Vundo is a Trojan Horse, which is responsible for pushing an advertising lots of scareware and rogue antispyware software like Antivirus 360, WinPC Defender etc.

What are Scareware or Rogue Antispyware

If you are wondering, let us tell you that as soon as these scareware software gets entry into your system, they start yelling that your system is infected with all sorts of malware and spyware infections and you need to take urgent actions to remove them. They take the help of fake alarm messages, fake animation windows which look like as if the program is actually scanning your computer and browser hijacking to convince you that your system is infected. Read the full story

Avira Antivirus is one of the best Free Antivirus Software available on Internet today. I had used Avira on one of my office computer for the last one and half year and had absolutely no complaint. It is different matter that now I had replaced it with Norton 360 after the Symantec decided to reduce some weight from bloated Norton Security Software.

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Browser Hijacking is a common practise among the rogue security software to infect user’s computers with malware.

Recently, one of my colleague sent me this screenshot.

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AutoRun.Infi is the configuration file used by the Microsoft Windows machines to decide the action to be taken when a removal media like a USB or Audio / Video CD is inserted into the machine.

It surely saves some time for the user when without clicking or serching the file structure, he is able to get the desired action performed by the media. But many times, AutoRun feature has been seriously exploited by Malware to execute malware codes and infect your system.

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Internet Security Blog: It is our constant endeavor and the very purpose to discover some excellent Free Internet Security Tools, which can do their bit in enhancing your Internet Security.

In this context, we just discovered a neat little Firefox Plugin, LinkExtend, which gives a lot of security related information about a particular website. This is nicely organized in the form on different buttons on a toolbar, which you can click and see more information.

This plugin also works with the search engine results. LinkExtend provides tiny buttons in front of different search results, which give valuable information about the differetn aspects of the website like Security, Kid Safe or Ethics.

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