AOL 9.0 Focused on Security
A National Cyber Security Alliance study found that 80% of all computers connected to the internet suffer from some or the other form of spyware or virus. Making these computers vulnerable to privacy issues. And anti-spyware market is getting hotter day by day with Microsoft also planning to enter with new products.
AOL plans to do something on this front with their upcoming browser suite. The package would include a firewall, antivirus, and a popup blocker. These additional tools would be using McAfee technology. And the package is labeled AOL 9.0 Security Edition. AOL members would be freely able to download the package.
This new offering is to provide a secure browsing environment to the typical AOL user who is normally not advanced enough to secure his machine himself. The additional tools being shipped with the browser have an approximate market value of USD200. AOL wants to get serious in their efforts to eradicate security breaches from their network and this is just one of the few steps.
AOL is also in process of releasing updated Netscape Browser and an independent browser on Internet Explorer engine named AOL Browser.
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November 19th, 2005 at 04:24 am
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http://www.xatrix.org/article.php?s=4166
W32/Sdbot-ADD is a worm with a troubling and innovative twist â?? it installs a root-kit backdoor on any machine it manages to infect.
The attack starts with an AOL IM user being asked to open a link. Clicking on this starts the infection sequence, dropping of a number of adware files, and the rootkit software itself, lockx.exe.
Once on the PC, the malware attempts to shut down anti-virus software, install software that allows the PC to be remotely controlled by IRC, and open a backdoor for future attack. It also contains an SMTP engine with which to collect email addresses.
According to Chris Boyd of Facetime, the researcher who first discovered the malware, it has strange properties that mark it out. Several of the adware components it installs have been seen before, but what was innovative was the mixture of many different components, the installation of such a potentially dangerous executable, and the fact it attacks via the generally unprotected channel of instant messaging.
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John West Remote Support
November 19th, 2005 at 04:25 am
This new article is from:
http://www.xatrix.org/article.php?s=4166
W32/Sdbot-ADD is a worm with a troubling and innovative twist â?? it installs a root-kit backdoor on any machine it manages to infect.
The attack starts with an AOL IM user being asked to open a link. Clicking on this starts the infection sequence, dropping of a number of adware files, and the rootkit software itself, lockx.exe.
Once on the PC, the malware attempts to shut down anti-virus software, install software that allows the PC to be remotely controlled by IRC, and open a backdoor for future attack. It also contains an SMTP engine with which to collect email addresses.
According to Chris Boyd of Facetime, the researcher who first discovered the malware, it has strange properties that mark it out. Several of the adware components it installs have been seen before, but what was innovative was the mixture of many different components, the installation of such a potentially dangerous executable, and the fact it attacks via the generally unprotected channel of instant messaging.
Thank You,
John West