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<title>AV-Comp. Retrospective/Proactive Test 11/2009 released</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23407778</link>
<description><![CDATA[AV-Comparatives Retrospective/Proactive Test November 2009 released: http://www.av-comparatives.org/

(av-comparatives > Comparatives/Reviews > Main Tests > Retrospective/Proactive Test November 2009)

Note: for reason of copyright issues it is not allowed to provide this post with a direct link to the test
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<pubDate>2009-11-28 20:25:56</pubDate>
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<title>Happy Thanksgiving</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23398496</link>
<description><![CDATA[I just want to wish everyone here a very happy and safe Thanksgiving.  You folks are one of the things I give thanks for!  ;)

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<pubDate>2009-11-26 10:06:58</pubDate>
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<title>[FREEZING] Spybost S&#x26;amp;D Updater</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23407782</link>
<description><![CDATA[Is anyone else having issues using Spybot S&D Updater today?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-28 20:26:44</pubDate>
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<title>Is SpyBot&#x27;s Web site down?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23408246</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hi!

http://www.safer-networking.org/ isn't connect for me right now. :(

Thank you in advance. :)]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-28 22:50:03</pubDate>
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<title>Once infected, Impossible to detect</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23401309</link>
<description><![CDATA[3 years ago on my behalf of being a moron i downloaded a game cheat. I clicked the .exe and nothing happened. So i just deleted it

2 months later i go into my rs premium account and realize someone else logged in and uploaded files of the game i used to play and a brute forcer, now no one brute forced my account because the ip originated from canada and they were using my account from the same ip and didn't even change the password and uploaded files of the game i used to play.

But anyway i scanned my pc with all anti malwares and found NOTHING, i scanned with anti rootkits and i found nothing. No matter how hard i tried i found nothing on my win xp pro. so i decide to format and reinstall

After a little hovering around the forum i heard it was poison ivy rat, And with a little research i found out people actually pay for undetected rats...What the heck? 

So if you're infected by an undetected rat which is of course done by your fault, You have no way of finding it

I even went as far as to find common registry entries of the rat and found none thus leading me to believe it was undetected and paid for. 

Luckily i had an rs premium account and caught on to that.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-27 00:34:40</pubDate>
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<title>Linksys N routers: open to Cisco&#x27;s snooping?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23400525</link>
<description><![CDATA[The new models of Linksys N routers, WRTxyzN, are supplied with the Linksys application Easy Link Advisor (ELA).  ELA is acts as a management gateway to the router.  Recent events have demonstrated that these routers will eventually invoke Parental Controls, outside of the control of the user.  

Parental control is, from out of the box, set by the supposed optional add-on of Trend Micro Security. 

What is happening with users is that if Easy Link Advisor is installed, sooner or later web sites are blocked, purportedly by Trend Micro Security that in most cases has not been installed by the user.

When the web site blocking is invoked, the users have no option within Easy Link Advisor to reset Parental Controls, in most cases.  There is NO OPTION.  Users report than neither Trend Micro nor Cisco/Linksys can offer a solution other than pointing the finger at each other.  This is very mysterious and makes the new N routers worthless to users.

Now comes Cisco/Linksys with a solution: an entirely new application Cisco Network Security that will allow users to reset the Trend Micro Security settings.

Here's the catch: Cisco admits that the web security "feature" is embedded IN THE FIRMWARE of these routers, and cannot be removed, but only turned off.

Now, Cisco has cooperated the the US Government in developing commercial routers with back-door snooping features available.  

This fiasco with Cisco/Linksys N routers, invocation of Parental Controls that are embedded in firmware, with no notice to users, and the inability of users to turn the damned parental control off, speak volumes about what else is in the firmware of these new N routers, like back-door snooping of user's web activities.

Cisco isn't telling; Trend Micro is silent.  What is telling is that Cisco admits there is non-traditional code in the firmware of their N consumer routers, and that special methods must be used to access the embedded control flags to turn off web security.

Something is not right with these user-level routers if the installed firmware provides access by others to the user's activity on the web.  Maybe next week we will have to sit through a ten minute hate.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-26 20:07:13</pubDate>
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<title>sysguard2010.com</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23402193</link>
<description><![CDATA[Friend has a problem she states she cannot run any app on her pc which is running windows XP Home when she tries to open anything from antivirus to solitaire  it says program or file has been infected do you wish to activate your antivirus software now if click yes it takes you to web page to purchase sysguard 2010.
Is there anyway to remove this malware or spyware. She said she tried to to open in safe mode and run mcafee software but program will not run in safe mode ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-27 10:19:00</pubDate>
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<title>&#x22;Update Windows&#x22;??</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23406107</link>
<description><![CDATA[After checking for a few days that no one's computer blew up with the out-of-cycle MS updates, went to the MU site. Was greeted by a message that before I could run updates, I had to "update some Windows component needed for updates to run". And a button that says "Update Windows".

Now, in the past some message similar to this usually meant a WGA notification push (I do have WGA enabled, but not notifications). But somehow the wording of this seemed very suspicious; it just didn't sound quite like the messages I've seen requiring an update to the MS update software in the past. And since my computer was showing some hinky behavior in the last couple of days (multiple scans with Symantec corporate, MalwareBytes, Panda's online tool, and SuperAntiSpy all come up clean and nothing funny in HJT, TCPview or ProcExp), I just closed the window without updating.

Did anyone else get such a message with this last round of updates? It's not mentioned in the thread here announcing the updates, which made me all the more suspicious. 
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The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it. &#9;-- Stanley Kubrick]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-28 11:21:58</pubDate>
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<title>Thousands of BT customers accused of piracy</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23405465</link>
<description><![CDATA[V3.co.uk | 27 Nov 2009

Up to 13,000 BT customers accused of illegally downloading content are likely to receive legal letters in the new year.

The letters from ACS:Law Solicitors will be demanding payments of hundreds of pounds, and thousands of customers from other internet service providers (ISPs) may also be affected.

The law firm has sent an estimated 25,000 letters in the past two years to people it believed to be guilty of using illegal peer-to-peer sites, according to data from Being Threatened?, which claims to protect innocent individuals in such cases.

ACS:Law obtains its information on individuals who have been file sharing through data monitoring companies that track file-sharing networks.

Andrew Crossley, a lawyer at ACS:Law, said that the mailout to BT customers was the result of information from a German tracking client called DigiProtect, which apparently identified 25,000 IP addresses linked to illegal downloading. 

ACS:Law sent the Digiprotect data to BT which, as an ISP, is legally obliged to send back the names and addresses of the customers linked to the IP addresses.

Crossley explained that many of the 25,000 addresses will link back to the same individual, and only around half will receive letters once the redundant and repeat addresses are omitted.

BT said that it could take up to nine months to supply ACS:Law with the details, which would see the letters sent next August, although Crossley expects the details to be handed over before that, probably in January.http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2254106/bt-customers-caught-illegally
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<pubDate>2009-11-28 05:26:37</pubDate>
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<title>ZoneAlarm forum suspended?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23398372</link>
<description><![CDATA[As per subject! Is it just me or the ZA forum has been suspended?  :o :o

http://forums.zonealarm.com/

/zapzap]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-26 09:27:14</pubDate>
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