Archive for February, 2006

HpHosts - threat to everyday surfing

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

We just had "interesting" experience with the site www.hosts-file.net. They publish the hosts file with the list of more than 45k sites. This list can be merged with users hosts file to prevent them from visiting these sites.
Here are some examples of what they block:
www.adaware.com - lavasoft page which leads to one of …
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SpyFalcon

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Spyfalcon is another Corrupt antispyware program which behaves like most infamous antispyware program Spyaxe. This program is installed by a trojan and shows blinking Icon in system tray. Message looks like system message and says that you are infected with spyware. Yes you are infected - this message is the infection. Click on the message …
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Pest Trap

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

PestTrap is another clone of infamous parasite SpySheriff. This program uses ridiculous false positives to initiate the purchase. Please avoid this program. If you are infected already, please use these pesttrap removal instructions
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