Your PC is under constant attack by viruses, Trojans, Internet-worms and other malware. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal monitors all virus entry points leaving you with a clean and safe machine.

MS05-039 Scan 1.0 is a Windows based detection and analysis utility that can quickly and accurately identify Microsoft operating systems that are vulnerable to the multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities released in the MS05-039 bulletin.

The problem could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The issue is due to a memory corruption error when instantiating the "Msdds.dll" (Microsoft Design Tools Diagram Surface) object as an ActiveX control, which could be exploited by an attacker to take complete control of an affected system via a specially crafted Web page.

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Three days after Microsoft brought out 3 critical patches, exploit code has appeared for a plug and play-vulnerability. This is especially dangerous for Windows 2000 users. The vulnerability makes it possible to remotely control the PC by sending special data packets to the system.. Read on at Software Flash

Goes beyond traditional PC firewalls to protect your entire computer ? including your operating system and programs ? from hackers, spyware, and other Internet threats.

The beta version of Norton AntiVirus 2006 for Windows 2000/XP is now available for download.

Norton AntiVirus 2006 includes new improvements and features. Download the product now! Surf the Internet. Play your favorite games. Symantec is interested in your feedback and will give a FREE copy of Norton AntiVirus 2006 to the first 50 beta users who submit undocumented bugs. Winners will be notified via email.

Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) helps users control how their computers exchange data with other computers on the Internet or local network.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal is powered by a unique integrated technology for unknown virus searching, based on the principals of second-generation heuristic analysis. Because of this, the program is able to protect you from even unknown viruses. By using the integrated Control Center in Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal, it enables you to create a flexible schedule for the program components to be started and to automatically download and apply updates to your anti-virus databases via the Internet.

Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) helps users control how their computers exchange data with other computers on the Internet or local network.

ZoneAlarm includes five interlocking security services that deliver easy-to-use, comprehensive protection. Unlike any other security utility, it incorporates a firewall, Application Control, an Internet Lock, dynamically assigned Security Levels and Zones. Combined, these elements yield the strongest security possible.

Jetico Personal Firewall software provides you with security against hackers who try to access your PC when you are connected to the Internet. Having inherited the Open architecture principles from BestCrypt, the Jetico Personal Firewall allows you to construct a strong yet accurate security policy and provides clear control over your network connections.

Security Update 2005-006 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the following components:

Mac OS X 10.4.1 - Mac OS X 10.3.9

"Ransom-ware" is relatively new term that Panda Antivirus researchers have dubbed for a new form of malicious code that infects PCs, and then demands money in return for cleaning up the machine.

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About:Buster removes the Home Search Assistant.

Symptoms:

Internet security experts report that a new Sober worm variant is spreading epidemically in Western Europe. After only 24 hours the new Sober worm already accounts for 77 percent of all virus traffic on the internet - truly an unusual high number.

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A tool that allows IE users to quickly change their browser?s security and content display settings has been made available to users of new Outpost Firewall Pro.

This article talks about the soon to come Google Autolinks feature which has been very controversial on the webmaster world and will explain why it is a serious issue, and perhaps even illegal. read more @ Iceteks

It is possible to create specially crafted ARJ archives that cause a buffer overflow. This allows an attacker to execute code of his choice on the target system. Note that a severity class has been assigned to each product family separately as the risk for successful exploitation of this vulnerability varies

Vnunet reports computer users have been warned to be on their guard when viewing images after the discovery of a vulnerability affecting the processing of PNG (Portable Network Graphic) files by popular applications including MSN Messenger and Windows Media Player. The issue affects applications including Windows Media Player 9.0 (when running on Windows 2000, XP Service Pack 1 and Server 2003), Windows Messenger version 5.0 (standalone version that can be installed on all supported operating systems), and MSN Messenger 6.1 and 6.2.

Background

International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to
spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs.