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Microsoft's free antivirus program, Security Essentials, became available for download from the company's website Tuesday. Microsoft bills the software as providing "high-quality protection" against viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware...
A group of prominent Canadian researchers has launched an initiative to examine how closely companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo follow their own principles regarding freedom of expression and privacy. Citizen Lab, which runs out of the University...
Microsoft is trying to lure Canadians to upgrade to its newest operating system by offering a half-price discount to people who pre-order. Windows 7 won't be released until Oct. 22, but Microsoft is taking pre-orders starting Friday, the company said...
The Conficker worm has begun to update the machines it has infected with a new set of instructions to spread to other machines and then self-destruct, security experts say. Security researchers tracking the worm said some of the infected computers began...
A lawsuit claiming people were fleeced by the way Microsoft Corp. advertised some Windows XP computers as capable of running the new Vista operating system is no longer a class action, a federal judge has ruled. The lawsuit, certified last February as...
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2009/02/12/conficker-activity-update.aspx
Microsoft Corp. is giving Windows XP yet another reprieve, this time allowing custom PC builders to continue to order the older operating system for their computers until the end of May. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/22/windows-xp.html
New definitions: ==================== XLGPrivacyControlCenter Win32.Backdoor.Dreamy Win32.Trojan.Emo Win32.Trojan.Feutel Win32.Trojan.Jakuz Win32.Trojan.Renpwl Win32.Trojan.Virtl Win32.Trojan.Worldonline Win32.TrojanDownloader.JKFQ Win32.TrojanDownloader...
More transparency, better protection Microsoft has announced plans to share additional details about security vulnerabilities in its products in an attempt to prevent attackers from exploiting them before patches are released to its customers. Under one...
2008-09-03 Keylogger + Ardamax ++ Win32.KeyLogger.ap Malware ++ 1ClickPCFix + ErrorSafe + Fraud.AntiMalwares ++ Fraud.AntiSpyXP ++ Fraud.Antivirus ++ Fraud.XPAntivirus.gen + Power-Antivirus-2009 + Smitfraud-C.bs ++ Smitfraud-C.ul ++ Virantix (7) ++ WinReanimator...
Chrome recruits Maximilian von Hapsburg Our shock revelation yesterday that Google had redrawn the map of Europe to apparently cede several European nations to a Greater Germany provoked a flurry of comments suggesting what on God's Green Earth the...
The number of compromised zombie PCs in botnet networks has quadrupled over the last three months, according to figures from the Shadowserver Foundation. Shadowserver tracks botnet activity and the number of command and control servers. It uses a variety...
They've been a feature of keyboards since at least 1981, but late last month, the "Page Up" and "Page Down" keys became partly the intellectual property of Microsoft Corp. A patent issued Aug. 19 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark...
http://www.lavasoft.com/support/securitycenter/blog/ http://www.lavasoft.com/single/mirror_download.php?f=948DEWk12 http://download.lavasoft.com/public/defs.zip
0117.0000 is now available, new definition file for Ad-Aware 2008. New definitions: ==================== Adware.Jumpgate AdwareDeluxe SpywarePreventer Win32.Backdoor.Arin Win32.Backdoor.Shodabot Win32.FakeAlert.Wimad Win32.Monitor.AdvancedSpy Win32.Trojan...
The next version of Microsoft Corp.'s web browser makes it easier for people to surf the internet without leaving a trace. Companies that sell advertisements online — including Microsoft — can electronically gather tidbits about web surfers'...
It's easy. Those tubes are busted More evidence that the intertubes are fundamentally broken has been served up by Wired.com in an article laying out a technique to surreptitiously hijack huge chunks of the internet and monitor or even modify unencrypted...
2008-08-27 Adware ++ BannerStyles.Optimizer ++ RXToolbar + SmartShopper + Zango + Zango.ShoppingReport ++ MorpheusToolbar Hijacker ++ CoolWWWSearch.Aff.Madfinder Keylogger + Ardamax Malware ++ Fakealert.gen + Fraud.XPAntivirus + Fraud.Antivirus2008 +...
Brief Description A security issue has been identified in the way Vector Markup Language (VML) is handled that could allow an attacker to compromise a computer running Microsoft Windows and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing...
http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/T/TEC_INTERNET_THREATS?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-07-28-21-46-01
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