Microsoft Anti-Spyware Deleting Norton Anti-Virus
Microsoft's Anti-Spyware program is causing troubles for people who also use Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus software; apparently, a recent update to Microsoft's anti-spyware application flags Norton as a password-stealing program and prompts users to remove it.
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12.2.2006 Allchin says to use anti-virus with Vista after all
Ever since Microsoft Vista chief Jim Allchin talked about his son not using anti-virus in a recent teleconference with journalists, the world has been abuzz with claims Vista won’t need AV software. Now Jim Allchin has clarified his statements on the official Windows Vista Blog.
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12.11.2006 AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.463a1000d
AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool.
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22.4.2007 Best 64-bit Windows Vista Anti-Virus
Windows Vista comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. Unlike Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, which is the last server operating system from the Redmond company, the 32-bit client platform will live long after Windows Vista.
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2.8.2007 Free Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Internet Security RC1
Kaspersky is making headway with the development of its latest iteration of antivirus products. Both Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Kaspersky Internet Security have reached Release Candidate stage, which means that the RTM is on the horizon.
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31.3.2008 Microsofts XP SP3 Patch Fixes Anti-Virus Glitch
Microsoft issued a hotfix for Windows XP Service Pack 3 last week that it says "could resolve" a Windows registry corruption problem associated with third-party security software.
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2.7.2008 Virus Disguised as IE 7 Download
Watch out for e-mails with a new virus disguised as a test version of Microsoft's current Web browser.
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31.3.2007 Super Bowl Virus Spreads
The game's over and patches are available, but many sites are infected with malicious code.
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8.2.2007 Google Adds Virus Scanning to Gmail
Google on Wednesday silently added a new feature to its Gmail service: virus scanning. The company will now check all incoming and outgoing e-mail attachments to keep users' inboxes safe. By scanning outbound attachments, Google can also keep viruses from proliferating by way of Gmail.
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1.12.2005 New virus threatens Linux and Windows PCs
Hackers have released code for a cross-platform virus that could infect Linux and Windows computers.
The virus, which has been given the names Virus.Linux.Bi.a/ Virus.Win32.Bi.a, was reported at the end of last week by security firm Kaspersky Lab. Researchers worry that the malicious code may be part of a disturbing new trend of viruses that can run on Windows, as well as other operating systems that have been largely ignored by hackers.
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10.4.2006 Microsoft OneCare fails virus test
Independent security certification body Virus Bulletin tested 15 security suites on Windows Vista against a set of malware from the WildList database.
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6.2.2007 Vista attacked by 13-year-old virus
A batch of laptops pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium was found to have been infected with a 13-year-old boot sector virus. Thanks to odeeee for this news.
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17.9.2007 Bizarre Virus Threatens to Kill File-Sharers
A strange virus which taunts file-sharers and threatens to report them to the police and even kill them, is being distributed on the Winny network.
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2.3.2007 Free Avira AntiVir Rescue System CD to Clean Unremovable Virus
Previously I’ve written about Kaspersky offering free Rescue Disk to clean virus without booting in to Windows.
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28.6.2008 Anti Rootkits AIO
odeeee report this Anti-Rootkits pack All in one. A rootkit is a program that is designed to hide itself and other programs, data, and/or activity including viruses, backdoors, keyloggers and spyware on a computer system.
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5.2.2007 Windows 7: The Anti-Vista?
Even with Windows Vista’s one-year anniversary launch just a week away, all that anyone in the tech-enthusiast community seems to want to talk about is Windows 7 (Except for those who are already sick of hearing about 7, as one Windows user characterized himself in a conversation I had yesterday.)
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25.1.2008 Microsoft Enhances Anti-Phishing in IE
Microsoft said on Thursday that it had signed three new providers to supply information on confirmed phishing Web sites for the company's Phishing Filter and SmartScreen technology products. A final version of Microsoft's anti-phishing IE plug-in was also released.
The Phishing Filter is offered as an add-in for the MSN Toolbar, which will be built into the next version of Internet Explorer. Microsoft's SmartScreen technology is used to detect phishing e-mails for the company's Hotmail and Windows Live Mail services.
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18.11.2005 Sophos Anti-Rootkit 1.3 RC
The term rootkit is used to define a Trojan (or technology) used to hide the presence of a malicious object (process, file, registry key, network port) from the computer user or administrator.
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18.4.2007 Dell's "anti-crapware" initiative doesn't go far enough
My wife's small business has recently had a requirement to upgrade a couple of PCs, after 5 or 6 years. Since I am ultimately responsible for all their IT (and I am not proud of what they have - I cut all sorts of corners to make my life easy, but they don't know how lean it is).
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22.12.2007 New Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Features
Windows 7 will not reinvent the anti-piracy wheel for Microsoft. Instead, the next iteration of the Windows client will be based on Windows Vista's Software Protection Platform, especially in regard to the activation and validation experience.
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7.5.2009 Microsoft WGA Update Anti-hack
Since the Windows Genuine Advantage debut as a pilot on 9/2004 Microsoft is slowly making the program more annoying and intrusive.
In the beginning the WGA was an opt-in feature, and then slowly it became mandatory. Users who choose not to validate their copy of Windows can not download updates from Windows update (they still can download critical security updates via automatic update feature in Windows).
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4.5.2006 Microsoft establishes more anti-GPLv3 precautions
Microsoft is running as fast as it can to patch up its patent agreements with Linux vendors to thwart any possible impact from the GPLv3.
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18.7.2007 Europe votes on anti-piracy laws
Europeans suspected of putting movies and music on file-sharing networks could be thrown off the web under proposals before Brussels.
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8.7.2008 Winpooch - Open source anti-spyware for windows
Description: detection of spywares and trojans. It becomes an anti virus if associated with ClamWin
Winpooch is a Windows watchdog, free and open source. Anti spyware and anti trojan, it gives a full protection against local or external attacks by scanning the activity of programs in real time. Associated with ClamWin antivirus, Winpooch keeps safe your computer against virus.
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6.12.2005 Anti-Spyware Added to Windows Live OneCare
Windows OneCare Live - which is now known as Windows Live OneCare (to bring the product naming in line with the rest of the Live family) is getting an anti-spyware infusion, as widely expected.
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12.3.2006 The anti-spyware market that never existed is officially dead
If anyone needed evidence that the standalone anti-spyware market is official dead (if it ever existed), along comes Webroot Software with Exhibit A, B and C:
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29.10.2007 Anti-P2P college bill advances in House
The U.S. House of Representatives has taken a step toward approving a Hollywood-backed spending bill requiring universities to consider offering "alternatives" and "technology-based deterrents" to illegal peer-to-peer file sharing.
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16.11.2007 Apple Adds Anti-Hacker Features to QuickTime
Faced with a security crisis affecting its media player, Apple responds with key exploit prevention mechanisms aimed at thwarting hacker attacks.
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13.4.2008 Microsoft to beef up anti-piracy checks in Vista SP1
Microsoft will change the user experience of its automatic anti-piracy checks in Windows Vista and also make it harder for hackers to bypass the system in the first service pack for the OS due out early next year.
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4.12.2007 Anti-Hack Update For Windows Vista Rev from Microsoft
The release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 not only heralded a long-awaited update of the operating system, it also meant the end of two common Windows Vista anti-activation exploits - the Grace Timer exploit and the Paradox OEM BIOS activation crack.
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12.5.2008Exclusive: Microsoft's new Anti-Virus, 'Morro', revealed
Ever since Microsoft discontinued its "OneCare" Anti-Virus suite, gossip has been flying that Microsoft would be releasing a free
Anti-Virus\Anti-Spyware tool codenamed "Morro". The software product, codenamed "Morro" after a beach in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is already being
tested by Microsoft employees and a trial version will be made available "soon". Microsoft has stated that Morro would be available by the end of
2009 at the latest. "Morro" is likely to be targeted to compete with the low end of anti-virus products from other providers, and it will not have
much of an impact on sales of full-blown security suites.
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16.06.2009Critical bug found in
anti-virus software
[b]A critical software bug has
been discovered in several of
the most widely used
anti-virus programs. It could
be exploited to take control
of a computer or to steal
information, according to an
analysis produced by the
independent security analyst
who made the
discovery.[/b]
The
glitch affects 39 different
Symantec products - including
both home and enterprise
versions of its anti-virus
software. It resides within
the Symantec anti-virus
library, which is used by all
of the
packages.[img]images/news/icon
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source[/b]:
http://www.newscientist.com/ar
ticle.ns?id=dn8505]NewScientis
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22.12.2005McAfee Updates Anti-Virus for Mac OS
McAfee on Wednesday announced that its Virex anti-virus software would now support Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger." The program is aimed at the business community to help prevent the spread of Windows worms and viruses. Although there still is no known virus that can infect a Mac OS X system, it can still act as a "carrier."..
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24.08.2005Symantec Anti-Virus Tool Puts
Server Passwords in Danger
Symantec Corp. is
investigating a report of a
security hole in a version of
its corporate anti-virus
product that could expose
sensitive username and
password information, the
company
acknowledged.
The reported security hole
affects Symantec Anti Virus
Corporate Edition Version 9
and could allow an attacker or
nonprivileged user to obtain
sensitive server log-in
information. Details of the
vulnerability were posted on
the Bugtraq mailing list
Wednesday.
The
vulnerability affects
organizations that have
deployed an internal
LiveUpdate server, which
distributes anti-virus
definition updates to Symantec
software clients on a
corporate network...
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06.09.2005Fix for free anti-virus generating fake traffic
The freeware version of anti-virus software AVG 8 was released with a feature called LinkScanner at the end of May that was found to create massive
amounts of fake traffic, enraging webmasters, and skewing site rankings...
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07.07.2008Microsoft Acknowledges Anti-Virus Failed VB100 Test
A Microsoft spokesperson
confirmed to BetaNews this
afternoon that it has learned
its Windows Live OneCare
anti-virus package has failed
a test conducted by the
respected British laboratory
Virus Bulletin ,
disqualifying it from carrying
the "VB100" logo
denoting 100% detection of a
selected battery of common
"in the wild" viruses...
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07.02.2007Microsoft Acknowledges Vista Anti-Virus Failed VB100 Test
A Microsoft spokesperson
confirmed to BetaNews this
afternoon that it has learned
its Windows Live OneCare
anti-virus package has failed
a test conducted by the
respected British laboratory
Virus Bulletin ,
disqualifying it from carrying
the "VB100" logo
denoting 100% detection of a
selected battery of common
"in the wild" viruses...
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07.02.2007Trend, Sophos and McAfee flunk Vista SP1 anti-virus tests
Top tier anti-virus vendors including McAfee, Trend Micro, and Sophos all failed to secure Windows Vista SP1 in recent independent tests.
Virus Bulletin, the independent security certification body, said 17 of 37 anti-virus products tested failed to reach the VB100 certification
standard. McAfee VirusScan, Trend Micro Internet Security and Sophos Anti-Virus overlooked threats known to be in circulation. Other vendors whose
products failed to make the grade included Alwil, BitDefender, Norman, PC Tools, and VirusBuster.
Some of the ignored threats -
largely polymorphic file infectors - have been in circulation for months. "It is disappointing to see so many products tripping up over threats that
are not even new - computer users should be getting a better service from their anti-virus vendors than this," Virus Bulletin technical consultant
John Hawes said.
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04.04.2008Anti-Virus Solutions for the Windows 7 Beta
Folks have been asking about anti-virus solutions that work with the Windows 7 Beta. In anticipation of this, Microsoft has been actively working with
security partners to help them get their applications ready for Windows 7. Three security vendors have taken the build we released to developers at
the PDC in October and have developed solutions available today that work with the Windows 7 Beta. The following anti-virus solutions are available
via
Windows 7 Security Provider page...
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15.01.2009Malware Exploits Anti-Virus Software Hole
Security firm eEye Digital
Security said Friday it had
discovered a new non-Microsoft
based malware that has both
the characteristics of a worm
and a botnet spreading the
wild, using a hole in popular
anti-virus software...
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15.12.2006Symantec false positive cripples thousands of Chinese PCs
A signature update to
Symantec's anti-virus
software crippled thousands of
Chinese PCs Friday when the
security software took two
critical Windows .dll files
for malware.
According to numerous blog
entries from Chinese computer
users, a virus signature
database seeded yesterday
mistook two system files of a
Chinese edition of Windows XP
SP2 as a Trojan horse which
Symantec dubs
"Backdoor.Haxdoor." The
anti-virus software -- Norton
AntiVirus, for example, or the
anti-virus component of the
Norton 360 or Norton Internet
Security suites -- then
quarantined the netapi32.dll
and lsasrv.dll files.
"With these files
removed, Windows XP will no
longer start up, and even the
system Safe Mode no longer
functions," said one user
writing to the
alt.comp.anti-virus newsgroup
this morning...
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19.05.2007Microsoft Moves Show Importance of Maintaining Antivirus Solutions
As reported recently by TechTarget, Inc., Microsoft has greatly beefed up their anti-malware team by hiring four of the anti-virus industry's top
researchers.
Microsoft earlier shook up the anti-malware industry by hiring other top talent away from competitors such as
Symantec Corp. and McAfee, Inc. Such moves show the importance being placed by the software giant for developing anti-virus and staying ahead of
viruses, spyware and worms. The recent additions to Microsoft's team -- hired away from CA -- are Jakub Kaminski, a 30-year veteran of the technology
industry and former head of CA's Australian antivirus research lab, and three of his colleagues from the same location.
Corporations go to great lengths to protect systems from malware -- a threat that only seems to worsen as time goes on. Keeping anti-malware
software constantly updated, and ensuring virus scans and performed on all company computers regularly is part and parcel of properly maintaining a
computer system. What many IT personnel may not realize, however, is the impact of disk file fragmentation on virus scan run times...
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22.08.2007Microsoft preparing to release free anti-virus software
According to Reuters, Microsoft is getting set to release free anti-virus software for Windows to compete with the likes of Symantec and McAfee. The
software product, codenamed "Morro" after a beach in Sao Paolo, Brazil, is already being tested by Microsoft employees and a trial version will be
made available "soon". Although it is difficult to gauge the effects this move by Microsoft will have over the long term, the announcement appears
to have contributed to a recent 0.5% decline in Symantec shares and a 1.3% drop in McAfee shares, while Microsoft's stock price has risen 2.1%.
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11.06.2009HP MediaSmart Server Update Arrives, With New Media Streaming, Anti-Virus Capabilities
HP have released their "April" update for the HP MediaSmart Server to the Web, which brings new, DLNA-complaint media streaming and anti-virus
capabilities to the home server, along with a suite of bug-fixes for HPs own add-ins.
The following new (optional) add-ins are
included...
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22.05.2008F-Secure Security Suite
Tackles Spyware, Rootkits
Finnish anti-virus
specialist F-Secure has dived
headfirst into the crowded
anti-spyware market, rolling
out a new consumer-facing
security suite that promises
to detect unwanted programs
before a PC becomes
injected.
F-Secure Corp.'s new F-Secure
Internet Security 2006 offers
technology to tackle the
problem of inadvertently
installed spyware and adware
programs that sneak onto
computers via file-sharing
networks.
F-Secure,
known mostly for its
anti-virus, network
encryption, desktop firewall,
intrusion prevention and
anti-spam product line, said
the new suit has also been
fitted with a new "new child
time lock feature" to allow
parents to filter Internet
sites with questionable
content and define sensible
time limits for kids to surf
the Internet...
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30.09.2005Trend Micro fails anti-malware test
All three of the anti-malware
products submitted by Trend
Micro for Virus Bulletin's
independent tests failed
because they produced false
positives.
Of the
20 products submitted for
testing, six generated false
positives when scanning a set
of known clean files and
failed to meet the
requirements for VB100
certification.
"Trend Micro, one of the
'big four' anti-malware
companies, submitted no fewer
than three of its anti-virus
products, all of which falsely
identified a Microsoft
development tool as spyware,"
said a statement from Virus
Bulletin.
"Other
products to generate false
positives were Fortinet's
FortiClient, Ikarus Utilities,
and VirusBuster."
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03.08.2007Keylogging Trojan Dodges Anti-virus Detection
A new variant of the Russian
Trojan Gozi is circulating on
the Web, this time armed with
a keylogging function and the
ability to scramble itself so
it is difficult to detect by
anti-virus software. The new
Trojan is believed to have
been spreading since April 17
and like the original, which
was discovered earlier in
2007, it steals data from
encrypted Secure Sockets Layer
streams. The latest variant
was uncovered May 7 by Don
Jackson, a security researcher
at SecureWorks in Atlanta.
Jackson also found one data
cache from the Gozi variant
that contained 2,000 new
victims and several thousand
bank and credit card account
numbers, Social Security
numbers and other personal
information. SecureWorks
researchers suspect that this
not the only server with
stolen Gozi data that exists.
" If you were
infected before mid-May, then
it will act like a rootkit and
hide itself on your PC and
will make itself undetectable
by most anti-virus
software ," he said. To
remedy this, he suggested that
home users reboot their
computers in Safe Mode and run
an anti-virus scan assuming
their anti-virus vendors have
a signature for the Gozi
variant. The newest instalment
of Gozi has a compression
component that it uses to
uncompress the blocks of code
that it needs to run. When it
no longer needs those blocks
of code, it recompresses them,
making it almost impossible to
see everything the variant is
doing in memory and that much
harder for anti-virus scans to
detect.
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26.05.2007Anti-virus software may soon be given the boot by something far better
Professor Avishai Wool and graduate student Ohad Ben-Cohen of Tel Aviv University (TAU) have developed an approach to battle computer viruses that may
put an end to anti-virus software. The approach is so revolutionary and simple that the days of our machines being slowed to a crawl while every file
is checked may soon be a thing of the past.
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11.09.2008Avast Anti-Virus for Windows Home Server - Beta Now Available
The worlds first anti-virus product for Windows Home Server is now in beta and available to download!
avast! WHS Edition is a
product designed specifically for antivirus protection of the upcoming Microsoft Windows Home Server platform. Besides providing the protection of the
WHS machine, it also supports simple management of other avast! products on the home network. This is performed directly through the WHS console, by
means of a new configuration page.
Note: This is a very short beta; the product is scheduled to be released in the first half
of November 2007, i.e. by the time the first WHS-based systems ship.
More Information and Download:
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11.10.2007Where Are the IE 8 Security Goodies?
There's a conspicuous absence of information about whether IE8 will include anti-malware blockers, anti-virus integration or changes to dangerous
ActiveX-related defaults.
The first beta of Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 8 browser looks surprisingly sparse on
security-related features and improvements.
The browser makeover, expected to be unveiled at the MIX08 conference in Las Vegas
this week, will feature several nifty productivity features but there's a conspicuous absence of information about whether IE8 will include
anti-malware blockers, anti-virus integration or changes to dangerous ActiveX-related defaults.
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