Saturday, March 8th, 2008
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1780
1. Introduction
The threat of malicious software can easily be considered as the greatest threat to Internet security. Earlier, viruses were, more or less, the only form of malware. Nowadays, the threat has grown to include network-aware worms, trojans, DDoS agents, IRC Controlled bots, spyware, and so on. The infection vectors ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Anti-virus technologies are inconsistent when it comes to identifying attacks such as worms, phishing and botnets.
That's according to a report from the University of Michigan's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and network security company Arbor Networks, antivirus products are inconsistent at best when it comes to identifying attacks such ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Some industry analysts are proclaiming the traditional antivirus method for detecting and eradicating viruses, trojans, spyware and other baneful code by matching it against a signature to be "dead."
They say signature-based checking can't keep up with the flood of virus variants manufactured by a criminal underworld that is beating the ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
If it looks like spyware, acts like spyware, and transmits information like spyware--it's practically spyware, say some antispyware makers of the antipiracy features in Microsoft's controversial Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program.
Other antispyware firms aren't so concerned. "Microsoft has every right to protect itself from piracy," says J.J. Schoch, director of ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Does your antispyware software really work? With security experts warning of "rogue" antispyware products that sometimes do more harm than good, two security researchers have decided to take matters into their own hands.
They're working on a new software product, called Spycar, that will test the effectiveness of antispyware applications. "We ...
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