Trojan on mobile

If you are a game enthusiast please be careful in downloading action games. There is a game where you end up downloading a trojan horse called Trojan.Terred. The threat is bundled within a .cab installation file that contains a legitimate game called “3D Anti-terrorist action” and a malicious dialer that we call Trojan.Terred on your Windows Mobile phone...

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Virus Terms

There are some general terms that relates to a virus or whenever you look for virus help. There will be postings and information when you read online help. They will have some terms associated with them. They come in handy if you know some terms when you visit anti-virus websites that give information...

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Botnet named Chuck Norris

There is another botnet that has attacked the web with the name of Chuck Norris-famous karate fighter. WORM_IRCBOT.ABJ may be downloaded from remote site(s) by other malware or by an unknowing user when visiting a malicious Web site. It takes advantage of the MS03-039 Buffer Overrun vulnerability. In RPC(Remote Procedure Call)SS Service vulnerability to propagate copies of itself across networks. This vulnerability systems users running Microsoft...

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Commwarrior Virus

Follow these steps to remove Commwarrior manually.      1.A file manager program must be installed on your phone (usally you will find it at your menu under the         Tools > Filemanager). 2. You have to enable the option that alows you to view the files in the system directory. 3. Use your file manager to delete files described here. Go to the directory c:system\apps\commwarrior ...

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Anti-Virus Scanning Engine Methods

An anti-virus works with an engine that scans all the files on the computer. They are Definition Based and Heuristic Based. Anti-viruses are chosen on four main aspects out of which Scanning Engine is one of them. The Scanning Engine works in following ways: 1) Definition Based Scanning:                                   ...

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