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There's a new Trojan out there that will cause annoying pop-ups and change the desktop background to entice victims to purchase their services. The new desktop background will appear like this:

The National Cyber Security Alliance, in its continued effort to promote online safety, has released a new web video, directed by filmmaker Brett Wagner.
This throwback to 1940’s classroom etiquette shows you what NOT to do online. Take a look at 'Don't Be A Billy':
The makers behind the Winiguard family never give up. They almost release a new clone application on a daily basis, and this time the rogue is named BlockProtector.

Albin
Lavasoft Malware Labs
Computer Weekly is now running its second annual IT Blog Awards 2009 contest. The Lavasoft blog has been nominated this year in the “IT Security” category.
We need your help - if we’re among your favorite security blogs, please take a moment to help us out by casting a vote for Lavasoft! Details here.
It’s an exciting day for us here at Lavasoft. And, we think it will be for gamers around the world once they get wind of this news: Lavasoft has just launched a new version of our flagship security software – a spin-off of Ad-Aware that’s aimed specifically at online gamers and entertainment fans, providing protection as you play.
October saw Ad-Aware reach another milestone in its history with the launch of Ad-Aware in Swedish!
It has long confused people that a company based in Sweden has a flagship product which doesn’t speak the company’s native tongue, but the truth be known, many in the Lavasoft family do not speak Swedish either! As a truly global company, we have around 15 nationalities represented in our headquarters, based in Gothenburg, so English has always been the company language.
A number of major news sites, right here in our very own Sweden, have been knocked offline in what’s believed to be a ‘malicious distributed denial-of-service’, or DDoS, attack.
A new wave of scam e-mails are now hitting victims around the globe. They usually appear to come from trusted friends and look like this:

Since its public release on October 22, there’s been quite a bit of talk on Windows 7, and whether or not you should upgrade now to the new operating system. And, you’ve more than likely had your fill on news on this for the time being. We have, though, received some questions in from users on our Ad-Aware software’s compatibility, so we’d like to take a moment to address this, and let you know that - yes - here at Lavasoft, we’re ready!
Two new rogue applications from the Winiguard family have been released. The people behind these fraud tools constantly change the names of their applications and move them to new servers.

We're back from our annual visit to the U.S. where we had the opportunity to meet with several of the industry's most influential IT editors and journalists. These folks are super busy, so we'd like to send another thanks to the following people who gave us the opportunity to sit and share our enthusiasm about our new Ad-Aware versions, as well as upcoming developments at Lavasoft.
It’s not easy to stay up-to-date on all of the new online threats that scammers are casting out on the Web. Just take a look at our latest ‘industry news’ listings to get an idea of the array of topics buzzing through the security news – in the past few days alone.
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