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November 17, 2009 My Scareware Night!
Here’s an interesting article from Larry Dignan, one of the editors at ZDNet. Apparently his computer was overtaken by Antivirus Pro 2009 – a vicious piece of malware. It takes over your computer, hijacks Internet Explorer and inundates you with porn popups forcing you to register the software. Larry had McAfee AV installed on his [...]
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November 16, 2009 Security Incidents Cost $17.2 billion per Year
Last year midsized companies spent a total of $17.2 billion fixing IT security incidents according to new research out this week from McAfee. McAfee recently had MSI International surveyed 900 companies with between 51 and 1,000 employees to find that in the past year a single midsized organization lost $43,000 on average due to security [...]
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September 28, 2009 IRS Spam drains millions daily from victims
A recent spam campaign that pretends to be from the IRS is playing on people’s fear of the tax man to propagate malware. The email has a subject line that reads, “Notice of Underreported Income” and requires the victim to either install the Trojan attachment or click on a Web link in order to view [...]
Tags: AE, Anti-Executable, Anti-Virus, AV, Deep Freeze, email, Malware, spam, Trojan, white list, whitelisting
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June 19, 2009 MS “Free” AV to release beta next week
MS announced that it’s new “Free” Anti-virus software will be released in beta next week. To be named Microsoft Security Essentials, MSE is the descendant of “One Care”. The beta will be limited to 75k downloads and its target is global. Interestingly enough they are actually targetting Brazil and China – both are large vectors [...]
Tags: AE, Anti-Virus, AV, DFE, Malware
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