Expect these scams to circulate not only through social media, but through email and normal search engines. Be cautious when you see anything offered for free, especially if it’s a new product. If something sounds too good to be true, it most likely is.

It is horrible that hackers would try to profit from the death of an innocent woman. She definitely didn’t deserve this, but why are so many people drawn to see such horrible footage? Perhaps the malicious hackers thought they were targeting people who wanted to see a gruesome video and deserved something to happen to them. Be sure to go to established news sites if you want to get information on events.

A research study shows exactly what CEO’s perceptions of threats are.

• 82% reported their organization had suffered a breach
• 50% reported attacks occur on a daily or hourly basis
• 48% believe their organizations are rarely attacked
• 68% consider the CIO responsible for information security
• 24% of other C-level executives consider the CIO responsible for information security
• 64% of executives believe their organizations will be breached in the next 12 months

Internet security should be a top priority. Organized crime is on the rise, as we saw with the discovery of 75,000 corporate computers worldwide hacked by the Kneber BotNet. Social networks and applications being hosted as services online are opportunities for hackers to attack. Internet security is a global concern, as the number of websites tampered exceeded 42,000 in 2009. 50% of CEOs reporting attacks are occurring on a daily or hourly basis is something to be concerned about.

With this particular botnet, analysts believe hackers aren’t interested in money, but they have built a secret underground network to rent out or sell stolen personal information to cybercrooks. This botnet is gathering logins for financial systems, social networking, and email and reporting it back to the criminal. Social networking sites can easily be used to spread malware, as Facebook and Yahoo accounts have been hacked the most. Investigations report 68,000 corporate logins were compromised. These criminals have also poisoned search results. If you search for “Kneber BotNet removal” you will likely get results that will contain fake anti-virus software.

Several large companies like Paramount Pictures have been attacked. It is becoming easier to become a cybercriminal as tools for creating these malicious infections are becoming available on the underground economy. Corporations should monitor outgoing traffic. Stay up to date on security software and you will be protected. The Tizer Secure™ behavioral scan will search for unusual botnet behavior. Download the free 14-day trial.

Tizer™ UnLocker is a powerful tool that gives you control over locked files and folders that may be in use by an application. If you are faced with a situation where you want to use, delete, move, or rename a file and get an error message that you can’t, UnLocker is your solution. The advantage it has over similar products is that it allows the user to kill or unlock multiple processes, as well as delete, rename, and move files. It also does not require you to reboot your system after deleting a file like other freeware does. Click here for more details or to download this free useful tool. Tizer™ UnLocker has already been awarded 5/5 stars by soft82.com.

Tizer™ SysScan generates a report for you after it scans your system files, processes, DLLs, and registry. It shows you both legitimate software and unwanted malware and if you are not an expert you may save the log to ask for technical advice on a forum. You also have the option to send your log to the Tizer™ Secure support team for a free analysis. Tizer™ SysScan has a strong advantage over similar tools because it will display hidden processes, modules, drivers, and registry entries while others don’t. Click here for more details or to download.

Tizer™ Rootkit Razor will detect malicious rootkits on your computer through multiple methodologies. It will detect and remove them without damaging your system. Stop rootkits from altering files, changing processes, or stealing your personal information. Take advantage of our advanced rootkit detection technology and find out more details here. It is currently the only anti-rootkit application compatible with the most common Windows operating systems.

At the very minimum, an ISP should help educate their users on protection from malware and look at offering proactive security to their customer base to make their network safer. If you do not have your computer protected and are looking for comprehensive protection from malware, download the free 14-day trial of Tizer Secure™ and you will be pleased.

Three people were suspected of running the hacker website, the Black Hawk Safety Net, which recruited more than 12,000 paying subscribers and collected more than $1 million in membership fees. The China Daily newspaper said users would pay about 200 yuan ($14-$29) for these malicious lessons. They also sold Trojan software, allowing others to access a computer remotely. Hackers seized control of online accounts for their own entertainment and hacked into bank accounts. Police took nine servers, five computers, a car, and shut down all sites involved. They also froze $250,000 in assets.

Authorities had investigated the website after a cyber attack back in 2007 and realized some of these suspects arrested were members of Black Hawk Safety Net. Reports from China state that hackers caused 7.6 billion yuan ($1 billion) in losses within the last year and tampered with more than 42,000 websites. Google is reviewing all operations in China.

For example:
1. A hidden process may indirectly run another process without the user knowing.
2. A hidden port, or a “back door,” may transfer some vulnerable data into your system or transfer some private data such as login information out of your system.
3. A hidden module loaded in a legitimate process may alter the normal behavior of that particular process.
4. Some hidden registry entries may be placed so that a virus/rootkit will start up automatically.

Rootkits alter files, change processes, and distribute spam. These can be attached to a trojan, file, graphic on the web, or spam email and they can tamper with computer files and processes that you cannot even see in the task manager. Only download software from trusted websites, delete spam without opening it, and avoid clicking on banners. Detecting a rootkit that has already infected your computer is easier than you think. Tizer Secure™ offers you protection to allow you to detect these hidden rootkits and easily remove them. Download the free Tizer™ Rootkit Razor removal tool at http://tizersecure.com/rootkitdownload.php. Clean and remove malicious objects that are on your computer today.

Polymorphic Virus Scan

A polymorphic virus makes slight changes in its code in order to spread itself, undetected, on a user’s machine. The newly copied virus with its brand new code evades traditional security software because it’s not in its database of malware signatures.

Tizer Secure™ completely scans a user’s PC for confirmed virus threats in the database and suspect virus threats that match our heuristic and behavioral algorithm. It then takes the code from each of those confirmed and suspect threats and, chunk by chunk, compares it to the other files and processes on the computer. If a close match is found, Tizer Secure™ classifies the match as a new suspect threat.

UPX Packing Recognition

Most of today’s viruses pack themselves within a protective shield that gets executed in much the same way that a legitimate software application is packed inside an EXE file. Windows PC users don’t know that the real virus is hiding inside the pack until it’s already executed.

Many antivirus software applications cannot read a virus within a UPX packing system. Tizer Secure™, however, opens the package and checks to see if there is a virus inside before it’s executed.

Site Block

In addition to adding about 50,000 malicious sites to the blocked sites list, the Tizer Secure’s™ site blocker list works across all browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and more.

Process Monitor Messages

Instead of prompting the user to take action when a process needs to be stopped, Tizer Secure™ added a process driver that includes an artificial intelligence that takes the action for you without prompting you or giving you a warning message every time a process has to be stopped.

Conficker Protection

The Conficker worm exploits a vulnerability in the Windows Server Service to replicate. It then travels through the network looking for other machines with the same vulnerability to infect next. Conficker also copies itself onto USB devices, such as memory sticks and MP3 players that plug into infected PCs. Thus, the worm spreads to the next PC through the infected USB device.

We have successfully added Conficker protection technology to Tizer Secure™. This protection uses the heuristic and behavioral analysis to detect all variants of the Conficker Worm and Conficker-type malware. It then uses a driver-based tool to remove these variants.

Rootkit Protection

Since rootkits are increasingly being used by cyber-criminals to get into computer systems and steal private information, our developers have beefed up Tizer Secure’s™ rootkit protection. By tracking rootkits through the processes they hide, Tizer Secure™ can more accurately expose them. Also, seeing these hidden processes makes it easier to remove rootkits without destabilizing the user’s system.

Malware Deletion without Restart

Many antivirus applications require a complete system restart in order to remove any virus that is hidden or shared in the memory of the system. Tizer Secure™ has added a technology that can now delete any virus—even if it is hidden or shared in the memory and cannot be deleted in its normal form—without the need to restart the machine.

Enhanced Database

Through user’s reports and research from our development team, Tizer Secure™ has added more than 65,000 new malware signatures to its ever-growing database over the past month.

Improved Detection Quality in Scans

Tizer Secure™ has improved the detection quality of its heuristics and behavioral scans. While Tizer Secure™ does not include operating system files in its scan results, our scan will be able to detect if an attacker has mislabeled a malicious file as an operating system file or as a fictitious or well-known brand name. These impersonator files will be deleted.

Application Hardening

Our developers have also added a new driver that provides application hardening protection to keep viruses from deleting or infecting the Tizer Secure™ registry keys and binaries on the PC. No process will be able to close or delete any of the Tizer Secure™ files, except for Tizer itself.

After years of research and development, months of beta testing, and then even more product improvements and updates followed by even more testing and the filing of two technology patent applications, we’re finally ready to put Tizer Secure™ on the market for consumer use. Our good friends and affiliate program managers at Andy Rodriguez Consulting will help us with our official launch.

Joy Valentine, Vice President of X-Wire Technology, and John Moore, Marketing Communications Manager, discuss Tizer Secure™ at Affiliate Summit East in New York in August 2009. (Photo courtesy of Affiliate Summit.)

We met Andy and his team when we participated as a vendor at the Affiliate Summit East 2009 this past August 9-11 in New York City. While there we met a lot of interesting affiliate marketers and affiliate marketing-related companies and we learned a lot about affiliate marketing.

In fact, we learned enough to know that we should let the experts handle our affiliate marketing program. That’s where Andy Rodriguez comes in. We are now a member of the ARC Family of Merchants and offer a host of benefits of joining the Tizer Secure™ Affiliate Program. We have also chosen one of the most trusted and fast growing affiliate networks – ShareASale to launch our product. Go Tizer!

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