Adam software is a global software vendor of marketing platform technologies that provide the ability to manage, structure and deliver. A new unique product runs antivirus and antispyware scanengines provided by avg technologies cz s. The setup package generally installs about 18 files and is usually about 18. Scholars like lassiter, kevin kruse, robert self, and thomas sugrue, who work in the fields of urban and suburban studies, have given us some of the most. See others named adam thomas learn the skills adam has.
Sunbelt software develops windowsbased applications to protect against viruses, spam, and spyware. Tech support scams are an industrywide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. Contact gfi software for support and information companies selling similar products. Security firm sunbelt software said the vulnerability was being actively exploited on some porn websites. Adam pillay senior managing director greystar leadership team. Adam thomas new york, new york professional profile linkedin.
A new microsoft internet explorer exploit has been found in the wild by sunbelt software security researchers. Just about any search term you can think of can be found in these pages. The company was originally founded in 1994 as sunbelt software, which was acquired in 2010 by gfi software. On tuesday, sunbelt researcher adam thomas followed up. Google search results delivering massive malware attacks. Before becoming vipre, they distributed products as threattrack security. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover adams connections. Counterspy scans a pc for spyware, examining files on the hard drive, objects in memory, the windows registry and cookies and it has a capability called dnr do not resuscitate that, according to sunbelt, improves the chances of killing off resuscitators. According to sunbelt software, an antispyware and security company based in clearwater, fla. This screenshot courtesy of sunbelt shows an example of the malware sites sunbelts post has a bunch of other examples. North bay, on p1a 1l9 canada for sales and technical support, call 19038817005. Sunbelt industrial collaborates with clients to improve infrastructure by combining our awardwinning specialty construction, repair and maintenance services with our industry proven safety program. Pc world claims that it detects 93% of all spyware. On tuesday, sunbelt researcher adam thomas followed up with another post.
Spam exploiting western union brand downloads trojan. Pandex has attracted very little attention from the media and generated. Lance james of secure science and adam thomas of sunbelt software speculate that the companys troubles may have left them vulnerable. Adam business software for windows is a powerful integrated enterprise solution for wholesale distributors designed to help you provide superior customer service, effective inventory. Led the direction of five software products, determining installation. Google expunges malware sites from search results infoworld. How to defend against vml zeroday ie exploit zdnet. So far weve found 27 different domains, each with up to 1,499 malicious pages. Our web pages offer product descriptions, free demonstrations, sales information and technical support.
Get everything you need to tuneup, repair and protect your computers with system suite 9 professional. The team at sunbelt cws is here to help you build and grow your businesses in any stage of development. Despite this growth, however, the sun belt did experience its share of problems in the 1980s and 1990s. For example, the regions economic prosperity has been uneven and at one point 23 out of the 25 largest metropolitan regions with the lowest per capita incomes in the u. Industries collaboration, enterprise software, marketing, software headquarters regions european union eu. View adam thomas profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Researcher adam thomas uncovered the exploit which revolves around the way that the internet explorer browser handles a particular form of graphics known as vector graphics. College web site also appears to have been hacked, thomas said. Sunbelt software is a provider of windows security and management software with product solutions in the areas of antispam software, antivirus software, antispyware software, and vulnerability assessment.
You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a microsoft agent or microsoft employee and that the phone number is an official microsoft global customer service number. When im not working on product, you can find me reading, writing, and. Subverted search sites lead to massive malware attack in progress trojans, rootkits, password stealers hit users who click on a bad link after a search. Gfi software acquires sunbelt software, mainly for its vipre technology 10 years security software company gfi software this morning announced that it has acquired sunbelt software. Leading products include the counterspy and vipre product lines, ninja email security, and endpoint firewall technologies. The vipre portfolio now encompasses endpoint security, with heritage from original. Malware researcher, adam thomas, for sunbelt software, said that the email attachment that pretends to be the transfer document actually loads a keylogger program onto the endusers system to gather personal information, like usernames and passwords, after which, the malware transmits that data to a thirdparty site. Founded in 1994, sunbelt software is a provider of security software. Counterspy is a software program developed by sunbelt software. Sunbelt researcher adam thomas happened upon the attack when he ran a search of netgear prosafe ddwrt for router firmware. Gfi software acquires sunbelt software, mainly for its. Im a product person and i help companies make more efficient software product teams.
We have specialized in helping distributors just like you since 1988. Net utility for adamapax series works with os support. Most recently, adam thomas, an analyst from sunbelt software in clearwater, fla. In 2010, the company announced it was acquired by gfi software. Sunbelt has been providing quality plb language solutions since 1980. Counterspy is a proprietary spyware removal program for microsoft windows software developed by sunbelt software features. System suite is the ultimate system repair utility for your computers. This allows us to help our customers to implement and deploy robust data acquisition and statistical software solutions, that will help improve the quality and. Sunbelt malware researcher adam thomas said his spot. They look gone to us, said alex eckelberry, the ceo of sunbelt software distribution inc.
A blog about activities, products and ideas at gfi, one of the leading developers of security software to protect against spyware, spam and other threats. One site that thomas encountered tried to install more than 25 separate pieces of malware, including numerous trojan horses, a spam bot, a fullblown rootkit, and a pair of password stealers. This is huge, said alex eckelberry, sunbelt softwares ceo. Sunbelt software has uncovered tens of thousands of individual pages that have been meticulously created with the goal of obtaining high search engine ranking. Data doctor 2010 will make you sick the legacy sunbelt software. The companys leading products include the counterspy and vipre product lines. As of 2017 it concentrates on its vipre suite and the company now uses that name. More research and digging on other phrases turned up the vast array of attack sites. The acquisition will allow us to merge vipre technology into our email security and web security solutions group, and will. Renting great equipment will be the easiest part of your job because we promise availability, reliability, and ease in terms of both our people and our products learn more. Zeus or zbot zeus bot is a malicious information stealing computer trojan. Bbc news technology browser flaw seen on porn sites.
Lance james of secure science and adam thomas of sunbelt software speculate that the companys troubles may have left them vulnerable to information. Zeus cache analysis reveals large number of compromised government computers. Microsoft internet explorer vml buffer overflow lets. Automation software such as chef and ansible i also have.
This malicious trojan has many forms, and is mostly used by financial scammers who intend to steal money from peoples and organizations bank account. Sign up for your own profile on github, the best place to host code, manage projects, and build software alongside 40 million. Advanced business software is committed to helping you improve your business. Codecs, often used in videoconferencing or streaming media, encode a stream or signal for transmission. Our researcher adam thomas came across a new piece of ransomware today, an encryption trojan via our old friends iframedollars. Sunbelt computer software note the new name 67 joseph st.
This exploit uses a buffer overflow in the ies vml code to execute code remotely. On monday, sunbelt researcher adam thomas discovered a new undocumented zeroday exploit for internet explorer that attacks ies vml. We currently offer windows and unix plb databus compilers, runtimes and utilities. After surfing to a malicious web site on our test machines, the file x. Security experts at antivirus vendor sunbelt software has detected a huge amount of information stolen by a zeus botnet. Zeus cache analysis reveals large number of compromised. Please complete the contact form and a member of our team will be in touch shortly. Adam thomas front end technical lead privitar linkedin. Lance james of secure science and adam thomas of sunbelt software speculate that the companys troubles may have left them vulnerable to information embezzlement. Adam software is in partnership with leading software companies to receive a number of benefits including instant access to technology resources and special trainings and support. His trained eye saw a suspiciouslooking result on the first page.
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