Monday - September 05, 2011

computer security link

I’m not certain how much I’ll be able to post over the next couple of days.  Am really loaded with some things need doing and have a time limit. So some things get done in between.

One of the things I’m trying hard to do is cull older issues of computer mags, covered in notes and page numbers of things to clean or download or both. I often wish I could simply pick up a stack and not look and just toss em all away. That’d be one job done in under 30 seconds.  But the problem is, there are things in them that I think I can use and so have to re-read and go over things.  In lots of cases I’ve simply taken out the page or pages that I think I need to study or dwnload from.  For example, something called FoxyProxy. It’s a FireFox add on for now, I’m gonna wait for the Chrome version. That’s cos I find myself from time to time not being able to get something from an American site where I’ve had an account for years, but won’t allow me to even buy some music because it isn’t available outside the USA. Hell, I’m happy to pay for it but no can do.  A way around that tho is to enter the URL into Google translate if it’s a video. That sometimes works. So that’s why I hold on to magazines for so long a time. I can go back a year later and find something I missed, or something of interest I marked and did nothing about at that time.

Well, I came across something of that deals with security, and has to do with fake sites and software etc.

I wasn’t blind or unaware of that sort of thing, and don’t download things willy nilly and always check things out where possible.  Sometime that means asking Drew or Vilmar or one of you guys, but not too often I hope.

So, with the thought in mind of sharing things I find that might be useful, even if only to one person, I offer this.
It’s an interesting bit of education even if you’re already on top of things. It comes from a magazine of 2010 but still quite useful and I’m sure can be updated easily.

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/fake-disk-cleanup-utilities-ruse

Fake Disk Cleanup Utilities: The Ruse

Hon Lau
SYMANTEC EMPLOYEE

We have observed a change of tack by the creators of fake antivirus software (like Trojan.FakeAV). Since the latter parts of October, we have seen a move into the creation of fake hard disk scanners and defragmentation tools. What started as a trickle has now become a steady outpouring, with new clones being released almost daily.

So far we have seen the following names being used by the clones (all detected by Symantec as Trojan.FakeAV, UltraDefragger, or Trojan.FakeAV!gen28):

· Ultra Defragger

· Smart Defragmenter

· HDD Defragmenter

· System Defragmenter

· Disk Defragmenter

· Quick Defragmenter

· Check Disk

· Scan Disk

All the versions behave and look the same way—as it installs, it performs a scan looking for problems.

Posted by peiper     on 09/05/2011 at 05:24 AM   
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