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Gina Trapani wrote up a great article on the infamous Antispyware 2009 and how to get rid of it. This software pretends to be legitimate antivirus software, but is itself a virus. There are many variants of the software and I wrote about one of them called Antivirus XP 2008. How to Remove XP AntiSpyware [...] Microsoft officially released Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) today. It is a free tool to protect your computer from malware, viruses, spyware, rootkits, and trojans. Unlike the previously released Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), MSE runs all the time and actively searches for threats. Blurb from Microsoft: Early tests show MSE to be very [...] The BBC has an article on Conficker, the virus that everyone seemed to think passed us by on April 1st. The Conficker worm has started to update infected machines with a mystery package of data. Computer security firms watching the malicious program noticed that it sprang into life late on 8 April. The activity on [...] Microsoft recently reported that their Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), which was included in Windows Updates on December 9, 2008, has now removed over 400,000 copies of the nefarious “Antivirus 2009″. An Arlington, VA client was recently infected by that Antivirus 2009 malware. It has been the most pernicious malware that I have seen recently, [...] This NY Times article talks about how a gang in a Russian town is using Microsoft administrative tools to infect private and government computers. A few excerpts: The gang was identified publicly in May by Joe Stewart, director of malware research at SecureWorks, a computer security firm in Atlanta. Mr. Stewart, who has determined that [...] |
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