Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool - a program that removes malware from Windows machines - detected password-stealing software from more than 2 million PCs in the first week after it was updated.
One password stealer, called Taterf, alone was detected on 700,000 computers in the first day after the update. That's ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Criminals changed tactics in the last six months of 2007, dropping malicious email in favour of Web-based attacks, according to data reported to Microsoft by Windows users.
The company saw the number of Trojan downloader programs it removed from Windows machines jump by 300 percent, according to Jimmy Kuo, principal architect ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Symantec Security Response has developed a removal tool to clean the W32.Sobig.F@mm infections. The W32.Sobig.F@mm Removal Tool does the following: Terminates the W32.Sobig.F@mm viral processes. Deletes the W32.Sobig.F@mm files. Deletes the dropped files. Deletes the registry values that the worm added.
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f@mm.removal.tool
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