Malware vaccination tricks: blue pills or red pills
Malware vaccination tricks are offered for various sorts and families of malware, but can and should we use them? What are the pros and cons? Read all about it.
A Look at Malware with Virtual Machine Detection
What you can do against malware with Virtual Machine detection.
Online PC Support Scams: Turning the Tables
You may recall a post I wrote back in April about fake Microsoft phone support calls. I had received a call from scammers whose job was to trick me into buying a bogus program for ‘only’ $299. When they saw I was not willing to pay, they got mad and deleted documents and pictures off…
Phone scammers call the wrong guy, get mad and trash PC
[ Need assistance? Please consult our Help & Resource Page ] Have you ever received a call from someone with a heavy Indian accent from Microsoft saying your computer had errors or viruses? The purpose of these calls is to get an easy $299 (or whatever amount they choose) by scaring you into thinking there’s…
Anonymizing Traffic for your VM And Capturing Traffic
Security Level: High / Hardcore Purpose: To hide who you are while performing research through your browser AND protecting your host system from drive-by download attacks AND being able to perform dynamic malware analysis and capture malicious traffic moving between the malware and the C&C. (Whew, that’s a lot of ANDs. =D) Benefits: Hide your…