Category: Windows
Breaking News! New Worm-rbot.cbq Brings Windows 2000 Computers Crashing to a Screeching Halt Across the U.S. (Zotob – not “Zobot” – Also Implicated)
Worm-rbot.cbq, rbot.ebq, Win.32.rbot.ebq, Zotob, Botzor.exe, or Zobot – whatever you call it, and whichever it is, it’s causing a whole lot of trouble across the United States.
Windows Worm of the Day Zotob Attacks Plug and Play (a/k/a Botzor.exe, but not “Zobot”)
[Breaking News! Tuesday, August 16th: Zotob May Be Responsible for Computer Crashes Across the U.S. Read Here] Today’s Windows worm, brought to you by the letters Plug and Play, is the worm Zotob. Zotob attacks a flaw in the Windows “Plug and Play” feature, and also is known by the…
Critical Update! Free Tool to Remove the CoolWebSearch Trojan Keylogger!
Sunbelt Software, who last weekend discovered the CoolWebSearch trojan keylogging software which is right now stealing bank account, username, and password information from thousands of Windows users, has just released a free tool to detect and remove the keylogger, it has announced. “This is a very dangerous piece of spyware…
Microsoft’s Windows Security Updates for August
Ever dutiful, Microsoft today released its monthly security updates for Windows for August. There are six of them today, ranging from “moderate” to “important” to “critical”, and affecting IE, Microsoft telephony, and RDP, among others, and allowing everything from spoofing to DOSing to the ever present RCE (remote code execution)….
Millions of Windows Users at Risk by Massive ID and Bank Account Theft Piggybacking on CoolWebSearch
The implications are staggering. Internet security software company Sunbelt Software was investigating CoolWebSearch, a spyware package, when they noticed that stowing away in the CoolWebSearch download were two trojans, a spam zombie engine, and a keystroke logging program. It was the keylogger program which took their breath away. The keystroke…
Windows Vista Virus Just a Shell Game (Danom is just a Monad Nomad)
Microsoft’s new operating system, Vista, was barely out in beta when security company F-Secure advised that an Austrian going by the nickname of “Second Part to Hell” had already written a Vista virus. F-Secure has dubbed the new virus “Danom”. The problem is that Danom is not really a Vista…
Worm Hole in Win2k, and Windows Protection as a Business Model
Both ZDNet and IIS Resources are reporting a newly discovered “worm hole” in Windows 2000, one for which they say there is no work-around. According to the reports, the Windows security company eEye discovered the flaw this week, indicating that the flaw was in a core component which was on…
Court Stops ex-Microsoft Kai-Fu Lee from Starting Job at Google
In an at least temporary victory for Redmond giant Microsoft, in a lawsuit which defending Mountain View giant Google is calling “a charade”, a Washington state trial court has ordered ex Microsoft employee Kai-Fu Lee to refrain from starting his new job at Google to the extent that it would…
Does IE7 Banish Google and Yahoo Search? Vista Testers Lose Toolbars
Along with the limited beta release of Microsoft’s new Windows Vista came a beta version of IE7 (Internet Explorer 7). Almost immediately, Vista and IE7 users began reporting that their Yahoo! and Google toolbars had..vanished, while other less, um, competitive toolbars (pop-up blockers and form-fillers, to name two) experienced no…
Microsoft Likes DR-CAFTA
Microsoft came out this week with a statement in strong support of DR-CAFTA (Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement). Here is the statement which came to Aunty’s attention: WASHINGTON, July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Today’s passage of the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) in the U.S. House of Representatives…
Microsoft Releases Update for XP x64 Audio Problem (KB901105)
If you have a High Definition audio device in your Win XP x64 or Windows 2003 computer, then you’ll want to take a look at this. Microsoft has today released an update for Windows XP x64 and Windows Server 2003 to correct a known problem with those systems which have…
Netscape Critical Flaws Fixed with This Week’s Netscape 8.0.3.1 Release
Netscape has this week released Netscape version 8.0.3.1, which fixes four security holes which Netscape calls “critical”. Two of these critical security flaws have already been documented, while two others have not, but are nonetheless addressed with 8.0.3.1. The two security flaws which have been documented are a code execution…
Proof of Windows Legitimacy Becomes Mandatory with Release of Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) 1.0
Proving that your copy of the Windows operating software is legitimate (and not pirated) in order to get updates became mandatory today with the launch of Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) 1.0. Previous to now participation in WGA had been voluntary. But from now on, all updates, other than security…
New Kirvo Trojan Worm Sidekick Targetting AOL AIM and MSN Instant Messenger
The Kirvo Trojan visits you via Instant Messenger, blazing a trail so that Spybot can then install itself on your system. And once you have a Spybot infestation, all bets are off.
Yahoo Buys Konfabulator, Lowers Price to $0
Yahoo will be announcing on Monday that it has purchased Arlo Rose’s Konfabulator for an undisclosed amount of money. Yahoo will also be announcing that it will drop the price for Konfabulator from the current $19.99 to zero. That’s right. Zippo. Nada. And that’s pretty konfabulous. Konfabulator is the original…
