Monthly Archives: September 2010

GFI Sunbelt Internet connectivity was lost when a fiber optic line was cut in Clearwater, Fla., near the end of the business day yesterday. Service provider Time Warner said the line was accidentally cut by a construction crew near the …

GFI Software Announces Top 10 Malware Threats for August The top 10 most prevalent malware threats for the month of August are: 1. Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT 25.11% 2. Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen 4.23% 3. Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra 3.61% 4. INF.Autorun (v) 3.27% 5. Trojan.Win32.Generic!SB.0 2.01% 6. BehavesLike.Win32.Malware …

Zombies. Whether they’re shuffling Romero types, the wisecracking “send more cops” variety or even the crumbling Fulci efforts it’s important to be prepared (no, I’m not counting the ones that run. Those are stupid). As you can see, I’m ready …

Safe Web Surfing Rule # 2: See Rule # 1 Email and social networking sites might be a global phenomena, but English remains widely used in URLs and elsewhere on the Internet. In the English verbiage in malicious email, URLs …

Holidays are times when we see a big uptick in email retail advertising. They are also a time when we should be especially aware of threats from phishing schemes in all those ads. In that surge of emails promoting holiday …

Fiverr is an excellent site that allows you to buy / sell services – all of which cost $5. There’s all sorts of crazy things on there, but does it attract rogues and individuals who generally want to mess up …

In my last post I performed some pre-checks to identify the reason for the update failure. I found out that the update fails permanently, the license key is however valid and the licensed users have not been exceeded. In the …

“Turn the Tables on the Bad Guys, Malware Unmasked” The Sunbelt Labs quarterly briefing “Turn the Tables on the Bad Guys, Malware Unmasked” is available for your viewing pleasure. Malware Unmasked 2 from OEM Sales on Vimeo. Schwartzkopf began by …

Here’s a cheeky one. On the Greasemonkey script site Userscripts(dot)org, there’s a script claiming to banish all those horrible surveys that keep “free” downloads out of your reach forever. Sounds good, right? Click to Enlarge Well, let’s fire up the …