PandaTV #36 - Fake virus alerts spread across facebook, Spam-mails as videos, IT Excellence

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Fake virus alerts spread across facebook
PandaLabs has just detected the massive propagation of a fake virus alert using facebook. This is just another attempt to infect users with fake antivirus programs. The fake warning is distributed via email and users are forwarding or publishing it on Facebook walls, thereby further spreading it out widely. The text of the fake warning reads as follows: - Has your facebook been running slow lately? Go to Settings and select application settings, change the dropdown box to added to profile. If you see one in there called un named app delete it Its an internal spybot. - There is no corresponding link, but if users search the Web for more information, they will encounter numerous malicious websites designed to download fake antiviruses, which in this case is cold LivePcCare.


Spam-mails as videos
Malware spreading via YouTube is a common method. Usually the first step is to post harmful tweets on Twitter, which link to a YouTube video. Normally, this is a fake site, which asks you to install some kind of codec to watch the video. But now the online criminals have gone one step further: Panda Security discovered a tweet, which directly link to the YouTube site and plays a real video. The video promotes a website for horse racing bets and turns out to be a multimedia presentation of a spam email. The branded site promises richness but first it demands 40 pounds for necessary software.


European IT Excellence Awards 2010 - Finalists announced

The IT Europa European IT Excellence Awards recognise best practices in customer solutions by IT channels across Europe and encourage channel partnerships and relationships across IT and Internet industries. The Awards, organised by IT Europa, are supported by the leading pan-European channel magazine, 8020 EUROPA. The jury says that number and quality of entries this year was extremely high and demonstrates the talent in the channel community across Europe. With finalists from 16 countries these awards are obviously now being seen as the window to the skills of the European IT channel. Panda Security is one of the finalists in the category Software-as-a-Service. The winners will be announced on 25th February in London.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• panda tv
• pandasecurity
• cloud
• antivirus
• facebook
• spam mails
• IT
• Excellence Awards

[TheChaterbox100]

@PIE9850 My apologies, didn't get it. 

[PIE9850]

@TheChaterbox100 i said that that security tool is fucking retarded dumb fuck

[TheChaterbox100]

@PIE9850 Acuses me of being retarded .  Can't even properly form a sentence.

[PIE9850]

@TheChaterbox100 it did to fucking retarded

[TheHailrazer]

dude i just saved my dads computer by not clicking that save button he came acrossed it on face book too.... and thanks for the info panda tv1

[TheChaterbox100]

This happened to me with Myspace I M. It installed security tool though...