Tag Archives: Malware
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 [...]
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