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Dangerous Flash Drives – part 2 (Comments: 0)

Clipboard01 The story continues. Microsoft released their Security Advisory with workarounds regarding the „ .lnk vulnerability “ described in our previous blog post. To help you protect your systems, here are the two official workarounds, or you can visit the official... read more

Posted July 21, 2010 by Hynek Blinka |

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Dangerous Flash Drives (Comments: 0)

Clipboard01 And here it comes again. You though, that turning the “auto-run” feature for removable drives off is sufficient and no “Worm/Autorun” can harm you again. And I bet you are pretty sure about it. I’m sorry, you are wrong. Few... read more

Posted July 16, 2010 by Hynek Blinka |

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Believe it or not? (Fake AV and Fake IME) (Comments: 0)

Clipboard02 It's irony when malware that drops and installs Chinese IME into victim`s system pretends to be a regular AV component. It was first discovered on common Chinese website infected by "Aurora" exploit. This exploit execution causes that malware file qi.exe... read more

Posted May 21, 2010 in Analysis by Hynek Blinka |

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Zeus 2.0 (Comments: 0)

image Flickr Credit: Sebastia Giralt The title of this post might confuse some people. The 2.0 symbol may trigger thoughts about yet another social networking story we have all read in the last three years and probably do not want to... read more

Posted April 27, 2010 by AVG Blogs |

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The Show Must Go On… (Comments: 0)

image Flickr Credit: Raqib Our security research team is constantly monitoring what is happening on the Web that we at AVG should be aware of. Looking for malicious URLs, exploits, new obfuscation techniques are just a few of the tasks we... read more

Posted April 26, 2010 by AVG Blogs |

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