Microsoft releases Sigcheck 2.0

Friday, October 25th, 2013

Sigcheck is a command-line utility that shows file version number, timestamp information, and digital signature details, including certificate chains. Version 2.0 adds integration with the VirusTotal antivirus scanner aggregation service. Sigcheck can now check the status of a file against over 40 antivirus engines and launch the associated online VirusTotal report, and ...

Chrome virus scanner coming

Sunday, January 8th, 2012

Google has released a beta version of its Chrome 17 browser that scans for malicious downloads, which may help tackle scareware threats. The browser will issue a warning to discard a file when a user attempts to download a known bad file or if the file comes from a ...

Security Essentials now detects the new “killapache.pl” script

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

MS Security Essentials is already detecting the killapache perl script that's floating around the Full Disclosure mailing list. This is one more reason that I love this AV program and strongly recommend it for all Windows' users.

KHOBE – 8.0 earthquake for Windows desktop security software

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

In September 2007, we have published an article about a great disease that affected tens of Windows security products. The article called Plague in (security) software drivers revealed awful quality of kernel mode drivers installed by all the major desktop security products for Windows. The revealed problems could cause random ...

Most security products fail to perform

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Nearly 80 percent of security products fail to perform as intended when first tested and generally require two or more cycles of testing before achieving certification, according to a new ICSA Labs report. The “ICSA Labs Product Assurance Report” - co-authored by the Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report research ...