Fake McAfee DAT 5959: malware spread with Google SEO hijacking

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Par Philippe V.

I'm not gonna deal here with the real McAfee DAT 5958 issue by itself. What I find interesting is what's coming around this incident . Some other AV vendors warned that users attempts t download the DAT that fixes the 5958 failure may be used to infect...

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Nouvelle propagation de code viral via MSN

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Par Philippe V.

Une fois n'est pas coutume, je n'étais même pas en train de faire de la veille, que l'un de mes comptes MSN a reçu en rafale deux messages, de deux contacts différents. Evidemment, les contacts en question étaient censés être "hors ligne" au moment de...

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new tinyURL spam over MSN

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Par Philippe V.

As you probably read on te web, at the same time people welcome new URL services such as goo.gl, others warn about new threats that come with them: bypassing URL filters using URL shorteners... Here is a kindda new sample. Once again, over the MSN Network....

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When IBM/Lenovo does not know what a strong password is

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Par Philippe V.

It's been a quite long time since I wanted to write this article. But taking into account the fact that I spent 3 hours at night to understand what was happening to my BIOS, I could not forget it, I guess... How did all of that started? very simple. I...

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