Fake Google Toolbar Installs Trojan Backdoor

May 9th, 2005 Oscarbot(aka Doyorg), an windows only Trojan, continued to spread on Monday among America Online instant messaging clients. It installs backdoor on the infected PC when users click on a link within lines like "hey check out this" or "i thought youd wanna see this" from a buddy on their AIM contact list.

June 24th, 2006 Google is massively pushing its web browser toolbar everywhere around the world. Google has agreed to pay a "significant amount" to have Google toolbar bundled with select Adobe downloads.

July 21st, 2007 Normally we need fake id's when we are developing or testing any application with user authentication & entitlement. Fake ids are required to populate the database for testing.

May 17th, 2006 Erazer-A is a trojan with a mission. It deletes illicit files from compromised Windows PCs in addition to harvesting data from infected machines.

January 20th, 2009 I am sure that you usually get at least one spam mail a day from Orkut. Even GMail which perhaps has the best filtering capability of spam mails, stands helplessly in front of such backdoor attacks.

July 11th, 2005 Assorted list of latest products from Google targeted at Firefox users.

July 20th, 2006 Millions of visitors to Myspace.com and other web sites have been infected with spyware by a banner advertisement according to iDefense, a Verisign company. iDefense, an Internet security company owned by Verisign, said the spyware infects unpatched versions of Windows using a security flaw in the way the operating system and Microsoft Internet Explorer open Windows Metafile images, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

July 30th, 2007 An Ext JS, a beautiful Javascript Library, ComboBox on a Toolbar fails to display when the browser window is resized or there is another div with 100% width. The problem is most likely related to resizing of the Toolbar which causes the ComboBox to stop displaying.

August 9th, 2006 The AdWords API Sandbox is an environment that replicates the API of the live site, for developing, testing and debugging applications that use the AdWords API. When a developer logs in, AdWords accounts are automatically created in the Sandbox, then the developer can create and run campaigns, adgroups, creatives, and other operations on those accounts without incurring any quota.

August 20th, 2005 I observed people outsourcing dubious projects on RentACoder. But this is plain outrageous.

November 11th, 2005 A class action lawsuit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment has been filed in California, and more lawsuits are expected as lawyers enter the Sony Rootkit copy protection software fiasco. Attorney Alan Himmelfarb filed a suit in Los Angeles County Court last week on behalf of Alexander Guevara.

April 22nd, 2007 Active immunization is an extremely interesting technique in fighting against internet based viruses, trojans and worms. Laurent Oudot of the Rstack team created a prototype in 2003.

November 9th, 2005 There are few reports of an attack by a new Linux worm called Lupper which exploits a well known PHP XMLRPC implementation vulnerability. PHP XMLRPC implementation is used in a large number of popular web applications such as PostNuke, Drupal, b2evolution, Xoops, PHPGroupWare, TikiWiki etc.

August 5th, 2005 I contemplated downloading Alexa Toolbar. Knowing its reputation I decided to check its privacy policy to understand what exactly I am compromising by installing this toolbar.

August 23rd, 2007 A Trojan horse, with a descriptive name Infostealer.Monstres, was used to steal more than 1.6 million records from several hundred thousand people who posted resumes on Monster.com, Symantec has reported. The personal details of hundreds of thousands of candidates, such as name, surname, email address, country, home address, work/mobile/home phone numbers and resume ID etc.