Latest News & Info From Forums - Mar 4

Latest Security & News Info

• Users falling victim to malware distributed on Digg, YouTube
• Facebook sues 'Spamford' Wallace over spam scam
• Fake UPS delivery malware rears its ugly head again
• BitDefender Lab’s Top 10 Malware [Mar 3]

RockPhish Spam Gang Using YouTube

Looks like this gang have picked YouTube for a campaign of spam. Naturally, if you open any unwanted emails, you deserve what you get, so pay attention!!
RockPhish Gang Spam Info

Storm Embedded Links In Blogs!

Sunbelt researchers find Storm related links, supposedly pointing to YouTube embedded in blogs. Read More Here

MS Updates, Julie Amero, YouTube Worm, HijackThis!

This months Windows updates are out, be sure to check them out. Four critical ones, one important and one moderate.

Malware researchers have banded together to help prevent a fiasco such as the Julie Amero case from ever happening again. It has some very prestigious malware researchers involved, its called the Julie Group

And a new worm uses a video from YouTube to infect users. While they watch the vid, malware downloads a trojan to steal your info. I'm surprised there has not been more of this, read on.

Finally I have HijackThis! analysis available and it's fast too. No days of waiting to get assistance to remove malware. So if you have any unwanted software on your machine, join the forum and drop a log into Countermeasures: Extraction Help forum.