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how is BAT_VOBFUS (or similar) dangerous?
I was reading http://about-threats.trendmicro.com/malware.aspx?language=au&name=BAT_VOBFUS.SM earlier today after it turned up in a scan of a friends PC. I suppose I may be missing something vital ...
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Using a VM to access internet when malware blocks internet access?
My computer was recently infected by some malware which had blocked internet access. I had a virtualization software with an OS in it. Surprisingly, I could access the internet from the VM. I know ...
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Use PHP to check uploaded image file for malware?
I want my users to be able to upload a photo. Currently I am not checking the uploaded photo for problems of any kind, although I do limit the size to 32k.
Is there any way for me to check uploaded ...
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Is there a website or free downloadable program to identify and remove malware from an ISO file?
Is there a website or free downloadable program that allows a user to identify and remove multiple types of malware from an ISO file?
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Detecting reflective DLL injection
In the past few years, malware (and some pen-test tools like Metasploit's meterpreter payload) have begun to use reflective DLL injection (PDF) to load a DLL into the memory of a process. The benefit ...
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How can I recognize and find file(s) dropped by malware?
Suppose I am doing malware analysis. How can I recognize if, during the analysis process, a piece of malware dropped a file in my system, and if so, the path of the file?
What are the procedures, ...
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Malware or buggy software gives Low Disk Space warning
Since a few days, I am getting an alert that in my c drive disk space is low. When I verified, free space in my c drive was decreasing hour by hour and there was a stage when it simply said that 0 mb ...
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Javascript Malware: How does it work, and how can it be mitigated?
I am wondering how malware gets served through Javascript. I've noticed a few illegitimate pop-ups while visiting some financial websites. I wonder how malware exploits work against the application ...
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Appilicability of Theoritical Computer Science/Formal methods in Malware research
I would like to know the importance of Theoritical CS/Formal methods in Malware research. Due to the large volume of new malware variants received per day (~50,000 samples/day according to McAfee), ...
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Duqu and other reference material for security people
I would like to read more on Duqu and similar exploits when they appear. The problem is that most references from google are for laymen.
Isn't there a reference website or... that reports on these ...
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Malware - are removal tools acceptable or is bare metal re-install the only safe option?
I see a number of companies offering "malware removal" services. I see some software that claims to be able to remove malware from an infected machine.
Is using a removal software tool to 'clean' an ...
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How can I assess the trust worthiness of a browser add-on?
Having learned a bit more about what add-ons/extensions can do in Firefox, I want to minimize my risk and use some safer mechanism to download videos (FLV in particular) for later viewing.
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Are there any independent organizations doing (publicly available) IT security research?
When looking up security risks on the net I find that all research being cited (if any is cited) always seems to come from the Anti-Malware companies. (just e.g., this article cites F-secure, AVG and ...
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Malicious Websites
Just wanted to get everyone's opinion on this. In Information Security, you get various alerts about particular machines on your network going to sites and/or IPs that have been flagged as ...
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Reverse engineering malware/viruses
Assuming a machine has malware, regardless of how it got there, one thing I would like to learn to do is to take the binary file and reverse engineer it to see what the malware is doing/has already ...
