Best Virus Removal

Thats what many of us were today as we tried to search around a bit. Suddenly ALL web sites found by Google were labeled harmful! Turns out that this was caused by a human error at Google, where Google explains that the URL of "/" (which expands to all sites) was added to their blacklist of sites to be stopped. 

 Good to know that not only the antivirus industry can suffer from false alarms…

Phishers always try to come up with new tricks to bypass phishing toolbars. So, it’s not really surprising that we’ve now seen several phishing websites that are using Flash-based content instead of normal HTML. The main objective for the use of Flash-based content is to avoid phishing detection by toolbars that analyze page content.

The most infected countries are:

Turkey: 4.54%

Venezuela: 3.51%

Peru: 2.71%

Poland: 2.40%

Chile: 2.29%

I keep getting asked about what malware Symantec has seen that’s been written to target social networks. While there have certainly been a few such as Koobface, people are asking the wrong question. If the social network sites are paying attention, and to their credit they usually are, these threats can be squashed pretty quickly.

Welcome back to this blog series on misleading applications. This is the concluding article, so if you need a refresher on what we’ve covered to get to this point, have a look at the first two parts (part 1 and part 2).