Zero-Day Vulnerability in IE

Internet Explorer has become a victim for another Zero day vulnerability. The zero-day vulnerability is inherently found in the IE 6,7and 8 versions.Cyber criminals have chosen reputed companies like Microsoft and Adobe by using their software for attacking the users. commonly targeted software are Internet Explorer (IE), Adobe Reader, and Adobe Acrobat. There has been a script exploit in IE that could allow a remote malicious user to...

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Most Dangerous Keywords or Search Words

One of the ways we get attacked with a virus or our computers are prone to viruses is the search engine. The possible ways could be any keylogger attached to the links that you get when you type in, any malwares attached to it, Botnets attached to the search engines in particular sites, some redirections when you type particular keywords in the space provided for search. Apart from all these they key words we type in the attract some of the Malwares,...

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How to Remove TSPY_ZBOT.XMAS Malware Manually

For removing these type of malware we need to follow certain procedure which will be common for this family of infections. First and foremost thing is to disable system restore and do a full system scan.Then we need to remove the files dropped by the virus HTML_IFRAME.SMAX. It will be in Application Data folder. When we scan using any anti-virus program it will download Identify and delete files detected as TSPY_ZBOT.XMAS using either the Recovery Console which needs to have a startup disc. Press R when it shows at the boot time. Go to the directory by using the command Cd "C:" (taken as an example. Go to the folder that has the infected files by using the same command. Delete the files using...

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TSPY_ZBOT.XMAS

This is a very dangerous spyware which lures the users perform tasks that may result in malicious routines or programs on their programs. It comes as a Christmas card and deceives the user that they are not accessing any malicious sites....

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