Pinch Trojan

Welcome, on best antivirus blog. According to pcworld.com, more than 4,000 web every day are being infected by the Pinch Trojan. This very dangerous malware is threat even when its creators are now behind bars. Well, Pinch Trojan is penetrating existing antivirus software and then hides on a PC. After that Trojan is stealing all kind of sensitive personal data (passwords, logins and everything which can be used against you).

Mr. Jacques Erasmus, director of malware research at Prevx, said: “This is an interesting insight into the modern world of the malware developer. By simply buying the software kit off the internet and adding a few custom tweaks the owner of this particular variation is managing to get round major antivirus software and stealing people’s credit card details, passwords and other personal information.”

Like I wrote before, you must remember, that you should be responsible for any important data stored on your computer. Even if you’ve got expensive antivirus software, firewall etc, you aren’t protected in 100%.

“The signature-based approach is not enough - what is needed is a complementary antivirus approach which can detect malware using a different technique. Only by taking this approach can people catch these latest types of malware.”

Prevx has reported the location distributing the malware to the relevant ISP, which has subsequently been shut down.

All kind of protective systems must be increasingly sophisticated, and still use the new solutions to improve level of our security. Constant race between antivirus software producers and viruses and Trojans is ongoing and will continue, but we must still be aware and keep our most important financial/personal data outside computer, if it’s possible.

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Free Computer protection - part 2

Hello, welcome on part 2. I was very busy last few weeks but I’m back after few days off.
Anyway lets get back to free antispyware tools. You can try Spyware Terminator, SuperAntiSpyware, SUPERAntiSpyware or Spybot-Search & Destroy. These freewares are really reasonable against spywares. But there is also other kind of spywares, very dangerous these days. They aren’t so easy to detect or evade like spyware or viruses. I’m talking about rootkits (check out my previous posts). As i said, their purpose is to take fundamental control of a computer. I don’t want to talk about basics and how these dangerous programs are working (it’s more complicated) but best way to protect yourself against them is to pick one of these free antirootkit software:
Panda Anti-Rootkit,
BitDefender RootkitUncover,
Trend Micro RootkitBuster,
McAfee Rootkit Detective,
DarkSpy Anti-Rootkit,
F-Secure BlackLight Rootkit Detection
Sophos Anti-Rootkit,
These freeware should help you to protect your computer and give you some level of your security. I hope you find all my advices helpful.

Thanks and see you next time!

PS. One more thing. Please update all your antivirus, antispyware or other security programs as often as you can. And don’t keep any logins or passwords on your computer.
Bye Bye

Free Computer protection - part 1

You probably are aware how it’s hard to keep computer secure and clean from all kind of worms, spyware, malvare, viruses, rootkits or small evil trojans. My post will focused about basic free antivirus software which can be really valuable for you during your online adventures or work.
I know very well sever, few months ago i used Avast! Home Edition, but also you i can recommend: BitDefender Free Edition, or Gucup Antivirus.
For small cleaning you can use such software like Kaspersky Free Cleaner, Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool, McAfee AVERT Stinger.
These softwares are really high quality and popular software for your protection but you should keep in mind that his free antivirus and virus cleaners, compared with more advanced antivirus software are not-so-good and they can remove only a small part of viruses. They can only remove viruses but they can’t help you much with rootkits or other spyware and malicious software.

That’s why i want to focus now on useful free antispyware software. I already wrote something about spyware and such threats so just find post about them.
For now that’s it but stay focused on part 2 of my, small and free security guide.

Viruses, spyware and malware - real threat

Statistically almost 80% of home computers have spyware installed on them and the users don’t even know about it. This software can be very dangerous, because they are reporting all your personal information to home base (other computer). Everything what you are during your internet surfing is registered, your data files can be stolen etc. If you are noticing that your computer slows down in very weird way, you should take care about your PC.

Other dangerous softwares are called Rootkits, very unpleasant, spyware. Rootkits are created only for one purpouse to, infect and take all control under your computer. Hacker can take control on your PC and you don’t even know about that. Then rootkit is using your hard drive and your own IP address to infect other computers. Hacker can also stole all kind of your private data, without any problems. This kind of software is difficult to detect, but if you’ve got best antivirus software??… Who knows.
Worst are viruses, they are destroying everything, deleting system data and ruining your sometimes very expensive computer.

Why security of your PC is important?

Why people are talking about internet security? Well some guys are talking about security because they have really lots of money from security business, but some are talking because they had really bad experience with viruses, malvare, hackers or any other very unpleasant software. I’m second kind of guy. Well i can say one thing, keeping logins and passwords on your computer is very bad idea. If you don’t have any important files or data on your computer, you shouldn’t worry so much, even if you are out of antivirus software.

If you have such data, try to keep it on DVD or pendrive (like i do). If you don’t have money for antivirus i can help you in that matter because there is lot of free internet antivirus which can be good for you. I would like to talk about that, later because I’m little bit busy, anyway i would gladly help with small list of free tools.

You must also remember one thing. Even best antivirus software can’t grant you 100% protection, so you need to be careful even you’ve got your own antivirus on your computer. Keeping bank logins, passwords, your projects if you are architect, etc. it’s really not good idea.

Welcome on best antiviruses blog

Welcome on my blog. You are looking for best antiviruses? i will gladly help you with that matter. My blog is created to help everyone with basic and more advanced knowledge about antivirus software. I will be writing about protection of your computer against viruses, malvare (malicious software) and spyware threat. Living without antivirus is almost impossible, every day someone can broke into your PC and take all your data using spyware, can infect your computer with not-so-dangerous-but-very-naughty malware or take all your precious files! Well i have some important data on my PC and i really don’t want to lost anything. I don’t know about you, but probably you think the same ;-).

On my weblog i will gladly help you to pick best antiviruses. On market we can find few very good antiviurses and about them i will be writing here. If you are interested in this topic my blog will about basics, interesting antiviruses and news related to best antivirus software.

I hope we will meet again. See you in the future!