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WEBROOT IDENTIFIES THE TEN MOST SIGNIFICANT EMERGING SPYWARE AND ADWARE THREATS War of the worms: Netsky-P tops list of year's worst virus outbreaks (sophos.com) MessageLabs Publishes 2004 Email Security Trends and 2005 Predictions Report December 06, 2004 Spyware Information Center DigitalPhishnet CyberForensics Phishing Activity Trends Report - October 2004 NIST Computer Security Resource Center (csrc.nist.gov) Computer Security Information Directory (alw.nih.gov) CERT.org home page CERT/CC Computer Virus Resources Computer Security Instititute links |
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New type of spam, what to do about it:
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/friendgr.shtml There is a new type of spam out there; it comes in what looks like a greeting card. When you open the card, it sets an application on your system and is nice enough to tell you that it will email everyone in your address book if you click yes (which is the default). The Friend Greetings software is NOT a virus or a worm. It is a new form of SPAM (unsolicited e-mail advertisments). PC security issue: Browser privacy issue identified Read About Spider Security Bulletin Search at Microsoft by Product Name
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM VIRUSES IF YOU USE THE INTERNET, FTP, TELNET, "THE WEB". How to prevent Outlook Express from passing viruses to others? Good question. The software has been easily used by hackers for spreading viruses on the Internet. Be responsible by not keeping an address book inside Outlook Express. If you keep a list of personal email addresses in a private file elsewhere, perhaps an address file made with Excel or Word, then it would be easy to alphabetize, and easy to cut and paste email addresses as you needed them and since Outlook Express was no longer handling addresses, no viruses would get passed forward by that software program. You can also look for patches which for "fix" the problem and such "patches" are available for download from the Microsoft.com web site. Use their search facily to search for "Outlook *" or "Outlook Express patch". Students: Update your antivirus files each week to 2 weeks online at the antivirus Web sites. Look for something called DAT updates or antivirus updates. BEFORE downloading the new antivirus files be sure to delete the previous set of the antivirus file updates from the folder where you keep them. (Consult the information that came with your antivirus software, for how to update the files. Never get the antivirus software "from a friend" because then you will not be licensed to download the updates. Buy your own!!) I make a folder on the C drive and name it something that I can remember. My downloads go into this folder. When the download is completed I double click on the icon in that folder and the files extract themselves and go where they need to go, automatically. Next week, I delete this icon in the folder and download the new one, double click its icon and install all over again. Each week the process is repeated. Never keep the old ones and download a new set because there is a virus that will delete the new set and only keep old sets of files hanging around. Delete all your old antivirus downloads first, and the culprit cannot delete the new download files. Security Software: |