Security software developer McAfee is investigating the recent cyber attack it calls “Aurora” that has hit Google Services and other companies. “Aurora” will took advantage of the vulnerability in several versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows.

Virus Protector (alias VirusProtector) is another future rogue security program that was created in the tradition of LinkSafeness. It was actually on the same website that both fake antivirus was hosted. Virus Protector Trojan will soon be spreading a copy of this unwanted program on the same purpose of misleading computer users and get them attracted [...]

A website that review domains both new and old found this W-Optimizer websites that is aiming to launch and spread a copy of the said rogue program. It was also learned that this is a successor to the previously infamous Wind Optimizer. W-Optimizer will be promoted as a legit Windows utility program to accellerate the [...]

Smooth Defender 2009 promises to be a “New Generation of Anti-Spyware Software” and will stop spyware from invading privacy and reducing PC performance. Before it lunches and spread the programs, security experts already detected the malicious websites from where the Smooth Defender 2009 virus will be originated.

ClearWay Shield will be another harmful rogue security program to invade computer users in the coming days. ClearWay Shield presence on computer has not been observed at the time of this writing. It was only its website clearwayshield.com that was seen and categorized as another one to spread this rogue program.

Top anti-malware program developer MalwareBytes’ reported that a company called IOBit based in China is using their database and intellectual property on their programs. MalwareBytes’ caught the said operation when they added a fake definition on their database and few weeks later IOBit programs also detecting the same.

Fortinet, a trusted network security provider reported that the month of August 2009 displays an increase in malware activity.

This is an unexpected discovery about a malware that targets AutoCAD users. This malware called ACM_UNEXPLODE.C propagates by infecting AutoCAD files that were opened on infected computer. In addition, this malware will also modify and add various entries to the Windows registry. These add a user named SERVICER to the system with administrative rights. All drives with [...]