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“This Week’s Top 10 Spyware Threats”
The top ten most prevalent spyware and malware threats for the month of April are compiled from monthly scans performed by Sunbelt’s award-winning antispyware tool, CounterSpy(tm), and is a service of the Sunbelt Software Malware Research Labs. New threats that appear for the first time in the top ten lists include the Trojan.Vxgame and Blaire threats. Trojan.Vxgame is a severe threat — a Trojan program that silently downloads additional malware from the Internet and lowers a user’s system security settings by disabling the Windows firewall. Blaire is also a high risk threat — a worm distributed through mass emails. Once executed on a user’s computer, it functions as a backdoor, opens illicit network connections, and uses polymorphic tactics to self-mutate, disable security software, modify system files, and install additional malware. The results represent the number of times a particular spyware or malware infection was detected during CounterSpy scans that report to ThreatNet(tm), Sunbelt’s community of opt-in users of CounterSpy.
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This Week’s Top 10 Spyware Threats
In the world of malware, we can see some distinct variations. One of these is the key logger. Moving into our 3 spot this week is BehavesLikeWin32.Keylogger. I wonder if you have to take a special class to name these suckers. Anyway, BehavesLikeWin32.Keylogger is a pain in the butt and if you find it get rid of it. It is categorized as a Surveillance Tool. The name is self-explanatory, but just so you know Surveillance Tools are software applications that monitor and capture data from computers including screenshots, keystrokes, web cam and microphone data, instant messaging chat sessions, email, visited websites, programs run and files accessed and files shared on a P2P (peer to peer) network. The whole enchilada!
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Anti-spyware bill passes U.S. House
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Tuesday targeting some uses of internet spyware, yet another attempt to enact a federal law to curb scams aimed at stealing personal information from computers.
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PC Safety Secrets - Remove The Malware Pests That Slows Down Your Computer
We just launched a brand new ebook entited PC Safety Secrets, its only 24 pages, but its 24 pages of no fluf. Here are a few topics we cover.
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Supportcave Video Library
Hi, We have several video’s that will help you cleanup your computer and prevent spyware & virus pests from reinfecting your computer.
A summary of video’s
Installing & Using Kaspersky Anti Virus
Using Avg Anti Virus
Installing & Using Lavasoft Adaware
Using Spybot & Using hijackthis to clean up what was missed with the other software
Click here to watch the video’s
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Top 5 Ways to Protect your Computer from Spyware
Step 1. Stop using Internet Explorer - Download and install Mozilla Firefox
http://www.supportcave.com
Step 2. Install Anti Spyware Software. For a list of the Top Programs go here
http://www.supportcave.com
Step 3. Install Anti Virus Software. For a list of the Top Programs go here
http://www.supportcave.com
Step 4. Install a Broadband Router and get a good Software Firewall.
See a great comparison here
http://www.matousec.com/pr
Step 5. Run Weekly Virus and Spyware scans on your pc and make sure your Anti Spyware software is running 24/7. Most Free wont do this.
Spysweeper will (not free) Get the Google pack for a free copy of Spyware Doctor Starter Edition. Get it here
http://www.supportcave.com
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