Posts Tagged ‘virus’
Filthy Penetration
Trojan directs computers to porn sites and drugs stores.
This new threat is not only pesky, but sleazy as well. It takes over your browser and redirects it to pornography and also salacious websites or drug stores. Security experts at MicroWorld Technologies caution computer users against probably infection of a Trojan named ‘Win32.StartPage.jo’ while visiting dubious websites or downloading freebies from untrustworthy sources on the net.
Win32.StartPage.jo changes Internet settings on the affected computer. The default home page in Internet Explorer changed to www.find-online.net. It also adds a range of porn sites and bogus drug sites in the Favorites folder and makes changes in the Windows registry to activate the Trojan at the system start-up. Source www.mwti.net
The Hidden Danger of iTunes
Have you installed all the Windows updates? Good, because most of the attackers invade your PC through loopholes in the operating system. But this can change soon. Due to the popularity of IPods, iTunes has been installed withwith QuickTimes on many computers. Hackers are now diverting attention towards this software as their new target. Meanwhile, there are bulk of updates published every few weeks for the QuickTimes software to repair the critcal loopholes there were six updates in November alone.
If there is a security loophole, a manipulated video file, for instance, is sufficient for hackers to gain access to the computer. If java is installed on the systems, attackers can confer more rights in combination with QuickTime applets, which aren’t exactly termed as being reliable. There are bugs even in the image processing routine of QuickTime enabling hackers to read the PC.
You must install the latest version of the iTunes software to view videos safely. The latest QuickTime version with all patches is available at their website. Source www.apple.com/itunes
