September 23rd, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua One of the major problems that we face on Internet is infected website, some website owner they are not aware that they are hosting viruses. Usually criminals inject malicious code on to innocent web pages by using Google search engine for locating vulnerable website, and they mainly focus on those parts of the website not [...]
July 12th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A rootkit is software that enables continued privileged access to a computer while actively hiding its presence from administrators by subverting standard operating system functionality or other applications. Rootkits are using hooking technique to intercept function calls or messages or events passed between software components communication by adding a special function to the top of [...]
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Tags: GMER, Malware, Malware Analyses, Rootkit, RootRepeal, Tools, Viruses 
3 Comments » July 11th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Security researchers at Websense have discovered a new Trojan that are using a windows system to disable and delete antivirus software and compromising victim machine. The Malicious program installs itself as the Windows input method editor (IME) and then stop all AV processes and delete the executable files and mask itself in the system as [...]
March 26th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New malware has been observed by Vietnamese computer security company Bach Khoa, The Malicious software overwrites programs update to bypass antivirus software. W32.Fakeupver.trojan is the name of this new Trojan, first what the malware do is replacing automatic update system process for Adobe, Java, Deep Freeze or even Windows operating system to trick AntiMalware. By [...]
September 14th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New York Times one of the largest News paper in the USA has warned readers of its website on Monday about malicious software masquerading as an advertisement. This is after some bloggers reported that when opening the New York Time website their local antivirus alerts of an existing Trojan in the site. The infected advertisement [...]
May 14th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Computer zombies are out to get you. That may sound like a tagline from a bad B movie, but there’s truth behind it. A “zombie” in the computer lexicon is a computer that has been taken over by a piece of malicious software planted by a hacker typically for the purpose of secretly sending out [...]
March 26th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Researchers at SRI International updated their Conficker paper. They have provided a very useful analysis of the Conficker malware. The last variant of Conficker, referred to as Conficker C leaves as little as 15% of the original B code base untouched the main purpose of the Conficker is to provide the authors with a secure [...]
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