Neowin News Feed for: Hijacks

Windows weakness can lead to network traffic hijacks

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:56:07 +0000

At the ShmooCon hacker conference, researchers with security firm IOActive claimed a design bug in the system used by Windows PCs to obtain proxy settings could let attackers hijack traffic. Internet Explorer on Windows PCs... Read more...

New Worm Hijacks Webcams

Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:58:38 +0000

Lately all the new viruses/worms end up causing the same problems for computer users. The malicious code either ties up your network, or even worse infect/delete important files. Unlike other worms Rbot.gr has... Read more...

Trojan Hijacks PCs to Peddle Porn

Sun, 13 Jul 2003 11:04:01 +0000

Thanks Mr. Black and QuickReply for the heads up on this one. Spammers based in Russia are using stealth and a sophisticated new Trojan horse program to turn home workstations into unwitting hosts in a... Read more...

Sneaky Toolbar Hijacks Browsers

Fri, 31 Jan 2003 18:54:41 +0000

Xupiter is an Internet Explorer toolbar program. Once active in a system, it periodically changes users' designated homepages to xupiter.com, redirects all searches to Xupiter's site, and blocks any attempts to restore the original browser... Read more...