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  • New: McAfee Online Support Community

    The old McAfee forums have been changed into the Online Support Community. This new community has areas for Enterprise users, home and home office users as well as Security Awarness and Community Help. Discussions, blogs, wikis, profiles and polls. And best thing... you can now even talk with real McAfee...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Sat, Nov 7 2009
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  • McAfee's spam report for July

    Today McAfee published its spam report for the month of July with the top 15 spam subject lines by domain. For instance for the .COM domain it gives you this: Hello Hi RE: DISCOUNT 80% 0FF on Pfizer ! Replica Watches Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender For more information and other Top 15 subject lines...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Mon, Jul 6 2009
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  • McAfee's Security Journal

    Two weeks ago McAfee released their 5th issue of the McAfee Security Journal, formerly known as "Sage". In this issue it's about social engineering techniques. You can download your copy here . Related links: McAfee Avert Labs Blog
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Wed, Oct 29 2008
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  • Olympic attachment?

    Not only the Olympic games have started, but also the malware games related to the Olympics. One of the latest is that if you receive an attachment named as: "ioc_guidelines_for_persons_accredited_at_the_xxix_olympiad.pdf" then delete this immediately. If you open it then it could execute a...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Fri, Aug 8 2008
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  • McAfee's 5300 Scan Engine Released

    Few days ago McAfee released a new version of their VirusScan Scan Engine. So far only for corporate versions like VSE8.0i and/or VSE8.5i . You can download it from the McAfee Enterprise download site.
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Fri, Aug 1 2008
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  • Let The (malware) Games Begin...

    Few days ago the McAfee Avert Labs received an email with a executable flash movie. The attachment was called: "RaceForTibet.exe", which eventually seems to be a keylogger program. Even a log file is being send to a provider in China. Just want to warn you: never open or run a file that you...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Tue, Apr 15 2008
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  • McAfee, Inc. Launches Global S.P.A.M. Experiment

    McAfee , Inc. today announced the launch of its global S.P.A.M. (Spammed Persistently All Month) Experiment. For the month of April, participants from around the world - ranging from homemakers, government executives, and students to retirees - will surf the Web, make online purchases and register for...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Wed, Apr 2 2008
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  • Mass Hack Attack

    Really cool video at the McAfee's Avert Labs blog site about the latest mass hack attack at phpBB web sites. See how it looks like from an end user's perspective: Mass Hack Attack . Source: McAfee Avert Labs Blog .
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Fri, Mar 14 2008
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  • WinCE/InfoJack - Trojan disables Windows Mobile Application Installation Security

    From: McAfee Avert Labs Blog "A Window Mobile PocketPC trojan that disables Windows Mobile application installation security has been discovered in China. WinCE/InfoJack sends the infected device’s serial number, operating system and other information to the author of the trojan. It also leaves...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Wed, Feb 27 2008
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  • Latest antivirus test results

    McAfee not doing so well, Microsoft doing okay. Check out Alex Eckelberry , from Sunbelt, blog with the latest results from Andreas Marx of Av-Test.org . Links to PDF files with the results in the article.
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Wed, Jan 23 2008
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  • McAfee Trojan Redirect Issue

    Some McAfee customers are redirected to a non-McAfee website or receive an error or blank page when attempting to download or update McAfee software Summary: on 12/27/07, McAfee learned that a new variant of the DNSChanger Trojan has been released and is infecting computers. This Trojan, which has yet...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Fri, Dec 28 2007
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  • Remembering Judi/Tigg

    Yesterday I received an email telling that Judi, aka "Tigg" passed away at 10:30AM EDT. Judi was a wonderful person, a very good moderator at the McAfee Support Forums , always trying to help the McAfee customers and the McAfee technicians. And sometimes, when we, the moderators, needed it...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Fri, Dec 28 2007
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  • McAfee Scan Engine 5200

    A new McAfee Scan Engine is available for elective download at McAfee's Security Updates web site. The McAfee update site will be updated to the 5200 Engine on September 5, 2007. Related documents: Upcoming new elective download package and AutoUpdate package for the 5200 Engine Expected results...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Sat, Aug 4 2007
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  • New kid on the blo(g)ck...

    McAfee's new CEO, David DeWalt, in his first blog, The New Guy , at McAfee's Security Insights Blog . Hope to see more of him there and maybe he'll find some time to visit the McAfee Support Forums one day...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Fri, Apr 6 2007
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  • McAfee's PodCast: AudiParasitics

    A new service from McAfee Avert Labs as they launched their official PodCast site - AudioParasitics hosted by David Marcus and Jim Walter. One day they might talk about disclosure, the other day about zero-day trends or about new rootkit functionality. AudioParasitics will be there to beat that issue...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Sun, Mar 4 2007
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  • Do McAfee Consumer Products Support Vista? Yes and No!

    Even though McAfee says it's Vista ready it's actually not ready too. If you look at the "System Requirements" for their 3 in 1 Protection suite then it only says: Microsoft® Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP, Windows VISTA There are customers who have been able to install previous versions of...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Fri, Feb 16 2007
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  • McAfee SiteAdvisor Technology Honored at RSA2007

    At RSA2007 McAfee was honered for their SiteAdvisor technology by the U.S. Department of Commerce with its “Recognition of Excellence in Innovation” honor. The award was presented by the Honorable Robert Cresanti, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology, for the technology’s innovative approach...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Tue, Feb 13 2007
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  • Ask for t-shirts with McAfee logo

    This marks the first year that Avert Labs has a direct presense at RSA. We will be running some very cool demos at the McAfee booth and answering questions about our research happenings. Some of the demos include password-stealing trojans, a botnet in action, and the coolest drive-by rootkit installation...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Wed, Feb 7 2007
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  • Island-Hopping Spammers

    McAfee announced that its anti-spam researchers have been tracking a new trend nicknamed "spam island-hopping," in which island-hopping spammers use the domain names of small islands as Web site links in spam campaigns to disguise themselves from spam filters that traditionally catch more well...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Mon, Nov 6 2006
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  • McAfee fixes ePolicy Orchestrator and ProtectionPilot

    McAfee released two updates for ePolicy Orchestrator and ProtectionPilot. The software affected are: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.5.0 Patch 5 and earlier McAfee ProtectionPilot 1.1.1 Patch 2 and earlier An attacker would be able to remotely execute arbitrary code on the machine running the indicated...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Wed, Oct 4 2006
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