [...] Read more:Comodo
AntiSpyCheck - Giving you false checks! 2008-06-13 17:24:31 Another day and another rogue! Actually this next one has been out and about for some time now. However it’s starting to be making the rounds recently.
It’s also been a time since we have blogged and brought a rogue to the attention to the general internet community. So I thought I may as well bring [...] Read more:checks
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Mozilla Firefox 3 URI Launching and XUL Error Page Vulnerabilities 2008-07-17 13:34:17 Short post, but an important one to inform you about. For all the details about the vulnerabilities in FireFox 3 regarding URI launching and XUL, visit our forum here.
Apologies for the lack of entries on this blog. We hope to resolve this soon.
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P2P (Peer-2-Peer) policy at this forum! 2008-08-14 16:13:54 An important announcement here regarding P2P (Peer-2-Peer) use when receiving assistance at this forum. Please make good use of the new policy we have in place. Click HERE for a full run-down.
Comments and questions are welcomed.
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“Internet-Antivirus” - The latest fake security program 2008-08-12 15:28:50 Here we go again! Another fake security
product/rogue/piece of trash! This time it goes by the name of “Internet
-Antivirus“.
Internet-Antivirus
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That is what the application looks like. However, when it hijacks, your browser will automatically change to the following. Like our example below, we choose a safe site to demonstrate:
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Once you click on
Google Chrome - Your Thoughts? 2008-09-03 14:07:53 A new browser has appeared on the scene and I’ll be testing it out over the next few days and weeks. It goes by the name of GoogleChrome
.
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Hopefully, after some time testing it, I will get a better picture. I’ll also be blogging about it then. In the meantime, why not discuss [...]
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