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PWS-Gamania Trojan. Please tell me what you think about it. You can contact me anytime!
PWS-Gamania or PWS-Gamania.gen.a is a computer trojan discovered July 22, 2008. PWS-Gamania is a password stealing trojan which attempts to steal user information for certain online games.
The characteristics of this password stealer with regards to passwords stolen, sites accessed, files downloaded etc will differ, depending on the way in which the attacker had configured it. Hence, this is a general description.
PWS-Gamania is also knows as
- Trj/Lineage.BZE [Panda]
- Trojan.Win32.Vaklik.bkh [Kaspersky]
- Trojan:Win32/Meredrop [Microsoft]
- W32.Gammima.AG [Symantec]
- W32/Autorun-CL [Sophos]
My Dell D630 laptop is probably infected by this one. Good thing I am no gamer nor is there any important password this trojan can steal.
More information about PWS-Gamania can be found here: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_147533.htm
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wpv991242765100 – viruses, spyware, adware, trojans, rootkits, worms?. Please tell me what you think about it. You can contact me anytime!
wpv991242765100.exe – What is it? You may be wondering what this filename or process is when you try and searching for any malicious application running in you Windows XP/VIsta machine.. (via Task manager).
wpv991242765100.exe’s could be viruses, spyware, adware, trojans, rootkits, worms, information stealers, keyloggers, bots… I for one is not sure, but I also have this process running in my windows machine and I just discovered that this is the culprit on some of my computer problems.
Problems Caused by wpv991242765100.exe
To list a few of the nuances that this process is doing on my Viao laptop *grin*:
- Prevented me from connecting to company’s VPN
- Prevents firefox to launch (and IE for that matter)
- No internet on firefox, but fine with IE
- and probably others.
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The Mikkey Worm – This worm is getting out of hand Twitter. Please tell me what you think about it. You can contact me anytime!
“This worm is getting out of hand Twitter” – Mikkey. There was a swarm of messages flooding the twittersphere in the past couple of days. This twitter worm apparently hasn’t been controlled yet by twitter as the flood of messages that apparently coming from Mikkey, continues.
I, myself, lucky for me haven’t been pested by this Mikkey work as it only affects those who uses the web application of twitter (apparently). I use a third party web apps for firefox (twitterfox).
Here’s another way of protecting your self from this Mikkey worm from startupmeme.com:
Other steps that you can take to ensure safety is to reset your password, disable Javascript and clear cache. You can also keep a check via Twitter Status Blog or follow @spam for further updates. This is very bad for Twitter’s reputation especially when FriendFeed is getting better by the day. I would simply hate unwanted messages in bulk bothering me or my followers.
Steps to fix it:
1. Change your hex color/reset it
2. Change your bio and change the URL
3. DONT click on any profile that is suspicious and use another twitter client like TweetDeck instead of the Twitter website
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Remove Kido / Conficker / Downadup / Downup Worm. Please tell me what you think about it. You can contact me anytime!
Kido, also known as Downup, Downadup and Conficker, is a computer worm targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system that was first detected in October 2008 but, after a couple of months later, it is still being discussed in antivirus forums and message boards.
Topics usually discussed is how to detect and remove if you’re computer is infected by this Kido (aka Conficker/Downup/Downadup) worm.
It was reported by Panda Security, also a well known antivirus company, that more than 9 million PC’s have been infected. Special mention at the report was China (the probable country of origin). It is said that China is the country most infected by Kido.
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