Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Virus writers have unleashed the first program that infects 64-bit Windows files, antivirus firm Symantec said Monday.
The virus, dubbed W64.Shruggle by Symantec, seems mainly to be an experiment to test the concept of a 64-bit infecter and is not actively spread, said Alfred Huger, senior director of security ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A very nasty trend is developing in the world of malware. At risk is your credit card number, social security number and, indeed, your entire identity.
Criminals are distributing spam emails which purport to link to details of a fictitious credit card order. If someone clicks that link and is running ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Computer viruses spread by e-mail are growing more sophisticated as virus writers and spammers are thought to be joining forces in an effort to make smarter bugs, a computer security group said Tuesday.
New York-based MessageLabs, which scans client e-mails for viruses to block, said it picked apart some ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Some say Win XP SP2 enhancements cause conflicts, don't protect as claimed.
Security experts and vendors this week welcomed the introduction of Windows Firewall, part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), as a valuable way of protecting PCs. But while the firewall is an improvement, it falls short of the ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Newsday is running a piece on bogus spyware applications that mimic successful free applications (like Spybot and AdAware), but either don't work, or worse: install spyware themselves. The article quotes Eric Howes, a BBR security forum regular, who maintains a list of 75 such suspect products, with more being added ...
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