New Skype trojan

New Skype trojan : Trojan.PeskySpy



There is a new trojan horse circulating in the wild. which is called Trojan.PeskySpy as per symantec and Troj_Spayke.C to Trend micro. Its again shows the low security measures of skype by allowing the programmers to take advantage over its API. The new skype trojan is based on the code which a swiss programmer recently published under GPL licence. but he might have never expected the use of his code for creating such a malware.



The behaviour of the trojan is same as like the other trojan virus do. Be stealth in the system and steal the data.the skype trojan was designed to capture all the audio conversations of the skype users ( with all the data including time stamps,date..etc ). The malware has the ability to upload the captured file into a specific location  in the internet. moreover to this , it can bypass the firewalls also.


The trojan horse code was first released as a Proof of concept code. But still its freely available over the internet. Which will help programmers to capture ,save all the audio conversation of others in mp3 format and send to remote locations.


For every malwares, the programmer will try to add the functionality to take over the system control. here also the author of the malware tried it as much he can. the attacker can delete the trojan file from a remote location also.


How trojan installs ?


Trojan horse  is circulating as an e-mail attachment and purports to be the newest release of the company's Internet telephone software. when the users who opens the attachment, they can see a fake installation error box. this is obviously to confuse the users, as they misinterpret that the application has encountered an error. but the wise trojan is installing itself. after that it wil try to connect the IRC channels



Symantec/Norton users can update their antivirus for preventing against the malware


Goto this link for more details


http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2009-030512-2624-99

How to export the registry in windows

I dont know how many of you have heard about the windows registry. For those who doesnt know about the registry,

The windows Registry is a database that stores settings and options for MS windows. it stores the information and settings for hardware, operating system, and other softwares. Registry also saves the information about the users, their settings ..etc.Registry also manage with all the informations about performance,operation of kernel ..etc.

So how to edit and add some informations to the registry ?

Note: Before doing all the registry edit, you have to back up the registry. otherwise that will end up losing Windows itself. Please see the section "Backing up" to know how to back up registry.

Follow the steps to edit the registry

• Goto Start->Run
• Type "Regedit" (with out double quotes ) and click OK

• Now you can see the registry editor. Now select File->Export

• Now you can export the registry. the things to be remembered when exporting is that make sure that you selected the checkbox "All". also give proper name for the file. This will help you later to check why you back up the registry

Javascript classes

HI,

Here is one simple Javascript class for finding the Browser name and Browser Version. This one is a very basic class.

Here is the code for the browser class.

//Browser class
var Browser={
 name:'',
 fullname:'',
 version:'',
 Init:function(){
   this.fullname=navigator.userAgent;
   if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")>-1)
     this.name='IE';
   else if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")>-1)
     this.name='Opera';
   else if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")>-1)
     this.name='Firefox';
   else if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Chrome")>-1)
     this.name='Chrome';
   else if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari")>-1)
     this.name='Safari';
   else
     this.name=navigator.userAgent;
   this.version=this.fullname.substr(this.fullname.indexOf(this.name)+this.name.length+1,1);
  }
};

Hope this will be a good starting

Shidhin

Is your laptop's keyboard and touchpad not working ?

I have heard this issue many times. Many people had this issue. The scenario will be like this, You switch on your Laptop , after some time suddenly your keyboard and touchpad start playing with you.

They simply stopped working !!! What to do now ??

Ofcourse, you can make them understand that never play with you. in many laptops, there is an option to disable the keyboard and touchpad. those are the key combinations FN+F7 or FN+F9 in most of the laptops. so there might be the chance that you have disabled the laptop.

Press the key combinations again to enable the touchpad and keyboard.

Still problems ????

Now its high time to do the second test. Is your battery is good ?
now we need to check whether the laptop battery is the culprit. to do simply remove the battery from the laptop. now connect the power cable directly to the laptop. switch on the laptop and check whether the touchpad and keyboard are working or not.

if this time they are working , then it was the battery who was making the problems.. Its time to replace the battery.

Finally that will solve the problem

I hope this will be helpful to Many ----

Shidhin