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Avira Labs fail to identify malware, even when the analysis is done for them

10/03/2008 – 18:16

As a follow-up to to my blog post about g-archiver, I submitted g-archiver to Avira Labs (makers of Anti-Vir) for analysis so it can be added to their database. Their web form didn’t have anywhere to add additional information, so I submitted by email instead with a link to the dissection of the code. Despite [...]

By mojo | Also posted in idiots, privacy, software | Comments (0)

Dephormation Firefox Add-On

10/03/2008 – 18:05

A new tool to fight Phorm: http://www.dephormation.org.uk/ This Firefox plug-in cannot stop Phorm from monitoring every web site you visit, reading your web mail (unless you use gmail via secure http) etc but it can at least mess up the tracking system. It’s a start. What is really needed is a program to randomly surf [...]

By mojo | Also posted in networking, privacy | Comments (1)

UK ISPs allowing Phorm fraudsters to track everyone!

08/03/2008 – 13:53

I was horrified when I read about Phorm. Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk are teaming up with Phorm to track all web browsing on their networks. The tracking info will be used to spam subscribers with targeted ads. The privacy implications are mind bloggling… I have already written a few letters of complaint, but it [...]

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Defence against capturing passwords from memory

08/03/2008 – 00:09

I spotted this interesting bit of software on Hack a Day. The basic idea is to do a hard reset and boot a Linux environment, which can then dump the contents of the computers RAM which will still contain any encryption keys and decrypted documents the user was working on. It’s an old idea, in [...]

By mojo | Also posted in privacy | Comments (0)

Project Chanology – The War on Scientology

05/02/2008 – 13:08

Scientology is a dangerous cult, and Project Chanology is Anonymous’s attempt to destroy it. Well, it looks like maybe Tom Cruise is doing that for them, but anyway… If you are in any doubt, google “Lisa McPherson“. Scientologists believe some pretty crazy stuff (see the video below). Don’t believe it? Here is a BBC video. [...]

By mojo | Also posted in privacy | Comments (0)

On-demand only anti-virus and anti-spyware

28/01/2008 – 20:20

The problem with “malware” (viruses, trojans, spyware, adware etc) scanners is that not single program detects everything. Check my previous post about online multi-av scanners. Online scanning only works on one file at a time though, so some software to scan an entire PC is needed. What is needed are “on-demand only” AV programs. Most [...]

By mojo | Also posted in windows | Comments (0)

VirusTotal multi-online AntiVirus scanner

05/01/2008 – 23:01

It’s probably been blogged a lot by now but I just wanted to mention VirusTotal and jotti.org. They both offer online virus scanning of single files (or archives) of up to 10 megs. The difference between them and other online scans is that they run just about every virus scanner and malware scanner going on [...]

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