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How to write non-sucking voting script

By Giedrius Majauskas on March 29, 2009

Voting is quite basic element of any site that claims to be social. This is a basic tool to get opinion of visitors on topics and works as viral marketing too. However, sooner or later your visitors will question if your script is secure enough to avoid fake voting bots. So let’s cover couple ways [...]

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New development in virus market – Conficker family

By Giedrius Majauskas on March 27, 2009

Conficker (latest one is Conficker.C) is one of the few malwares nowdays that bring something new in the market that relies on new names and new skins only. The thing distinguishing it from crowd is unique registry modification scheme that makes its removal difficult for comon spyware removers. The trick used by Conficker.C is seting up [...]

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Fake spyware remover – Malware Defender 2009 in the wild

By Giedrius Majauskas on March 6, 2009

It looks like Spyware Guard 2009 manufacturers have drained last bits of money from their former scam and produced a new “racer” – Malware Defender 2009. The design is almost the same, even system control center fake alert looks about same too.  If the similar look would not be enough, it uses same tactics to [...]

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WordPress users hack – how to detect security breach in your blog user list

By Giedrius Majauskas on March 5, 2009

Today was eventfull day. While launching a new version of 2-viruses.com I found a security breach, affecting WP 2.x, at least versions 2.0 and 2.1. They partially (at least) work at wordpress 2.7 as well. Apparently, it is possible to 1) add an user to wordpress 2) change it status to administrator somehow and 3) [...]

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