TOKYO (MacHouse) – A few days ago, we reported an issue with Dot.Tunes‘ orange Flash ad, which we suspected of being responsible for the redirection of our visitors to Malware-Scan.Com‘s deceitful website. We were obliged to run the suspicious Flash ad so that our ad company Canep Media and others possibly including AdECN could investigate our claim. Again, if you were consistently redirected to Malware-Scan.Com’s spam site in the past, please accept our apology.






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TOKYO (MacHouse) – Depending on your geographical location and web browser you use, you may have been involuntarily redirected to malware-scan.com’s website upon arrival at our domains (mhvt.net and mhouse-j.com). If you have this experience at our websites, please accept our sincere apology.

malware-scan.com is run by a criminal organization. They have a subdirectory titled 5_swp under the subdomain of scanner2. They are affiliated with those criminal organizations embedding redirection codes into 3rd-party Flash ads.






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TOKYO (MacHouse) – We have acquired an e-mail message with a malicious content that is targeted at PayPal users. Just as always, the message starts without greetings and urges the recipient to update their account. It goes

“It has come to our attention that your paypal account informations needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website.”






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TOKYO (MacHouse) – If you have a PayPal account and have received an e-mail message with a title of Please verify your account !, you don’t have to read it. Just trash it. If you actually open it, the message may probably say “Unauthorized access to your PayPal account!,” which you should find very suspicious.






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TOKYO (MacHouse) – If you need help for the Apple products you own, Apple Discussions is a place where you can get help from fellow users. Cyber criminals occasionally manage to post spam comments. In one occasion, we saw a spam comment in which clicking on a hyperlink redirected to another website with a computer virus. Continue reading →