AOL software labelled as 'badware'
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Health inspectors find fault with client code Privacy watchdogs have slapped a health warning on the latest version of AOL's client software, AOL 9.0.â¦
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Attackers could bombard PCs using instant messenger's "away" feature. AOL says a fix is imminent.
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A survey conducted by internet service provider America Online (AOL) found that 20% of home computers were infected by a virus or worm, and that various forms of snooping programs such as spyware and adware are on 80% of systems.
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An attack combining malicious codes on Web sites and end-user laziness could compromise millions of routers still configured with their out-of-the-box defaults.
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America Online ha annunciato l&#39;introduzione di un dispositivo di sicurezza per proteggere le reti dall&#39;intrusione di crackers. Il progetto di Aol prevede il lancio di Aol PassCode un apparato di sicurezza
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AOL has filed two lawsuits, while EarthLink and Yahoo! each filed a single lawsuit. The three Microsoft lawsuits allege that defendants spoofed the domains of all four ISPs and used open proxies to route the emails.
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(InfoWorld) - A critical flaw in the way that the AOL's instant messaging client, AIM,Â displays Web-based graphics could be exploited by criminals to create a self-copying worm attack, security researchers are warning. The flaw was discovered by researchers at Core Security Technologies, which has been working with AOL over the past few weeks to patch the problem. AOL's servers are now filtering instant messaging traffic to intercept any attacks, but the company has yet to patch the underlying problem in its client software, security researchers said Tuesday. The flaw has to do with the way the AIM software uses Internet Explorer's software to render HTML messages. By sending a maliciously encoded HTML message to an AIM user, an attacker could run unauthorized software on a victim's computer or force the IE browser to visit a maliciously encoded Web page, said Core CTO IvÃ¡n Arce. This type of flaw could be exploited to create a self-replicating worm attack, according to both Core's Arce and Aviv Raff, a security researcher who on Tuesday reported that he'd discovered a related flaw in AIM. "The frightening thing about this vulnerability is that it can be easily exploited to create a massive IM worm, because it doesn't require any user interaction," Raff said. No attacks based on these flaws have been reported. Computer worms were front page news in 2003 and 2004 when Blaster, Sobig, and Sasser gummed up PCs around the world. And while Web-based worms have been in the news, a widespread instant messaging worm would be something new. Arce says that the safest thing is for AIM users to either upgrade to the 6.5 beta code or to downgrade to a 5.9 version of the software, which does not support the HTML rendering capability. But Raff offered different advice, saying that AIM 6.5 is still vulnerable to the flaw he discovered. According to him the best thing would be for AOL to "fix the underlying code," although AIM 5.9 is "probably not vulnerable to this specific vulnerability," he said. AOL may not be planning to fix its AIM code any time soon, according to a statement provided by the company late Tuesday. "We have resolved all of the issues presented to us by Core Security within all past, current, and future versions of AIM," AOL said without commenting on Raff's findings. Users should still be concerned, however. Core's Arce said that he was worried that hackers could find ways around AOL's filters. What AOL has done is "just one portion of the solution, and that's not the most effective portion," he said. "The most effective solution is to run a client that doesn't have the problem."
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America Online Inc. (AOL) has decided not to fully support Microsoft Corp.&#39;s Sender ID spam-fighting plan after the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the open- source
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Worried about spyware? spam? "spim"? AOL wants to set your mind at rest. Also: Putting patches in place.
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Pete Tong on New Year's eve A mis-firing anti-virus update from CA issued on Monday wrongly identified legitimate JavaScript files as a virus.â¦
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The anti virus software will be available when subscribers download a new version of AOL&#39;s client software, AOL 9.0 Security Edition, in November.
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Blog: Popular add-ons could have their update process hijacked by man-in-the-middle attacks.
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Although more than two-thirds of home computer users think they're safe from online threats, an AOL survey found that 20% of home computers were infected by a virus or worm and 80% had various forms of spyware and adware programs.
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Cupertino, we have a problem Symantec has updated its anti-virus definition files after a duff update falsely identified two open source packages as adware.â¦
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I keep getting a message that says âCritical error message â Registry damaged and corrupted.â After years of using Windows, Iâve never heard of this. Is this a virus?
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Agency says Odysseus Marketing bundled bogus software with spyware; Spy Deleter charged with posing as antispyware.
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Browser beware Security experts are crying foul over a new supposedly secure browser application.â¦