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Showing posts with label Virus Type. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virus Type. Show all posts

Monday, November 23, 2009

Trojan Vundo - Trojan Virus

Trojan Vundo is a extremely dangerous Trojan virus and you want to make sure your pc never gets it, and if your pc is infected with Trojan Vundo, this article will help you remove it quickly & easily.

Trojan Vundo was discovered on a friend of mines desktop after running the popular Windows Defender program, a free spyware and Vundo removal tool (it detected Trojan vundo, but wouldn't remove it). How the desktop got infected with this ungly virus I'm not sure, but I spent hours researching and looking for any information I could find about Trojan Vundo and ended up with nothing. Actually, there's tons and tons of useless articles and content out there on how to fix the issue, but none one of them worked for me and your probably in the same situation as well.!

Friday, November 6, 2009

Win32/Conficker.A - Worm Conficker

Win32/Conficker.A is a worm that spreads by exploiting a vulnerability in Server Service . The file is run-time compressed using UPX .

Installation
When executed, the worm copies itself in the %system% folder using the following name:
%variable%.dll
A string with variable content is used instead of %variable% .

The library %variable%.dll is loaded and injected into the following process:
services.exe

The worm registers itself as a system service using the following filename:
netsvcs

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Virus hoaxes

A virus hoax is typically distributed by e mail to warn' recipients of a new threat to computer systems security. After detailing how this new virus is a serious threat, the email advises you to forward the message to everyone you know. This 'chain letter' effect causes one kind of real harm.

Virus hoaxes can circulate widely. Suppose a recipient distributes it to 10 people and each of those 10 people distribute it to 10 more people, and so on down the line. After only six generations, one million bogus e-mail messages will circulate throughout the Internet. By the seventh generation the number reaches 10 million, and by the eighth generation - 100 million e-mail messages that serve no purpose are clogging up networks worldwide. This effect can cause servers or routers (specialized computers that route Internet traffic) to slow down or even crash.

Monday, November 2, 2009

BDS/Glecia.D - Backdoor Server

General
Method of propagation:
• No own spreading routine
Aliases:
• Kaspersky: Packed.Win32.Krap.x
• F-Secure: Packed.Win32.Krap.x
• Eset: Win32/Kryptik.AWF
Platforms / OS:
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Windows 2003

Side effects:
• Drops malicious files
• Registry modification

Files
– %SYSDIR%\sys.dat Furthermore it gets executed after it was fully created. Further investigation pointed out that this file is malware, too. Detected as: BDS/Glecia.A