Asus Ships Eee PCs With Malware (Slashdot)
An anonymous reader writes “‘According to an email sent out by Asus, PC Advisor reports, the Eee Box’s 80GB hard drive has the recycled.exe virus files hidden in the drive’s D: partition. When the drive is opened, the virus activates and attempts to infect the C: drive and any removable drives connected to the system.’” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Watch out for spyware infections (Pacific Daily News)
Spyware is software that is installed on your computer without your knowledge or consent, and it monitors or controls your computer use.
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How To: Infect yourself with Malware
Last time we talked about cyber criminals using YouTube's Video Annotations feature to guide victims to Malware ridden websites. Today we'll talk about yet another method being used within YouTube and other social media websites. Malware distributors have been creating instructional "How to" videos to get victims to willingly visit malicious websites and infect their own computers. Once on the site the victim is lured to install Adware/SystemSecurity rogue software. The best way to avoid these types of scams is by researching the product prior to installing it on your computer. Sometimes a simple Google search can literally save you hundreds of dollars in repair costs.
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Test Center ThreatWatch: Oct 10 (ChannelWeb)
The Test Center analyzes the toxic soup of malware and intrusion attempts in its security test bed.
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The day Google banned the Web (Pandia)
On Saturday Google listed all sites in its database as potential distributors of malware and spyware. For 40 minutes every listing brought up a warning and a click on the search result brought you to yet another warning page. The message was that “This site may harm your computer”.
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