February Adware/Spyware List

One more time, this month there haven’t been significant changes in the adware/spyware list; the first five positions seem immutable.

Both Adware/ActiveSearch and Adware/BaidurBar go down two positions, placing themselves in the 8th and 9th positions respectively.

Taking advantage of these changes, the free positions have been filled with Adware/Sweetbar and Adware/Wupd (in the 6th and 7th position).

With regard to those which leave the list, Adware/NaviPromo doesn’t move away too far and goes down 3 positions, placing itself in the 12th position.

Regarding the newcomers to the top Adware/Spyware list, the only one is PurityScan, which gains 4 positions and places itself in the 10th position.

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This post was written by Ted on March 12, 2008

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Microsoft Security Advisory (945713): Vulnerability in Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) Could Allow Information Disclosure - 1/9/2008

Revision Note: Advisory Updated: The registry key for the Configure a Domain Suffix Search List workaround has been corrected to the proper key of SearchList. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in the way Windows resolves hostnames that do not include a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN). The technology that the vulnerability affects is Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD). Microsoft has not received any information to indicate that this vulnerability has been publicly used to attack customers, and Microsoft is not aware of any customer impact at this time. Microsoft is aggressively investigating the public reports. Customers whose domain name begins in a third-level or deeper domain, such as “contoso.co.us”, or for whom the following mitigating factors do not apply, are at risk from this vulnerability.

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This post was written by Ted on March 12, 2008

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