Cyber Attack on Google, Facilitated by Google China Employees

Reuters reports that, Google is investigating whether one or more employees may have helped facilitate a sophisticated cyber-attack from China that resulted in theft of its intellectual property. Google is also still in the process of scanning its internal networks since the cyber-attack in mid-December.

Security analysts says that, the malware used in the Google attack was a modification of a trojan called Hydraq.

According to Chinese local media, some Google China employees were denied access to internal networks after Jan. 13, while some staff were put on leave and others transferred to different offices in Google’s Asia Pacific operations.

Google has denied rumours that it has already decided to shut down its China offices. Google is going to have talks with the Chinese government, before making any final decision on the matter.

Autorun Eater v2.4 Beta 1

We’re about to wrap up the development of Autorun Eater v2.4 but we need your help to test it!

It works alright on our computers but we can’t be too sure if it works on other computers as well. If you have some free time to spare, then maybe you can help us by downloading the beta version and testing it out to see if it works for you. More details can be obtained from the zip file which is available for download.

We hope to wrap up latest by mid-May if all goes according to plan.

Thank you for helping out! :)

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AutoRun Remover

It checks the Autorun files in your all drives and ask you to delete it if it appears dangerous for you computer.


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Free Autorun Blocker

Windows operating system hides many useful tools and features that we sometimes may not be even aware of and we simply take them as granted. One of these useful features is a so called Windows “auto-run” utility which pops up a small window notifying us of every removable media we insert into computer such as CD, DVD or USB key. Thanks to Windows auto-run, we get convenient way of playing movies or listening to our favorite songs with just one mouse click. Unfortunately we are not the only one who like Windows auto-run feature. Malware writers like it too.

One of the first examples of trojan that was designed to take advantage of auto-run feature was notorious Switchblade Trojan, which was able (if installed on USB key) to steal all important data, password and other personal information from Windows operating system without you ever knowing about it. These days Switchblade is not so dangerous as before but instead one even more dangerous virus stepped into its place. This is so called Conficker or Downadup virus which also takes advantage of Windows auto-run to sneak into one’s computers.

Because Conficker is a very nasty virus and by nature difficult to remove we suggest you to stop Conficker and similar trojans by disabling Windows auto-run feature once and for all.

Now there are numerous ways of disabling auto-run utility but one of the most convenient ways of doing it is to download small and free Autorun Blocker and let it do the job instead of you.

The procedure is short and simple. All you have to do is to install Autorun Blocker, run it and when prompted to choose “disable autorun on all drives”. This will permanently disable Windows auto-run feature and secure you from any malware designed to automatically infect computer via USB.

Requirements:

Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 2000, Windows XP

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Microsoft to unveil Beta 2 for IE8

The world's largest software giant Microsoft Corp. unveils the second test version of Internet Explorer 8 which is complete with features update on the Web browser, most commonly used. This second test version is beta 2. Although the internet Explorer enjoys a market share of almost 75%, the new version has come up with new features.

This version being aimed at a larger customer base will enable convenience, flexibility and complete security.

A part of the market share of Internet Explorer was taken away by Mozilla's Firefox, so Microsoft is on the way to bring up more updates on Internet Explorer.

•The beta 2 version will have features similar to the ones found in Firefox 3 and will include a "smart" address bar too so that users can be directed to the unique website addresses.

•This version will also have a mode called "InPrivate Browsing" so that the temporary and the previous internet files and also the cookies are not stored on a user's PC.

•Also the version is having feature which will allow a user to obstruct the content coming from the third-party site. This enhanced capability will block the third party from tracking the user's online behaviour.

•The other features known as "Activities" will also be included in this version which will allow the user to use information such as the address existing on one page along with other service like the online mapping without even coming out from the original site.


The official launch date of Internet Explorer 8 has not been declared by Microsoft as yet.