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 ...
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 Researchers have discovered what is believed to be the first in-the-wild rootkit that targets BIOS, the built-in software responsible for booting up a computer and managing communication between the machine and its attached devices.The discovery of Mebromi is notable not because any widespread infections are anticipated – the complexity of ...
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011 Hackers are using a new trick to cloak malicious files by disguising their Windows file extensions to make them appear safe to download, a Czech security company warned today.The exploit, dubbed "Unitrix" by Avast Software, abuses Unicode for right-to-left languages -- such as Arabic or Hebrew -- to mask Windows ...
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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.
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Monday, January 25th, 2010 Named Win32.Worm.Zimuse.A, this new nasty claims to be an IQ Test but is really a worm that will create about 7-11 copies of itself and store them in critical areas of your Windows system and then destroy the first 50KB of the Master Boot Record (MBR) after X number of ...
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