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Benjamin Johnstone-Anderson, Microsoft MVP - Windows Security

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Daily Update -- Monday, November 7th, 2005
PHP worm for Linux spreads a bit...
Daily Update -- Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
A new Bagle-like worm appears, and the first KiXTart virus...
Daily Update -- Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
Announcement of new vulnerability-based worm turns out to be a goof...
Daily Update -- Thursday, October 6th, 2005
New Sober variant out there but not major, and an Internet outage sparks fears...
Daily Update -- Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
A new vulnerability for Kaspersky antivirus users, and an old Office exploit rears its ugly head...
Daily Update -- Monday, October 3rd, 2005
The return of Daily Updates brings a mixed bag of virus statistics, more Bagle nomenclature chaos, and security tips from the University of Virginia...
The Daily Update - Monday, April 26th, 2004
Bagle.Z muddles English and spreads like wildfire, BugBear adds an unexceptional 'E' variant, and CIH celebrates its wood anniversary....
The Daily Update - Sunday, April 25th, 2004
Osama bin Laden is NOT captured - it's a virus, U.S.'s crusade for high-tech surveillance, and a look at this week's top viruses...
The Daily Update - Thursday, April 22nd, 2004
Surveillance and distrust UK-style, a gamble of a spam proxy, and Blaster and MyDoom add unexceptional variants to their repertoires...
Posted: Apr 22 2004, 07:40 AM by trafton | with 4 comment(s)
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The Daily Update - Wednesday, April 21st, 2004
A flaw in the Internet's core, a somewhat clever new worm, NetSky runs out of letters, and the FTC sounds off on spyware...
The Daily Update - Tuesday, April 20th, 2004
A new NetSky outbreak, trouble in Hungary, and the British fall for the old "banking account password for a bar of chocolate" trick...
The Daily Update - Sunday, April 18th, 2004
The top viruses invading the SM inbox for the week and month so far...
Posted: Apr 18 2004, 09:29 AM by trafton | with 4 comment(s)
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The Daily Update - Saturday, April 17th, 2004
Returns and reminders, Windows Update sloth, CAN-SPAM developments, and W32.NetSky and W32.HLLW.Gaobot add more variants...
The Daily Update - Tuesday, April 13th, 2004
A look at the April security patches, problems with flooded inboxes, spammers take a gamble on stock spams, and good news/bad news about corporate security...
Posted: Apr 13 2004, 02:15 PM by trafton | with 4 comment(s)
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The Daily Update - Monday, April 12th, 2004
A quiet Easter Sunday, another reason Microsoft doesn't send patches via email, and the evolution of a CitiBank scam...
Posted: Apr 12 2004, 01:39 PM by trafton | with 4 comment(s)
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The Daily Update - Sunday, April 11th, 2004
Easter wishes, delayed sentencing for "Homeless Hacker," and tougher laws mulled for German spammers...
Posted: Apr 11 2004, 09:37 AM by trafton | with 4 comment(s)
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The Daily Update - Saturday, April 10th, 2004
A look at the worms spamming SM's inbox this week, F-Secure's comments on the MP3Concept virus, and a smattering of uninteresting new malwares...
The Daily Update - Friday, April 9th, 2004
MP3Concept marks a (unthreatening) fall from grace for OS X, NetSky terrorizes P2P sites, and another worm exploits vulnerabilities from 2003...
Posted: Apr 09 2004, 09:13 AM by trafton | with 4 comment(s)
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The Daily Update - Thursday, April 8th, 2004
BugBear.C brings Internet Explorer bugbear to light, the death of the Witty worm, and reports of Mozilla spyware...
Posted: Apr 09 2004, 07:35 AM by trafton | with 5 comment(s)
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The Daily Update - Wednesday, April 7th, 2004
BugBear.C packs unpatched punch, Gaobot.WO uses long-patched vulnerabilities, and more W32.NetSky and W32.Bagle variants...
Posted: Apr 09 2004, 07:34 AM by trafton | with 4 comment(s)
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