As some spammer guy abuses my domain name again, my mail server got some work to do. Anyways, this time there’s a new bastard out there pretending to be a video of Angelina Jolie. For making it through the common malware scanners the virus is hidden in a password protected rar archive… Keep your eyes open, out there!
Category: Security
Bad software, virii, spam…
Strange requests
I was analyzing some logfiles of my webserver during the last days and watched a huge number of strange hits coming from rather strange hosts: index.php?page=http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/path/to/file.txt What the heck is going on here? What does the URL do? Well – it’s there for purpose – so let’s fetch it. (URL above is cloaked for security reasons) A good […]
Too much
It shouldn’t be anything new to you that I am collecting malware for submitting the samples to the AV labs. For processing the samples I am using a simple PC which checks every single sample if it’s a valid binary and prepares it for shipping. Since the update of my traps I was prepared to face a new […]
Malware and the environment
I know, the actual topic sounds strange to you and you might want to look at your schedule first – but I can assure you, the 1st of april is already over and this is not an april fool. But have you ever thought about malware and the health of the environment?
Gotcha?
I don’t know your experience regarding malware, but I already got my favorites there as they’re pretty nasty due to their behaviour or the fact that they are not known by the (currently installed) scanner. It happened again those days. A friend complained about her laptop acting strange. As I am an optimist, I try to avoid thinking […]
Relocate a server
As you know, I am collecting unknown malware and send those files to the anti virus laboratories to let them find a way to cure infected machines. Since some time I was forced to run the malware sorting on my laptop as the server I used to use broke. But you know, a laptop can never replace a […]