<![CDATA[How To Remove Spyware / Virus]]> http://www.freewebs.com/spywared/index.html Freewebs <![CDATA[Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going]]> http://www.freewebs.com/spywared/index.html?blogentryid=867581 Worms - trendsetting in 2003
The trends in virusology that we observe today have their primary roots in the second half of 2003. Internet worms Lovesan, Sobig, Swen and Sober all not only caused global epidemics, but alos profoundly changed the malware landscape. Each of these malicious programs set new standards for virus writers.

Once a piece of malware which uses fundamentally new techniques to propagate or infect victim machines appears, virus writers are quick to adopt the new approach. Today’s new threats all incorporate characteristics of Lovesan, Sobig, Swen and Sober. Therefore, in order to understand what virus writers are doing currently, and to predict what the future may bring, we need to examine this quartet of worms carefully.

Lovesan
Lovesan appeared in August 2003 and infected millions of computers worldwide in just a few days. This Internet worm propagated by exploiting a critical vulnerability in MS Windows. Lovesan spread directly via the Internet, moving from computer to computer, ignoring methods such as IRC, P2P and email, which were popular at the time. The Morris worm first used this propagation method in 1988, but it took 15 years for another virus writer to take advantage of this particular technique. Read the rest of this entry »

]]> http://www.freewebs.com/spywared/index.html?blogentryid=867581#topBox http://www.freewebs.com/spywared/index.html?blogentryid=867581 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:09:00 -0100 <![CDATA[Removing Computer Virus]]> http://www.freewebs.com/spywared/index.html?blogentryid=850093 Help! I was sitting in front my computer and it started acting strange! Pop-ups were on my screen and I was not even surfing the web. My homepage was changed somehow and so did other web settings. My programs are at a crawl and overall my computer is just not working the way it should be.

Several types of software can infect your computer; some of these are spyware, a virus, a Trojan, and a worm. That is why you need security software. If this sounds like your computer, chances are you have been infected with some type of malicious software. Read more >>>

]]> http://www.freewebs.com/spywared/index.html?blogentryid=850093#topBox http://www.freewebs.com/spywared/index.html?blogentryid=850093 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:49:00 -0100 <![CDATA[Who Writes Malicious Programs and Why?]]> http://www.freewebs.com/spywared/index.html?blogentryid=850048 Virus writers: four general types
Virus writers belong to one of 4 broad groups: cyber-vandals, who can be divided into 2 categories, and more serious programmers, who can again be split into 2 groups.

Cyber vandalism - stage 1
In the past, most malware was written by young programmers: kids who just had learned to program who wanted to test their skills. Fortunately most of these programs did not spread widely - the majority of such malware died when disks were reformatted or upgraded. Viruses like these were not written with a concrete aim or a definite target, but simply for the writers to assert themselves.

Cyber vandalism - stage 2
The second largest group of contributors to malware coding were young people, usually students. They were still learning programming, but had already made a conscious decision to devote their skills to virus writing. These were people who had chosen to disrupt the computing community by committing acts of cyber hooliganism and cyber vandalism. Viruses authored by members of this group were usually extremely primitive and the code contained a large number of errors. Read more >>>

]]> http://www.freewebs.com/spywared/index.html?blogentryid=850048#topBox http://www.freewebs.com/spywared/index.html?blogentryid=850048 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:44:00 -0100