Advertisers of rogue antispyware and their cohorts strike again! This time using the typosquatting method that oh so easily dupes the unwary keyboard thumper. Miss an ‘O’ and type a ‘G’ instead and you may just get more files that what you bargained for.Note: Goggle.com is currently being leeched. Standby for updates.Update (Ivan, 16 November…

I just discovered a recent feature in the Microsoft command prompt. It can execute an exe file even if the filename has a different extension.Below are my tests.1. calc.exe2. calc.exw.asdBoth files are the same. When I ran “calc.exw.asd” through double-clicking I got thisBut when I ran the file “calc.exw.asd” through the command prompt, to my…

Apparently, several functions found in ECDPlayerControl.ocx used by Sony’s XCP DRM system are in violation of the General Public License. The guys who researched and scrutinized the F4I binaries have actually come up with the full disassembly of the code that supposedly originated from a GPL-ed file called drms.c which was written by Jon Lech…

Here is our current screenshot collection of SOBER’s spammed emails:Attachment: registration.zip===============================================Attachment: reg_text.zip===============================================Attachment: excel_table.zip===============================================Attachment: Liste.zip===============================================Attachment: Tabelle.zip===============================================We still don’t have the email with the Word-Text.zip attachment though.

After the discovery of a malware using the Sony DRM Software”s rootkit capability, Sony has now suspended the distribution of its DRM Software. But, despite of the critical issue on Sony”s software, they are not making their removal kit readily available. To get information on how to remove the rootkit component, you have togive out…