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Malicious software writers are searching new means to attack end user and infect end user PC / Notebook with Trojans / malware and such Malicious software. One of the common and effective way which they have adopted since early 2004 is to compromise any social networking site running phpBB / SMF or such bulletine board software and mass attack on the users.

The way is very simple, 1st infect a trusted web site, and then user it spread the Malicious code in to the end user system.

As per Security Giant Mcafee recent wave of attacks, which has started just a week ago, already have infected over 200,000 web sites which includes various social networking site running phpBB and ASP. Even this wave of attack manages to infect and compromise a leading web portal of one of the major Security firm, Trend Micro.

A Trend Micro spokesman confirmed to InfoWorld that the company’s site had been hacked Thursday, saying that the attack took place earlier in the week. “A portion of our site — some pages were attacked,” said Mike Sweeny, a Trend Micro spokesman. “We took the pages down overnight Tuesday night — and took corrective action.”

I have seen for many non tech PC users its a real headache as with ever growing PC / Windows vulnerability threats, How can one protect their windows ??

To many, it seems a really huge task with so many heavy computer terms, such as Malware / SpyWare / BOTs / Browser hijackers / Adware / Worms, Virus, and so on…

What really threatens your PC ??

To sum up the question the one word answer is Malwares and malicious softwares… Any software which is designed to harm your PC is called Malware… All this names, Virus, Worm, Spyware, Adware, BOTs, Spam, etc are all malwares…

Where as, when a software design to carry out certain tasks, which may harm your PC but is not deployed with that intention can be called a malicious software…

For example IP sniffers, or PORT scanners…

So what do these terms mean ??

Well again I come across to a threat which is detected by few AVS, this time including Kaspersky Scanner as “Trojan.Win32.Qhost.ot“, however other front line paid scanners, such as, Norton, NOD32 (ESET) and one of the trusted Free scanner Avast fails to detect the threat….

Once again I have stumbled upon a Possible threat (Trajan Downloader) which is not detected by big guns like Kaspersky / NOD32 (v2 and Beta v3) / Norton / BitDiffender.

As the title says !!! Its a trojanhorse or in simple words a spyware…

Recently I stumbled upon a file which seemed to be a malicious software where as few major AntiVirus and AntiSpyware softwares were unable to detect the threat !! Which included big names like Kaspersky, and NOD32 (ESET)…

Therefore I was quick to report the facts to the Detection center for those 2 BIG Houses !! I got in touch with Kaspersky LAB and EAST detection center to let them know about the new threat…

Those we use windows, use Anti Virusn software too… Some time we install a Anti Virus when its too late means we already have a corruption of system… Now when we run the scan its really important that we should keep the Windows System restore option turned off….

How to turn off Windows System restore of Windows XP / Service Pack 1 / 1a / Service Pack 2 ??

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