Hey, it happens. Sooner or later you will plug that trusty flash drive of yours into an infected terminal and boom!, you drive is infected. PC World says that “It’s scary just to plug in such a drive. Since most malicious software is OS specific, it’s a good idea to perform the file recovery on […]
PCWorld has an article that says that out of 31 Antivirus programs, only 4–ClamAV, eSafe, Kaspersky, and Symantec–reported a virus on a Storm Worm infected email attachment.
First seen in January, the Storm Worm was originally named for subject lines such as “230 dead as storm batters europe.” It created its own virtual storm with 42,000 […]
Be extra careful with those email attachments as you might be hit with the latest worm thats spreading in Europe and the U.S. Update those antivirus definitions ASAP.
According to the report, the only antivirus companies that had detected the worm were Authentium, BitDefender, clamAV, eSafe, FProt, Kaspersky, Norman, Sophos and Virusbuster. Bigger names such as […]
Speed links: Bot spreads through antivirus, Windows flaws [Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus] Solution: keep windows up-to-date, use Symantec’s updates. (My solution is to use a different antivirus: NOD32)
George Ou responds: It’s time to toss your windows antivirus software He thinks antivirus software may one day blow up your computer’s security. [ZD Net] (While he has a […]
As part of becoming familiar with ThatDamnPC, I’ve been reading the rich repository of articles published here. Last week, I read Aaron Brazell’s article, “Killing Smitfraud” and tried to download a linked zipfile mentioned.
Immediately, my NOD32 antivirus, anitspyware system flashed a large red popup warning about a possibly dangerous file. Concerned, […]
PC World is reporting on a new mass mailing worm that is affecting the Yahoo web based email as well as Yahoo Groups mailing lists.
The worm, which Symantec calls JS.Yamanner@m, is different from others in that a user merely has to open the e-mail to cause it to run, said Kevin Hogan, senior manager for […]
As reported by ComputerWorld Security.com - eEye Digital Security Inc. is reporting on a serious flaw in Symantec Corp.’s enterprise antivirus software. Researchers report the “hole” is one that hackers could use to create “a self-replicating “worm” attack against Symantec users.”
Because Symantec has not yet confirmed the existence of the problem, much less patched […]
Jon Watson, another blogger here at b5Media, commented on my post yesterday regarding Vanquish antispam. He has had some interesting experiences with Vanquish, a similar service named Spam Arrest as well as email services GMail and Runbox.
Here is an excerpt from the entry on his blog:
Vanquish has an even better system where not only […]
Are you tired of having spam slip past your anti-spam program or filters? There is a solution. An online spam filter service.
PCMag.com has just reviewed Vanquish. Vanquish doesn’t just block supposed spam, it blocks everything except the email you want. You preload your address book to start with and it then […]
F-Secure Corp. is reporting that computers infected with one of the Bagle worm varients may receive automatic updates for the worm from the infamous Bagle spam gang.
The Bagle worm enables a hacker to download other malicious programs to the infected computer which can then be sent out as spam from that computer without the owners […]
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Written by Jesse Middleton [email] for b5media.
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