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[VULNERABILITY] IE6 and IE7 0-Day Exploit Reported

Smokey wrote 1 week ago: SANS | 2009-11-22 A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which could be … more →

Tags: Advisories, Alerts, Security, 0 day vulnerability, CSS/STYLE objects, execute arbitrary code, IE6, IE7, malicious web pages

New flash attack has no real 'fix': 'everyone is vulnerable'

Smokey wrote 2 weeks ago: We all know Adobe Flash, it’s the most widely installed software product possibly in the Inter … more →

Tags: Advisories, Alerts, Anti-Spyware, Bundleware, Downloads, News, Security, vulnerabilities, Adobe Fuse and Flash

Important notification about F-Secure hotfix fsav840-02

Smokey wrote 1 month ago: Important F-Secure Announcement F-Secure released the hotfix fsav840-02 on 15th of October for F-Sec … more →

Tags: Advisories, Alerts, Security, Anti-Virus for File Servers 8.00 – 8.01, Anti-Virus for Workstations 8.00, Client Security 8.00 – 8.01, connections only to Policy Manager and update servers, f-secure hotfix fsav840-02, FIX

Sunbelt's 'Vipre Antivirus + AntiSpyware program' with 20% discount for members of Smokey's

Smokey wrote 3 months ago: Sunbelt have very generously offered all members of Smokey’s Security Forums a 20% discount on … more →

Tags: Anti-Spyware, malware, Security, 20% discount on Sunbelt Antivirus + AntiSpyware program, Anti-phishing, Anti-Rootkit, Sunbelt VIPRE, Vipre

Smokey's Security Forums now on 'Facebook' and 'Twitter'

Smokey wrote 3 months ago: To keep up with technology and as additional service to the community, from now on you can keep up w … more →

Tags: Advisories, Alerts, Anti-Spyware, Bundleware, Friends, malware, Phishing, Security, Toolbarware

Surf Smokey's with confidence: all external links in posts are checked and rated by WOT - Web of Trust3 comments

Smokey wrote 3 months ago: Being a serious security board, we take our members web safety very seriously. This is why we have i … more →

Tags: Advisories, Anti-Spyware, Bundleware, Downloads, malware, Phishing, Security, free Internet security addon, HijackThis Log Analysis

Alert: Microsoft DirectShow vulnerability used in 0-Day drive-by-download attacks

Smokey wrote 5 months ago: The Tech Herald | Jul 6 2009 CSIS Security is reporting the discovery of a new vulnerability within … more →

Tags: Advisories, Alerts, Anti-Spyware, Friends, malware, Security, vulnerabilities, 0-Day drive-by-download attacks, 8866.org

McAfee VirusScan false-positive glitch fells PCs worldwide1 comment

Smokey wrote 5 months ago: TheRegister | 3rd July 2009 “IT admins across the globe are letting out a collective groan aft … more →

Tags: Advisories, Alerts, Friends, malware, Security, BSOD, DAT 5664, Engine 5100, false positive

Profound Malwarebytes' (MBAM) Anti-Malware Scanner Review1 comment

Smokey wrote 6 months ago: Test organization: Softpedia | Ionut Ilascu, Editor, Software Reviews Date: 2nd of June 2009 Version … more →

Tags: Advisories, Anti-Spyware, Bundleware, Downloads, Friends, malware, Phishing, Security, Toolbarware

AV-Comparatives Review DefenseWall HIPS: 100% Detection Score

Smokey wrote 6 months ago: Past week the acknowledged testing organization AV-Comparatives published a comprehensive DefenseWal … more →

Tags: Advisories, Anti-Spyware, malware, News, Security, Toolbarware, Spyware, Adware, AV-Comparatives

AV-Comparatives Review IT Security Suites for Corporate Users, 2009

Smokey wrote 6 months ago: Review: IT Security Suites for Corporate Users, 2009 Test institution: AV-Comparatives Last revision … more →

Tags: malware, Security, Friends, Advisories, Anti-Spyware, Phishing, AV-Comparatives, Symantec, Review IT Security Suites for Corporate Users

ESET is Smokey’s Security Weblog 2009 Hall of Shame Awardee1 comment

Smokey wrote 6 months ago: May 28, 2009 To me it is a pleasure to annouce that ESET, a company that develop software protection … more →

Tags: Friends, News, Security, bsods, ESET Awarded, ESET NOD32 V4.x Anti-Virus system crashes, ESET NOD32 Windows Vista - Server 2008 SP2 Service Pack, Smokey’s Security Weblog 2009 Hall of Shame Awardee

Comodo Software Removed from Softpedia due to Adware/Spyware issues with CIS

Smokey wrote 7 months ago: Kudos to Softpedia! After reading their statement concerning Comodo Software, I can only tell Softpe … more →

Tags: Anti-Spyware, Bundleware, Downloads, Friends, malware, News, Security, Toolbarware, Adware/Spyware

Important Newsflash: Malware is evolving, HijackThis not - OTListIt2 Log/Report Tool as replacement

Smokey wrote 7 months ago: Malware is evolving at a very fast rate, sadly HijackThis isn’t evolving so quickly. To be fra … more →

Tags: Anti-Spyware, News, Security, Anti-Malware, fast evolving malware, HijackThis & OTListIt2 Log Analysis, HijackThis (HJT) and OTL Log Analyzing, Important Newsflash, Malware Hunting - Removal & Cleaning

Official Jetico Inc. Support Forums have new URLs

Smokey wrote 8 months ago: Like you have read here, I have migrated my board Smokey’s Security Forums to SMF – Simp … more →

Tags: Bundleware, Toolbarware, Downloads, Security, Friends, News, Advisories, vulnerabilities, Anti-Spyware

Corruption accusation: Rising AntiVirus in a bad spotlight1 comment

Smokey wrote 9 months ago: From Wired Blog: The head of the internet monitoring department of Beijing’s Municipal Public … more →

Tags: Security, Friends, News, Beijing, rising antivirus, Micropoint Technology, Yu Bing, China's Great Firewall surveillance system, Tian Yakui

OpenDNS Unveils Major Upgrades to Statistics System, Provides Botnet Protection Service and Actionable Network Insight

Smokey wrote 9 months ago: Leading DNS infrastructure and security provider OpenDNS announces new account statistics functional … more →

Tags: Downloads, Security, Friends, Advisories, vulnerabilities, Anti-Malware, Kaspersky Lab, Conficker, Downadup

Outbreak of the polymorphic worm Downadup aka Conficker aka Kido5 comments

Smokey wrote 10 months ago: Posted Jan 15, 2009 - Revision v1.00, Jan 16, 2009: The number of Downadup infections are skyrocketi … more →

Tags: malware, Security, Friends, Alerts, News, Advisories, vulnerabilities, patch, remote code execution


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