http://www.freefixer.com/blog/ Blog posts about spyware. en-us Roger Karlsson http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://freefixer.com/blog/a-new-year-same-old-spyware/ The last two months have been rather hectic. In the end of November I started to work for a game developer. So far it has been a great experience, but unfortunately I've had to set the goals for FreeFixer a bit lower than before. Anyway, it's a new year, FreeFixer 0.26 has been released, and the same old spyware is installing through security holes. The infections listed below was extremely nasty since it made the computer crash with a blue screen around 60 seconds after every reboot. Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:01 GMT http://freefixer.com/blog/a-new-year-same-old-spyware/ http://freefixer.com/blog/myspace-exploit/ Recently the problems over at Myspace has got plenty of media attention. In short, some hacker has been able to add a background image covering the majority of many Myspace profile pages. If you click any of the links displayed on profile page, you will be taken to the hacker's web site, instead of the place where you intended to go. The hacker's web site will ask you to install some face codes, but more interestingly it also exploit a security hole in unpatched systems to automatically install software. Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:01 GMT http://freefixer.com/blog/myspace-exploit/ http://freefixer.com/blog/vxgame-revisited/ A few days ago, while on the lookout for some random spyware, I ran into another variant of VXGame. The number of modifications this spyware does to a computer is astonishing Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:00:01 GMT http://freefixer.com/blog/vxgame-revisited/ http://freefixer.com/blog/pesttrap/ How to remove PestTrap. Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:00:01 GMT http://freefixer.com/blog/pesttrap/ http://freefixer.com/blog/spyware-installing-drivers/ Recently I ran into another spyware infection that was install through a security hole. It seems to be a variant of an infection that I documented about a month ago. What's new about this one is that it installs a device driver on the system, as you can see at the bottom of the FreeFixer log. Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:01 GMT http://freefixer.com/blog/spyware-installing-drivers/ http://freefixer.com/blog/vxgame-spyware-removal/ How to remove the VxGame spyware. Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:01 GMT http://freefixer.com/blog/vxgame-spyware-removal/ http://freefixer.com/blog/typical-case-of-spyware-removal/ In this document I'll show how to clean a typical spyware infection with the help of FreeFixer. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:01 GMT http://freefixer.com/blog/typical-case-of-spyware-removal/