malware

Getting screwed again by Real Networks!

Reluctantly, I downloaded Real Player so I could view video encoded using their codec (MIT Physics lectures). Unfortunately, rather than just give me a basic player, they felt that had to give me a (rather annoying) Add-on for Firefox called the "RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin".

This plugin gives you a little pop-up menu above online video frames and offers to let you take them offline. Annoying, but fine.

Well, after several HOURS of debugging, I found that in some cases, this Add-on is making JPG images on web pages disappear!

An example is at http://startpad.org - load the page once - looks fine, hit refresh, and the image at the top of the page displays as the Alt Text instead of as an image!

I found this error report from September - and STILL - the RealPlayer has this fatal flaw. If you do load the RealPlayer - be sure to REMOVE THIS ADD-ON.

Determine if a rootkit is installed on your system

Malicious security software virusray comes thru trojan named zlob and displays fake security alerts in the taskbar. Remove it as soon as it has been noticed!

Quoted: Spyware Alert: VirusRay. How to remove it?

This would be a great list to add to our blacklist of web sites. But I don't see how to download the whole (213,000) thing at once.

Kaspersky gets the nod...

Quoted: Antivirus applications from Symantec, McAfee or Trend Micro -- the three leading AV vendors in 2005 according to Gartner -- are far less likely to detect new viruses and Trojans than the least popular brands.

I'm confused about what protection Windows Defender gives you vs. Live Care. Looks like "virus" are only detected by OneCare - but "Spyware" is detected by Defender.

The OneCare team, though, states they have moved to "one engine" on their blog - so I'm not sure why they detect a different set of malware.

Quoted: Windows Defender compared with other spyware and virus removers such as Windows Live OneCare, Windows Live OneCare safety scanner, and Microsoft Client Protection.

Quoted: The free Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool scans your hard disk for and tries to remove certain variants of known worms and viruses.

Microsoftによると、この方法を使えば海賊版対策ツールのアップデート版のアンインストールも可能/しかし、そのような利用方法を認めておらず、最新バージョンを削除しようとして問題