Trend Micro Web Protection Add-On

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Complement your existing desktop protection (see list below) with Trend Micro Web Protection Add-On—a lightweight add-on trial solution designed to proactively protect your computer against Web threats and bot infiltration. Web Protection Add-On uses Trend Micro’s revolutionary in-the-cloud security technology to monitor outbound Web requests. This real-time protection proactively scans ...

Before Patch Tuesday, There Were Malware

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Recycling an old social engineering technique and using two different attack methods, a new spam run emerges as a threat to Web users before Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. And not because it exploits soon-to-be named vulnerabilities.What this spamming operation takes advantage of is the anticipation itself for the release of patches ...

USB malware on the rise

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Around a tenth of all malware is designed to use portable storage media, such as removable USB drives, as an attack and spread vector.Security firm ESET said that 10.3 per cent of malware detections last month were identified as files containing information on programs to be run automatically when removable ...