Sex, Now the Main Cause of Chinese HIV Infections
	HIV entered China in the 1990s mainly through the non checked blood plasma-buying network and infected transfusions in hospitals. But now, sex has bypassed drug syringes as the main factor of HIV transmission in China, and this could lead to a booming of the infection spread from high-risk categories to the overall population, as signaled by a new report made by UNAIDS and a committee of the State Council, China's Cabinet, ... [read more >>]
	03 December 2007, 06:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Man, This Is Smart! A Windows Infection That Gives Remote Control to The Hacker!
	We've seen similar infections in the past, but since this is pretty new, it might manage to bypass the antivirus protection and install on your computer. Security company Trend Micro discovered BKDR_DARKMOON.AH, a new backdoor affecting the Windows operating systems which attempts to open a port in order to allow the hacker to connect to your computer. Basically, it can open any port it wants and, since there are so many rem ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 09:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How About A Virus That Restarts Your Computer?
	WORM_BRONTOK.CE is a new worm discovered by security company Trend Micro which confirmed that the infection affects most Windows versions including 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003. Although the worm has a medium damage potential and a medium distribution potential, there are no reported infections yet. In case you're wondering how you can get infected, you should know that WORM_BRONTOK.CE can be deployed by other infections or strai ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 03:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

One More Windows Infection, Damage Potential – High!
	It seems like this is the Windows infections day as a new threat was discovered by security vendor Trend Micro, the infection targeting most versions of Microsoft's operating system. Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003, they're all affected by WORM_AGENT.AFBF, the new worm which seems to be distributed through popular instant messaging applications. The security company reported that WORM_AGENT.AFBF comes with a medium dist ... [read more >>]
	23 November 2007, 08:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Reminder: Don't Forget to Enable Your Antivirus While Browsing Popular Websites!
	A few weeks ago it was reported that multiple popular websites were infected with some sort of malware that attempted to get visitors on other dangerous pages and infect their computers. Today, security vendor Sophos reminds us that it's pretty important to keep our antivirus up-to-date with the last virus definitions and patches as a new popular website was infected with a dangerous malware. Lao Airlines, the company that o ... [read more >>]
	23 November 2007, 06:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Extremely Dangerous Virus Infecting Vital Windows Files!
	There are a lot of infections available out there in the wild waiting for a vulnerable computer but today's threat is somehow special because it attempts to harm your system by itself. How does it manage to do that? It's simple: it aims to infect absolutely necessary Windows files that are vital for the Microsoft operating system. According to security vendor Trend Micro, PE_TUFIK.H-O affects most Windows versions including Windo ... [read more >>]
	23 November 2007, 01:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Every New Burned CD Infected
	We've heard about dangerous viruses which attempt to copy malicious files on removable drives and infect other computers once they are connected to them. But today's report might be something new able to cause serious headaches. According to security company Trend Micro, PE_MABEZAT.A-O is a new virus which attempts to copy itself on every new burned CD and obviously infect clean computers once inserted into the CD-Roms. [ADMARK=1 ... [read more >>]
	22 November 2007, 04:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Infected Emails Knowing Your Name Send You to Judge
	Several security vendors on the web identified a brand new dangerous email scam which attempts to lure recipients to click on infected attachments which could harm their computers. The messages claim to be sent by the US Department of Justice and inform the reader that somebody filed a complaint against the company; but what's more impressive is that the emails include most users' details such as name and company info. ... [read more >>]
	21 November 2007, 05:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BitDefender Scanner: Removing Viruses, Enhancing Web Attacks
	Since it's accessible via a web-browser, BitDefender Online Scanner is pretty useful when an infection managed to reach your computer and affect the data stored on your drives. But this doesn't necessarily mean the service is also 100 percent safe as a new vulnerability was reported today by Security Focus. Under the "BitDefender Online Scanner OScan. OCX ActiveX Control Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability" tit ... [read more >>]
	21 November 2007, 03:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Meet Dede, The Tree Man
	He may have inspired the Treebeard from "Lord of the Rings". But how did he get in this situation? First, it's about the human papillomavirus (HPV), a common human virus, is known especially as a leading cause of warts and cancer. It is also the main cause of cervical cancer (in uterus) (95 % of the cases). Due to oral sex, HPV can cause larynx, esophagus and oropharyngeal cancer (affecting the throat, tonsils and back of ... [read more >>]
	19 November 2007, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Silly Worm Aiming to Infect USB Devices
	Security vendor Sophos today released an advisory concerning W32/SillyFDC-BK, a new Worm which aims to infect the USB devices connected to the computer and spread every time the infected device is connected to a clean system. Sophos wrote the Worm attempts to install itself in the registry as it only affects the Windows operating systems. There’s no other information about which versions of Microsoft’s operating systems are targe ... [read more >>]
	19 November 2007, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 10 Security Threats for 2008
	As the computer infections and threats evolve day by day, the security companies struggle to design new technologies able to block them all... although we have to admit it’s pretty difficult to do that. Security vendor McAfee today released the top 10 predictions for computer infections in the next year, expecting an impressive increase in the web 2.0 attacks. "Threats are increasingly moving to the Web and migrating to newer techn ... [read more >>]
	19 November 2007, 05:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dangerous Virus Delivered Through Box Office Movie Downloads
	It happens again and this is a pretty obvious sign that the virus creators are evolving as they attempt to adapt their infections to every new event happening all over the world. Today, Li Ting of Rising International Software Co. Ltd., told Reuters that a new virus is currently targeting the fans of "Lust, Caution" a Chinese Box Office hit which attracted lots of fans in the country. According to the same source, the m ... [read more >>]
	19 November 2007, 05:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Norton, McAfee and Kaspersky Fighting for Seagate’s HDD Security
	The short story so far: Seagate delivered approximately 1,800 Maxtor Basics 3200 hard-drives which were apparently infected with a dangerous Trojan attempting to steal users’ credentials. The interesting fact is that nobody said a thing until the Taiwan government accused the Chinese authorities of trying to access their private information as the devices were supposed to be used by their officials. Seagate confirmed that some of the hard ... [read more >>]
	19 November 2007, 03:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dangerous DLL Aiming to Infect the Computer
	TROJ_AGENT.ACTH is the latest threat discovered by security company Trend Micro which might come as a DLL file aiming to infect your computer. In a security advisory published today, the vendor reported that the Trojan horse affects Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003, having an overall risk rating set too low. Sophos, another important name in the security industry, discovered the threat as Mal/Behav-119, the company saying that ... [read more >>]
	16 November 2007, 04:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Infected Antivirus! What Can I Do?
	The antivirus technologies installed on our computers are supposed to protect the data from viruses, spyware, malware and any other type of infection. Supposing you have your computer infected with a virus, all you need to do is start your antivirus and perform a full system scan to clean all your files. But what if your antivirus is also infected and it cannot be started to remove the viruses? Well, that's a pretty serious ... [read more >>]
	14 November 2007, 08:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 10 Infectious Diseases That Have Killed Millions of People
	The discovery of the antibiotics by the middle of the 20th century seemed to have doomed the human pathogens. They proved effective against many bacteria and fungi causing hospital infections, like meningitis, pneumonia and scarlet fever, which before were deadly. But antibiotics cannot attack viruses, like HIV or flue virus; many cause allergies and kill many beneficial microorganisms. The under use of antibiotics (when a patient does ... [read more >>]
	13 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Virus Targeting Windows Live Messenger
	Although it happened in the past, I decided to write this article because this type of threats tends to become too dangerous affecting more and more users. Back in October, The Hindu reported that some sort of virus aims to steal the usernames and the passwords of MSN/Windows Live Messenger users by sending them to a malicious page. In fact, the entire exploit was started by a message sent through this popular instant messagi ... [read more >>]
	13 November 2007, 06:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Trojan in the Wild! Damage Potential: High!
	Security vendor Tend Micro today released an advisory concerning TROJ_DLOADER.SHB, a new threat which is able to harm your computer and bring more infected files on your system. According to the report, the distribution potential is "low" because the Trojan is brought on a computer by an already installed malware which automatically downloads it. "It can also be downloaded unknowingly by a user when visiting malic ... [read more >>]
	13 November 2007, 04:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Maxtor's Infected HDDs Aiming To Steal Government Information
	Yesterday, Seagate confirmed the rumors talking about a potential virus included in the Maxtor Basics 500G portable devices, saying that all the hard discs were removed from the shelves and only a few of them managed to reach the consumers. Today, the Taipei Times informed that no less than 1,800 discs were sent to Taiwan, most of the 500 GB being meant to be used by the government. But what's more interesting is that the dr ... [read more >>]
	13 November 2007, 03:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Infected? Here's an Antivirus to Clean Your Computer!
	I must admit the Commtouch Malware Outbreak Center is a really amazing technology which is pretty useful if your computer is infected with some malicious code. Let me tell you some hot details about it. First of all, the product is meant to provide information about viruses, malware, Trojan horses and other dangerous files and about the antiviruses that block them. Supposing you're infected with a worm, all you need to do is ... [read more >>]
	12 November 2007, 10:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Warning: Famous Websites Infecting Users' Computers!
	It was an already known fact that hackers target famous and well-known websites in order to distribute malware and to infect users' computers but this time the alert is pretty critical. Mary Landersman of ScanSafe wrote on the official blog of the company that IndiaTimes was infected by some serious malicious files which attempt to exploit old unknown Windows vulnerabilities. Alexa placed IndiaTimes on position 481 which und ... [read more >>]
	12 November 2007, 04:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Special Christmas Gift from Maxtor: Buy a HDD and Get a Free... Virus?!
	OK, that's smart. Seriously, have you ever thought that you can infect your computer by installing a brand new HDD on your computer? No more spam messages, no more malicious links, no more nothing. Just pay for a Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 and you're infected. Simple as that. But how can this happen? It seems like the folks at Segate didn't notice that some of their devices are infected with a pretty dange ... [read more >>]
	12 November 2007, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Diamonds Against Cancer, TBC, Viruses
	Ladies know why diamonds are their best friends: because they can turn people healthy. A new research carried at the Northwestern University and published in Nano Letters has revealed that nanodiamonds could be the new class of medical nanomaterials for delivering anti-cancer chemicals to cells without the negative side effects linked with currently employed delivery materials. Nanodiamonds could also be employed against tubercul ... [read more >>]
	12 November 2007, 02:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Music Downloads Allowed at Work?
	A new survey commissioned by security vendor McAfee revealed that most employees are allowed to download music at work although there are numerous risks when it comes to files downloaded from the web. According to Reuters, the survey included no less than 1,000 computer managers who revealed that the employees of their companies are often able to download files from the Internet although it's well known that they can get the ... [read more >>]
	09 November 2007, 09:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Does Sex Protect You Against Cancer?
	Sex is more than physical pleasure: it may bring benefits on a long term. Many philosophies plead for total abstinence and preservation of the sexual energy for a prolonged life, but science comes up with another story. In fact, many researches have showed that sex has a rather healing effect, on both psychical and physical levels. Of course, sex must be healthy, clean as on the other hand there is a wide array of sexually tr ... [read more >>]
	08 November 2007, 16:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

F-Secure Employee Needs a Haircut, Virus Says
	Security company F-Secure was recently attacked by a virus, as part of a DDoS attack which attempted to display a message saying that Mikko Hyppönen, an employee of the firm, needs a haircut. The attack was launched on October 28 but due to a mistake in the virus code, it was unable to display the message mentioned above. It's interesting to see a security company affected by a web attack and this is probably the highest sat ... [read more >>]
	08 November 2007, 06:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

US War Robots Targeted by Computer Viruses
	OK, this sounds pretty funny but it is actually a very serious piece of news which concerns our security (not on the web, the real one). Read this: the US army is afraid that some of its war robots such as helicopters, tanks and other killing machines equipped with software technologies can be controlled by anyone who manages to install a malicious code line inside the installed applications. Sure, you might laugh saying that we& ... [read more >>]
	08 November 2007, 04:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Laser Could Cure AIDS!
	You may have been thrilled by the spectacular fights with laser weapons in the "Stars War". But our worst enemies cannot be cut with a laser sword…heck, we can’t even see them! Bacteria and viruses have killed more humans than any other factor did along history. And if a cure against HIV and other plagues of the 21st century is the focus of many scientific researches nowadays, here comes the laser: this technology could provi ... [read more >>]
	02 November 2007, 06:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

FTC Emails Aiming to Steal Usernames and Passwords
	The Federal Trade Commission confirmed that an avalanche of email messages claiming to be sent by the federal agency aim to steal the usernames and passwords stored on victims' computers. According to the Associated Press, the emails come from frauddep[at]ftc.gov and inform the receivers that the FTC filed a lawsuit against them. Obviously, the information is fake, but the dangerous side of the message is actually the attach ... [read more >>]
	01 November 2007, 07:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How and When Did HIV Enter the US?
	At the beginning of the '80s, US received a sudden shock with the discovery of HIV. The killer was there, later it was found it originated in Africa, but how did it enter the US? Now we finally know: through Haiti, brought by just one person around 1969, much earlier than previously thought! That was the HIV-1 type, and it entered the U.S., from where it spread worldwide. "Our results show that the strain of virus that spawned ... [read more >>]
	30 October 2007, 04:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

When Does the Flu Hit Harder?
	Everybody knows that flue hits hardest in winter, but what aspects favor the virus? A new research shows that lower temperatures and humidity are the main responsible factors. Many causes had been enumerated for explaining the infection's boom during the winter months, like people's tendency to reunite for more time indoors or a decrease in the activity of the immune system during the winter, but all these are just suggestion ... [read more >>]
	26 October 2007, 03:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does HIV Evolve, from Birth to Death?
	This is a headache-giving job: finding a cure against HIV. Now, a new research made at the University of Florida has revealed the way HIV changes over the course of a person’s lifetime into a more lethal form that leads to the onset of full-blown AIDS and new therapeutic agents could target the virus earlier during its development. "We were very interested in understanding how the virus mutates from the beginning of the infection ... [read more >>]
	17 October 2007, 05:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Virus-made Devices
	We know that viruses 'produce' only diseases. But what if they could produce even ... devices? A MIT team led by Angela Belcher, a professor of materials science and biological engineering, has managed to use viruses that cling together in a solution to form fibers several centimeters long and almost as strong as a strand of nylon. This is the first time viruses have been used for making nanomaterials. The viruses can organ ... [read more >>]
	17 October 2007, 04:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Get Your Coolest Kitty Picture, Right Here!
	Here’s a great offer for you! Click on a link and not only get a free Kitty Card from Psycho Cat, but you also get a nice virus infection! How about that? I haven’t written anything about Storm in quite a while – it was about time it popped up again! You know, Storm, it’s old, but always ... [read more >>]
	12 October 2007, 04:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

“Microsoft” Tells People to Install Viruses!
	"Oh my God, Microsoft says I have virus issues and that I should download a program to get rid of them!" If you are just surfing the web and suddenly a Microsoft warning pops up from a site, saying that you have serious security issues on your machine, then don’t believe it – it’s all a hoax! McAfee Avert Labs warns in a blog post that hackers will pretend to be Microsoft and tell users to download a program to stay ... [read more >>]
	12 October 2007, 03:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Retarded Malware
	Malware seems to have a certain graphic that it loyally follows and once it heads for a certain direction, it keeps going that way like there’s no turning back. Well, that is what happens most of the times, but it seems that as of late, we’ve had our share of retarded malware and by that I mean threats that popped up later than expected. It seems that some virus creators do not follow the trend and instead of doing what everyone ... [read more >>]
	10 October 2007, 10:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Infection Spreads Like Fire in China!
	China has a very large population, the largest in the world, with more than 1.31 billion people! One huge country and a pretty well informatized one too. I guess that due to this huge number of inhabitants and the fact that a lot of them have PCs, computer virus infections spread real fast. All a malware writer has to do is launch a worm and boom! It infects hundreds of thousands of computers, maybe a million, like Fujacks did! ... [read more >>]
	09 October 2007, 11:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Human Sperm; Blonde, Blue Eyed Children and the Mad Cow
	Mad cow hits hard in our plans of spreading the European seed. American families that want to have the blond, blue-eyed Scandinavian toddler find it now harder to get that sperm. In May 2005, the FDA banned sperm import from any European country with cases of mad cow disease, from Denmark to the UK. Now even the best-stocked sperm banks are affected by this decision. "We still have a little bit left, but not much," said Claus Rod ... [read more >>]
	02 October 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Distributing Viruses and Malware Through Search Engine
	This is not new but it seems like it is getting more serious. Google is now assaulted by a considerable number of dangerous websites which redirect the users to virus equipped pages attempting to infect the visitors' computers. The Google Watchdog did an interesting analysis over this matter and revealed that most of the spamming websites included in the Google SERP are coming from .CN domains. It seems the spammers pref ... [read more >>]
	02 October 2007, 05:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Netsky Still The Most Dangerous Virus!
	Remember how I said that the web is changing and so is the threat landscape? Well, that’s true, except for one thing though – NetSky seems to be the most widely spread virus out there and nobody can take that title away from[admark=1] it. "Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.q", as it has been dubbed by Kaspersky experts, is the most widely spread threat out there in the month of September too. 25.22 percent of virus infections had NetSk ... [read more >>]
	02 October 2007, 05:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does the Bird Flu Virus Attack the Human Body?
	Bird flue virus is regarded as a major global threat to human health: H5N1 has severely affected the poultry industry in many countries and even if it has killed a little more than 200 human victims, the death rates are high. But fear comes especially from a possible mutation or hybridization with common human flu virus: it could provoke a global pandemic as we still do not have an efficient cure against the deadly virus. A ne ... [read more >>]
	28 September 2007, 05:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Hidden Aspects of Hacking and Viruses
	I wanted to write about this for a long time, since it is pretty important, but I never got the chance to do it; plus, there wasn’t enough material to back up my statements… until now. Sophos expert Fraser Howard wrote a great technical paper on "Modern web attacks" that is very inspiring and also ... [read more >>]
	28 September 2007, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No Injections With the Future Jelly Vaccine
	Children could no longer be terrified because of a new method of delivering a vaccine developed at Texas A&M University. The new vaccine would turn into a jelly when sprayed into the nose. "Even though trial treatments are being used to treat bird flu in humans, the vaccine has the potential for numerous other uses, such as for the common flu shot," said Dr. Ian Tizard, professor of pathobiology in the College of ... [read more >>]
	28 September 2007, 03:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Tutorial: How to Get Rid of That Pesky Virus
	Have you ever been really annoyed by a virus? There are some threats that are really pesky and you can’t get rid of them. And by this, I mean that you can’t make them go away using the AV. I’m going to give you a little tutorial about one way to eliminate them, if you’re running Windows. Here’s an example – NOD32 disclosed a virus, "WIN32/VB.NFZ Trojan" infecting a file ctfmon.exe. So the anti-virus found the threat ... [read more >>]
	26 September 2007, 03:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

“Microsoft Error” Gets People Hacked
	Some of us, the normal users, know what e-mails to dodge and when to be cautious about hackers. But some people can’t help it – they’re compelled to open certain e-mails, as it's in the nature of their workplace. And hackers have noticed this, and now they’re exploiting it! Anybody that has a high position in a company and receives an e-mail with the firm’s name in the subject line cannot ignore it, that’s for sure! Most of ... [read more >>]
	25 September 2007, 11:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Panda’s Story Comes to An End
	Everyone thinks that Panda bears are cute, and I sure like ‘em too, but what I really don’t like is a virus that turns icons into Pandas. I’m talking about the Fujacks worm here and its story, from the beginning. Fujacks is a worm type virus, which means it can spread itself really fast and infect a lot of files before you can say "Panda" – it will basically affect any exe file and you can’t miss it. Whenever it inf ... [read more >>]
	24 September 2007, 08:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Iraq War Virus Spread on Yahoo! Messenger
	It’s all about a virus that is spreading over the Messenger – infected computers will send instant messages to users in the infected one’s contact list. The messages contain a link; if you click it, you will get the virus as well and then guess what – you’ll start sending those messages as well. The virus is a worm that spreads really fast, infecting your computer before you can say "anti-virus". And in case you wer ... [read more >>]
	21 September 2007, 09:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Anti-Viruses Are Never Going to Die!
	I was reading the press on the web when I stumbled upon an article on the future of anti-viruses and whether they do have a future or not. For a moment I asked myself the same question – do they have a future? Sure they do! As long as cyber-threats exist, so will AVs. It’s just about ... [read more >>]
	20 September 2007, 08:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

We Need A Virus Encyclopedia!
	Things aren’t always clear when you’re talking about cyber security, and this is why some times, things go bad. Malware is a vague term and refers to a lot of threats, it comes from "malicious" and "software" and a lot of people use this word to dub any cyber-threat. Some don’t use "malware" but use "virus" instead. Like I’ve said many times before, people are insecure because they have no ... [read more >>]
	20 September 2007, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia