Do you got Wordpress as blogging or CMS (Content Management System) as we do and would like to be sure that your installation is secure?

Wordpress itself is extremely safe and not like for example phpBB full of security holes that can be exploited by hackers, but sometimes even the sun got “spots”. Since Wordpress is so popular and used on so many blogs hackers tend to abuse vulnerabilities as soon as they are known. Therefore it’s good to add a layer of extra security with a nice plugin called simply just AntiVirus.

This plugin is easy to use, just upload to your server activate and start scanning for security issues . Their web site says it all:

AntiVirus for WordPress monitors malicious injections and warns you of any possible attacks.

You can set the plugin to do daily scans of your blog to see if you got any issues you need to correct.

More information on this plugin can be found at their web site wpantivirus.com. There you can also download the plugin.

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The virus attacks the computers by older versions of Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash. When a computer has been infected the Google search engine is then affected, whose results quietly redirects to sites that then steal information from your own computer. The aim is to obtain information, for example bank accounts and credit card numbers.

Gumblar can get into your computer through web sites without the owner noticing.

Although the virus has been known for a while, its activity increased during the past week. It was identified first with a URL in China, but has developed a new technology to evade detection. The updated version also attack more effectively Google users to circumvent Google’s black list of suspected sites.

When Gumblar became publicly known last week was about 800 sites affected. This week, reports security company Scan Safe to over 3 000 sites are affected, writes PC for all.

One way to protect yourself is to have the latest versions of Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader and Windows Update.

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Microsoft confirmed yesterday that there is a bug in the company’s web server IIS 6. According to the Microsoft security risk is minimal since it requires that the server is configured in a special way for the security hole to be exploited.

In a security bulletin that Microsoft released yesterday shows examples of the type of configuration that is at risk. The company is working on developing an update that plugs the security hole. The problem affects version 5, 5.1 and 6.0 of IIS. IIS 7 and later are not affected.

According to Eric Schultze at Shavlik security company so they can using any of the affected versions are easy to fix the safety problem itself by install two freeware available to download from Microsoft. The two programs are the IIS Lock Down Tool and the URLScan Tool.

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As always spammers take advatage of big events to make people interested in the emails they get. And as alwasy spammers have already started sending out fake emails about the Swine Flue.

McAfee is reporting about spam emails trying to use Swine Flue to sell pills. If you follow the links in any of the emails mentioned you end up at web sites trying to infect your computer with maleware, so you really shouldn’t trust any such emails.

The spam emails Trend Micro is reporting about only contains information about the Swine Flue in the subject line, in the rest of the spam email the reader gets information about penis enlagrement pills. I’m not exactly sure about the connection between flue and the size of your penis, but I’m pretty sure they have nothing to do with each other

Remember, if you need credible information on swine flu, go directly to the World Health Organization’s website instead of trying to follow links in emails from unknown people.

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Finnish F-Secure is recommending people to stop using Adobe Reader due to
all security vulnerability in that software lately.

This year over 47% of all direct attacks have been using security problems
in Adobes softwares according to Mikko Hyppönen from F-Secure. His advice
is to completely stop using Adobe Reader and instead switch to some other
reader. There are plenty of free PDF readers at www.pdfreaders.org, a
website listing free PDF readers. If everyone is using different PDF
readers it’s much more difficult to do direct attacks against security
vulnerabilities in just one of the readers.

Last month Adobe secured a vulnerability that had been used by attackers
for several months, and Hyppönen is saying that Adobe must increase their
focus on security issues.

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