5 Most Active Virus Families

1. STUH
Trojan of Stuh family can record key strokes on a keyboard and peer the password entered by PC users. Not only that, this virus will also disable the Automatic Windows Up-date feature so that the PCs are prone to get attacked by other dangerous viruses.

2. FRAUDLOAD
This virus is one of programs which is called Rogue AntiVirus (fake antivirus). This destroyer program infects a PC through a security hole found in an application. Furthermore, the virus displays a fake virus message that hooks PC users buying "full version" fake antivirus via credit card.

Accessing Secure Links

You are clicking a wrong, suspicious link in the internet? Your PC may be intruded by hackers. To protect it, if you are a Firefox or IE user, use a plug-in from Finjan and you may download it from http://securebrowsing.finjan.com. This plug-in will analyze page search results from Google, Yahoo. MSN, and some other sites.

Tips: To check a site manually, you can visit www.finjan.com then copy the site's link and insert it in the "URL Analysis" box in the "Security Center" menu.

Dirtiest Sites According to Symantec

Below is the list of some of 100 dirtiest Web Sites according to Norton Safe Web. These sites may contain security risks such as phising sites, malicious downloads, browser exploits, and links to unsafe external sites.

17ebook.com (view report)

aladel.net (view report)

bpwhamburgorchardpark.org (view report)

clicnews.com (view report)

dfwdiesel.net (view report)

divineenterprises.net (view report)

fantasticfilms.ru (view report)

gardensrestaurantandcatering.com (view report)

ginedis.com (view report)

gncr.org (view report)

hdvideoforums.org (view report)

hihanin.com (view report)

Mac Is No Longer Secure

A trojan is now attacking Apple Mac Computers. This virus is spreading via illegal software iWorks dan becoming limelight as this is the first virus attacking OS X platform, operating system running for Mac. This far, Mac is supposed to be relatively secure from virus attack. But this is more caused by the number of its users are not as much as Windows.

This Mac virus, which has been written in RealBasic, is amateur. The comments in its code's lines explain that the aim of this virus is to create the first Mac OS botnet. This virus is also trying to steal email address, record key-typing and copy itself into onstalled hard-disk.

According to some sources, the virus, which is also called as Tored, is a worm. However some say it as a trojan. The fact is that it is a worm as well as a trojan, or at least trying to become either both. The email stealing action and replication into insatalled hard drive is are like Conficker. But SMTP server which is tried by this virus to send itself is currently not active. Thuis Tored is limited to the trojan-like-attack.

Tored virus is perhaps the first email trojan attacking Mac. Some years ago there were Apple attacking trojans, but this seemingly is the first virus acting as a worm. Eventhough it is not dangerous, its behaviours describe a kind of new attack on Mac platform.

Graham Cluley, a Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos said, many Mac users think that the worm dissemination is not involving man's interfere. That is true that there are some Windows worm like that such as Sasser and Code Red, but many of malwares in which we suppose as worm such as The Love Bug, Anna Kournikova, etc, need man's interfere and quickly spread over.

Probably the most interesting part of this newly virus is the message sending, For Mac OS X: (If you are not on Mac please transfer this email to a Mac and sorry for our fault :)".

The good news is, according to Cluley, Tored is not a serious treat, and maybe no one experiences it. The more serious attack to Mac users is a trojan which is put on websites offering interesting downloads.

On January, trojan hiding in the copy of iWork '09 and Adobe CS4 for Mac infected about 5000 computers. Although it couldn't spread independently, this trojan has been thought as the first Mac botnet

Conficker Attacks Stiil Continue On University of Utah

Conficker virus attacks have not stopped yet. Hundreds of personal computer (PC) at the University of Utah become the victims of the virus. 

Not less than 700 computers in this prestigious educational institution have been infected by conficker. Initially, this virus was detected since thursday, 9 April. However, suddenly in the next day, conficker spread very quickly, from the hospital of the campus, school of health, faculties of pharmacy and nursing and health. 

Consequently, more data have been lost because of damaged and stolen. "The virus attacks the desktop, and stole important data such as credit card numbers and other bank information," said spokesman of Utah University, Chris Nelson, as quoted Associated Press, Tuesday (14/4/2009). 

From data collected, most likely if the virus has been spreading through the digital camera and intelligent mobile devices  of employees and staffs in the environment around the campus. 

Pentagon Prepares USD 100 Millions For Anticipating Viruses

Serious cyber attacks targetting the network of US government get serious attention. 

It is true that the increase of attacks through virtual world is increasing in the US. Therefore, The US Department of Defense is ready to channel funds up to USD 100 million. 

The money will be used to strengthen the external network to prevent computer viruses. 

"A lot of news say that many viruses have been capable of crippling the computer system. In fact, even the military network," said the commander of the Pentagon Jhon Davis, as released by AFP on Wednesday (8/4/2009). 

Davis also added that the money is also used to clean the network in order to prevent any future attacks. It is far better to prevent than to repair post-attack

All in One Security Solution By Norton Is Available

Norton 360 version 3.0, an all-in-one security solution to protect your PC and your online activity, is now available. This new version includes all the performance and security improvements to Norton Internet Security 2009, such as  Norton Insight and pulse  update, as well as new full version web site rating service , Norton Safe Web. 

The facts indicate, almost 60% of sites identified unsafe by Norton Safe Web was found to contain threats that can infect PC users even though not to download nor install files. Norton Safe Web provides ratings that most recent and most accurate  using the Targeted crawling technology, a unique Aging Internet algorithms and  20 million members of Norton Community Watch. Norton Safe Web also provides a site rating information to help provide security to the user during the online shopping transaction with an online vendor. 

Meanwhile, Norton Identity Safe manages your online identity, saves your username and password for convenient shopping, banking and browsing online, and prevents programs like keyloggers to steal your personal information. Backup management is done via Windows Explorer Norton Backup Drive. While Backup Source Selection and File Type Management provide convenience in storage. You can also save files to different storage/place such as a USB flash drive, iPod, CD / DVD, Blu-ray media or online media. 

In addition there is the Diagnostic Report provides a comprehensive description of the system and also the tips so that the PC you are working with the best performance.