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clicking search page links,results in randomly redirected URL pagessvchost.exe and rundll32.exe used to load malware/spyware DLL
Today, for the second time in a month, I was asked to help remove a spyware/malware from a computer running Windows XP SP3. In both cases, the symptoms were identical. The user immediately noticed something was wrong because their [...]

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Avast tonight released their updated VPS 091203-0 signature file which has been causing a lot of grief to everyone around the world with false-positives for the trojan/worm Win32:Delf-MZG[Trj].
The only fix for now is to disable updates and go back to a previous signature file that is not “bad”.
Luckily I have another machine which has not [...]

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A very odd thing just happened to me this morning. While browsing on NewEgg in Firefox 3.5.2, I noticed that my browser slowed down. Using TCPview, I noticed that I had a lot of TCP connections opened to cpe-24-29-138-176.nyc.res.rr.com. That struck me as very odd. I thought I had spyware loaded [...]

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