Can Google's nickname 'King of Malware'

Jakarta - Also referred to as the internet giant, Google is now getting a new nickname. Internet security firm Barracuda Networks refer to Google as the 'King of Malware'.


Provision of this title is not without reason. Because the data released by Barracuda Networks said, malware or a malicious program on Google two times more than the combined malware that is owned by three competitors Bing, Yahoo and Twitte


In his research, analyze approximately 25,000 Barracuda Networks trending topic that is present in 5.5 million search results. For information, trending topic or issue is being discussed so often appears rampant in the internet search results.


As a result, approximately 69 percent of malware found on Google search results. Next, Yahoo is known to save about 18 percent of malware, Bing who also supplies search results to Yahoo's 12 percent contain malware and Twitter by one percent.

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Taxable Virus, Indonesia More Like Format Computer '

Yogyakarta - According to a study presented at antivirus company Kaspersky, the majority of computer users in Indonesia prefer to reformat the hard drive because it did not bother to clean the virus is perched on his computer.

So phrased Product Manager for Kaspersky from Astrindo Servia, Erwin Yovitanto, when met on the sidelines of a roadshow detikINET Kapersky at the Royal Garden Restaurant, Yogyakarta.

"A study found that the Indonesian people mostly prefer to reformat instead of trying to clean the virus on their computer," she says Erwin without mentioning in detail about the study.

However, the habit becomes a challenge to Kaspersky as a developer of security content management solutions to educate computer users in Indonesia. That's the reason why Kasperky held a roadshow.

In between roadshow that was held on Friday (30/07/2010), antivirus software developer released the latest version of its flagship consumer product, namely Kapersky Internet Security 2011, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 and Kaspersky Mobile Security 9.

According to Erwin, the three antivirus it reliable enough to provide security when users are surfing on the internet, either through desktop computers, laptops, and smartphones for mobile phones.

On the occasion roadshows, Kaspersky also bring Watcher System technology that can monitor all computer activity in full. This technology is claimed to be able to create, modify files, system calls, and change the system registers.

One of the latest features of these products is the ability to use the installation CD as an emergency disk that contains a variety of features for scanning or caring for the infected computer without the need to download a bootable operating system.

Antivirus
Varian released Kaspersky antivirus has a variety of features offered. Kaspersky Internet Security 2011, for example, contains a Parental Control module continued to restrict the child into social networking sites, instant messaging, and other specific programs. This product is also claimed to control the file can be downloaded for personal data transfer.

While the new version of Kaspersky Mobile Security 9, Anti-Theft features that can be used by smartphone users to block the phone if lost or stolen, erase its memory, to find via GPS, as well as receive notification about the new SIM number if changed.

Kaspersky Mobile Security 9 is available for mobile users of Microsoft Windows Mobile versions 5.0, 6.0, 6.1, 6.5, and Symbian mobile phone operating bersistim 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4 series 60 Nokia. "In the future, will be present also for users of Android phones and BlackBerry," said Erwin.

Source:  DetikInet

Winsta 'bubble' Make Full Hardisk

Jakarta - Be careful with this one virus. This malicious program named Winsta can 'bubble' so hard the victim can immediately filled by him.

As told by analysts from Vaksincom antivirus, Adi Saputra, in his statement on Friday (30/07/2010), also known as Winsta Stuxnet. In addition to a full hard drive, files Winsta also hide a legitimate DLL file from Realtek, so a bit difficult to detect.

Initial spread of this virus, according to Adi, is through malicious websites. These include sites with pornographic content, illegal software and sites 'gray' other.

According to analysts Vaksincom Alfons Tanujaya, to ITGazine, Friday (7/30/2010), the spread Winsta in Indonesia is quite large. Even Indonesia ranked second this Stuxnet alias Winsta infection after Iran.

Virus Files

Furthermore, Adi said, if the script Trojan Stuxnet from dangerous sites were already running, it will appear three files on the victim's computer. All three are Winsta.exe, mrxcls.sys and mrxnet.sys.

Files named Winsta that will swell in size as the existing hard disk space. Usually the victim partition is the partition where the Windows operating system are located.

The name of the file, Winsta, dicatut of native Windows file name for the program called WinStation Monitor. This application is a tool that is used on Windows 2000 and is located in C: \ Program Files \ Resources \ Winsta.exe.

Virus Symptoms & Effects

The most visible effect of this virus is of course the hard drive is suddenly full. As a result of the hard drive is full, some programs may not run properly.

In addition, Stuxnet infections also occur in the following system files:


    * Scvhost, so the computer is difficult to connect to the network.
    * LSASS, the computer can be slow, hang or restart by itself.
    * Spoolsv, the computer can not print a document / image through the printer. Source: Detikinet

Detail 100 Million Users Facebook Leaks to the Public

An Internet security consultant revealed, at least there are 100 million users of Facebook, which detail her personal information leaked to the public.

Ron Bowles, the consultant uses a series of specific code to scan the profile up, the gathering of data that are not hidden by the user's privacy settings.

Furthermore, data collected in a list form of files that can be shared and downloaded. Known, the URL the user profile along with names and ID they dominate the list.

"I tell this to highlight the issue of data privacy. But up to deny, all these data have become public information and spread rapidly in the Internet universe," Bowles said as quoted by the BBC News, Thursday (29/07/2010).

On the Pirate Bay, the biggest file sharing site in the world, this list has spread and downloaded more than 1,000 users.

Responding to the report, up in his statement to the BBC News says, listing such information has been widespread and accessible to anyone on the Internet.

"Facebook users have their own information and the right to divide the desired content, to whom wrote that they go, anytime," the statement up.

According to Facebook, in this case, the information the user is approved for publication were collected by others and circulated on Google, Bing and other search engines, including Facebook. The company is owned by Mark Zuckerberg insisted that no personal data is leaked to the public.

Source: DetikInet

Yahoo Japan Switch Use Google Search

Jakarta - Yahoo Japan has signed an agreement to use Google's search engine instead of Microsoft's Bing.


The agreement was announced by Google's vice president of operations Asia Pacific region and Japan, Daniel Alegre in his blog posting.


Alegre says, Yahoo Japan will use Google's search results and Google's technology to complement the search ads. "Through this partnership, revenue from search advertising will be divided among the companies supplying the ads, in this case that Yahoo Japan and Google,"


On the other hand, it strikes a deal that Microsoft has spent years working hard in order to match the use of Google services that lead the market.


U.S. Yahoo Bing install Microsoft to supply search results, but apparently Microsoft can not convince Yahoo Japan to participate using its search engine.


U.S. Yahoo is an investor in Yahoo Japan, but not the only one. There are other investors namely telecommunications and media companies from Japan, Softbank, which holds a larger stake there. Thus, the decision of Yahoo Japan is not associated with Yahoo USA.

Flash 10.1 Answer Steve Jobs Challenges

Jakarta - Three months ago in an open letter, Apple CEO Steve Jobs challenged to prove the ability of the software Adobe besutannya - Flash - to be working fine. Now, Adobe has the answer.


The answer is try out when released Adobe Flash Player 10.1 which is said to run on the Android mobile operating system 2.2 or Froyo.


"Flash Player 10.1 will be released on smart phones and tablet computers. Users can easily upgrade to the Android 2.2,"said the Adobe.


What tools are going to get Froyo and Flash Player 10.1? Streak is the Dell, Google Nexus One, HTC Evo, Desire HTC, HTC Incridible, Motorola Droid, Motorola and Samsung Galaxy S. Milestone


Adobe also said it will provide this new Flash Player on your BlackBerry, Windows Phone, MeeGo and Symbian.


Flash did not become a perfect application. However, to Adobe, this is a big step to make Flash a formidable opponent in the competition of mobile multimedia