Watch out for Olympic themed malware

 The Olympics are here! That means the malware authors are on the hunt for unsuspecting Olympic news seekers. So for the upcoming weeks make sure you watch what you click on when seeking Olympic news. I have already seen reports of people clicking on Olympic news only to lead to a page infected with the BlackHole exploit kit. Malware authors love targeting popular events so be safe while searching.

Thousands may lose internet on Monday

 Sunday is the deadline of cleaning up your machine of a variant of the DNSChanger malware for its server shall be shut down Monday kicking thousands off of the internet. The FBI estimates about 277,000 machines are still infected with about 64,0000 being here in the USA. Its also reported about 50 fortune 500 companies still have the infection on their network.

 The number of machines infected continues to drop thanks to the support of the internet community. For an example Facebook has been warning people since June that their machine is infected and that eventually they would be cut off from the internet. Popular search engine Google has also been informing users that their machines seem to be infected.

 So what should you do to make sure you don't lose your internet Monday? McAfee has setup a website which allows you to test if your machine has the infection. Please dont't wait check your machine now. Its better to be safe then lose your internet connection on Monday.

Android Malware continues to grow

 Android's OpenNess continues to be exploited by malware. Sophos Labs has discovered a botnet sending spam email from Google Android devices. As usage shifts from home computing systems to tablets and smartphones the risk of mobile trojans will continue to grow. Please use caution when downloading new apps to your phone and make sure you trust the vendor before you click the nice install button.

Rising PC Doctor 7 Review

 Its time for another security software review. Today I will be review Rising PC Doctor a free PC Security aid from Rising Security.

 Now Rising PC Doctor is a program I have used in the past. However version 7 (finally) added support for Windows 7 and gave a UI a much needed overhaul. First I must explain what Rising PC Doctor is, however explaining it is very complex because its a little bit of everything. Rising PC Doctor does an "audit" of your computer security checking if any AVs are installed, it has a USB protection program, offers to cleanup junk files, has a cloud powered process manager, gives an over view of what runs on boot, offers to scan for software vulnerabilities, and to top it all off has a Cloud AntiTrojan scanner.

 After installation finishes the first thing Rising PC Doctor does is run a security audit. This audit does contain a cloud anti-trojan scan of the system. On my Vista laptop (which is not new) I think the audit took between 5-10mins it did not give a very clear explanation of what it was doing but once I got into the UI it told me on the last audit my pc got an 80 with one issue. However I was not able to get to where what that problem was but I think it was due to some junk files. Rising also preformed a Cloud Anti-Trojan scan which found nothing on my system. Which is good because that machine was clean so no FP's on a wide range of programs I have installed over the ages. Its important to note the Anti-Trojan system does not have any real time protection so it should not be your first line of defense.

  Rising in the background runs about four processes totaling 15 MBs and using very little CPU. Rising is made in China so don't be alarmed when you load up task manager and notice that a few of the processes descriptions are in Chinese. Personally I think it may be a good idea for a later build to put those in English not to alarm anyone but its not that big of a deal. Rising did not detect Panda Cloud being installed in the AV monitoring part of the application and informed me I should install Rising AV to prevent viruses. I ignored that and sent them an email informing them of this so we shall see if they respond about that. The processes manager is my favorite part of the application. It informs you of Risings Cloud Security rating of the process which is pretty cool it also gives connection information. That StartUp manager database of programs that could be disabled is not very large yet with American programs but I figure that will be corrected eventually. I use to use the USB protection tool in v6 and did what it needed to do well.

 The biggest question is where does Rising fit in to your security setup? It does a little bit of everything however it had two strong points for me which is why I kept it installed. The Cloud AntiTrojan does not conflict with other AV programs so I am going to use it as a backup scanner for all my machines. Also the Cloud Task Manager was very impressive so I will keep it incase a family members gets a malware infection and I need to end a process.

Update on side project: What does this file do?

 So as some of you may have remembered we launched What does this file do? and so today I wanted to take a look at how its going so far. So far the site is slowly building up its database of file information. We are slowly building up our incoming links and page views are not near what we are getting with the IGL-Security blog yet. Make sure you keep your comments coming on what you want to see we want to make sure we are posting things that you want.

Facebook now has an Antivirus Marketplace

 In-case you missed it we have great news coming from the Facebook team. They have teamed up with some of the leading Anti-Malware teams to provide Anti-Virus software to their users. At the Antivirus Marketplace you are able to download 6month trials to full versions of Antivirus programs in order to help protect your machine. Each of the vendors in the program will also be sharing their threat database with Facebook in order to help cut down on Spam/Virus/Malicious posts. So if you are in need of an AV program make sure you check out Facebook if you would like a trial to some leading AV products.

New IGL-Security Service: What Does this file do

 Hi,

 IGL-Security would like to introduce our first expansion/side project since the founding of this blog. This side project is know as "What Does This file Do?". While researching files online I have been disappointed in the lack of sites that give me an over all view of an .exe so I have decided to make my own. You can check the blog/database here which I plan on expanding on quickly. Its going to be exciting to see how it turns out and I will make sure to give file lookup stats here.