Aug 22, 2016 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans, Virus & AntiVirus News
Towards the end of July 2016, Kevin Townsend brought it to my attention that Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, had announced an initiative to address the ransomware problem. No More Ransom is intended to provide information and help victims recover...
May 19, 2016 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans, Threat News
Have you been infected by one of the new variants (v3 or v4) of the notorious ransomware TeslaCrypt? If your encrypted files had the extensions .xxx, .ttt, .micro, .mp3 or were left unchanged, then ESET has good news for you: we have a decryptor for TeslaCrypt. We...
Dec 11, 2014 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans
If you are trying to download files – any files, and the Internet Explorer message pops up that your current internet settings prevent this file from downloading – try the following to reset your Internet Explorer Security Settings. Here is a step-by-step...
Dec 25, 2013 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans, General Security
7NEWS Phil Tenser DENVER – A holiday-themed email scam claims your order from Costco or Walmart was canceled because of an address error, but clicking on the link inside the email triggers a download that could infect your computer. The email seems official, but...
Jun 26, 2013 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans
In an article on InfoSecurity, it has been reported that the Caberp bootkit malware source-code has been leaked and is freely available online… this will certainly lead to many, MANY more variations of the threat. The leak followed a “fire-sale” of...
Jan 29, 2013 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans
The ‘PokerAgent’ botnet, which we have tracked in 2012, was designed to harvest Facebook log-on credentials, also collecting information on credit card details linked to the Facebook account and Zynga Poker player stats, presumably with the intention to...
