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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Windows 7 can learn from OS X
An Apple user's take on what Windows 7 needs to succeed. Our hands-on Windows 7 pre-beta review shows that things are looking promising for Windows 7.
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28.11.2008 Windows 7 to go: New portables for the new OS
Exciting, innovative notebooks and netbooks are being built around Microsoft's latest operating system. Here's a preview.
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15.10.2009 Windows vs. Linux vs. Mac OS X
There has been a consistent amount of “ink” spilled over comparing Windows, Linux and Mac OS X this month. The reports have generated some controversy, because they point out that Windows delivers a more secure platform than Linux and Mac OS X.
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30.3.2007 How to Install Chrome OS in Windows 7
Google unveiled Chrome OS in an event yesterday where they demonstrated the upcoming cloud-based OS for the first time in public. Source code of Chrome OS was also released which folks over at gdgt have compiled in a ready-to-install .vmdk file.
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20.11.2009 Mac OS X Leopard vs. Windows Vista
HardwareLogic has partnering up with Newegg to sponsor the User Guide Of The Month.
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8.5.2007 50 Reasons to switch from Windows to OS X?
Or, a lost sheep’s ongoing struggle to stay relevant in this internet age.
In a post last week, on St. Valentine’s Day no less, Pirillo states his 50 reasons to switch from Windows (any version?) to OS X.
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19.2.2008 Last OS Standing: Make the Most of Windows Vista
Now that Windows XP is no longer being sold by Microsoft, PC users will be stuck with Windows Vista. Here's a roundup of PC World's best tips for making Vista easier to use.
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3.7.2008 Microsoft will soon release 'Windows Cloud' OS
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer revealed a few details on Wednesday of a forthcoming operating system that will help developers write Internet-based applications.
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1.10.2008 Trouble Ahead for Microsoft's Windows OS
There is trouble ahead for Microsoft's Windows operating system. The Redmond company's flagship product is in for a tough run because of the U.S. credit crunch and the global financial problems it generated.
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16.10.2008 It Will Be Windows 7 SP1 to Go Against Google Chrome OS
In the second half of 2010 Microsoft’s client operating system will have a new rival platform hungry for a piece of its market share.
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16.9.2009 Chrome OS beta as a Windows 7 spoiler?
Warning: This is a completely speculative post. But stay with me as I paint a possible scenario…
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15.10.2009 Windows Vista Beta 1 vs. Mac OS X "Tiger
From Paul Thurrotte's SuperSite:
In part one of my comparison of Windows Vista Beta 1 and Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger," I looked at three key aspects of each system: Look and feel, desktop search, and data visualization and organization. For the most part, OS X came out well ahead of Windows Vista, as you'd expect, since it's a polished finished product. Vista, meanwhile, is all knees and elbows, an awkward teenager on its way to maturity.
. Microsoft will iron out the details, I'm sure, but the end result will likely not change much. Specifically, OS X will always be elegant, and Windows will almost certainly lag behind in the fit and finish department. The only questions are how much Vista will improve when compared to previous Windows versions, and whether it will be enough to keep customers from moving to OS X.
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29.11.2005 Windows Vista Bitlocker encrypts only OS partition
Just had a great session on Integrity in Windows Vista from Steve Riley. This security guy from Microsoft is allways great to listen to.
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13.6.2006 Microsoft Restructures Its Windows Core OS Division
Microsoft has restructured its Windows Core Operating System Division into five teams in a move designed to better focus on PC hardware and provide a richer set of customer solutions.
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13.10.2006 Microsoft: Windows Vista Safer than OS X, Linux
Microsoft security strategy director Jeff Jones this week published a report comparing the security vulnerability profile for various high-profile operating systems in the 90 days of their existence.
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26.3.2007 Using Windows Server 2008 as a SUPER workstation OS
Vijayshinva Karnure, a IIS, ASP and ASP.NET troubleshooter as well as a consultant for developers and system admins of Microsoft India is so cool!
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14.2.2008McAfee 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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24.08.2005First Mac OS X Virus? Apple
Says No
Loyalists on both sides of the
Mac versus Windows debate shot
into action Thursday following
news that the first virus had
been spotted for Apple's
operating system. The malware,
dubbed Leap.A, spreads through
iChat and infects local
applications. But Apple
downplayed the threat, saying
malicious software is
different from a virus...
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17.02.2006Symantec Reports on Mac OS X Virus
Security firm Symantec on
Friday detailed a new
proof-of-concept virus that
has surfaced for Mac OS X.
Although the malware is not in
the wild and is rated a very
low risk, researchers say it
highlights the fact that no
operating system is immune
from viruses...
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03.11.2006First Trojan-SMS virus for S60 Smartphones
The first Trojan SMS
virus, designed for
smartphones running Series 60
OS, has been spotted by
Russian antivirus maker
“Kaspersky Labs”. The
virus is called
Trojan-SMS.Symb.OS.Viver.
Viver is not a
harmless concept study like
recent Podloso Linux virus for
iPod. If you get infected with
this one, it can cost you some
pretty money - after
installation on your phone,
Viver starts sending SMS
messages to the premium SMS
numbers, thus accruing charges
to your mobile account and
generating income for the
virus author.
While
quite a few similar viruses
were spotted for all JAVA
running mobile phones, Viver
is the first to be
specifically designed for S60
based smartphones...
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22.05.2007Cross-platform Proof-of-concept virus for OpenOffice.org
A group of malware developers
have produced a
proof-of-concept virus called
BadBunny that uses OpenOffice
macros. The code was sent
directly to SophosLabs, which
has already issued virus
protection updates. Sophos
technology consultant Graham
Cluley describes BadBunny as
" old-school malware
seemingly written to show off
a proof of concept rather than
a serious attempt to spy on
and steal from computer
users ." The virus, which
is embedded in a specially
crafted OpenOffice Draw
document, can execute scripts
with user-level permissions
and attempts to propagate
itself across the Internet via
mIRC and XChat.
The
BadBunny virus provides
insight into the security
failings of OpenOffice. The
most notable aspect of the
BadBunny virus is its
cross-platform nature; it can
successfully infect Windows,
Mac OS X, and Linux systems
and is capable of propagating
itself on both Windows and
Linux. Although it uses
OpenOffice's generic macro
language as the delivery
mechanism, the BadBunny virus
payload contains an assortment
of scripts specialized for
each target platform. On
Windows, BadBunny uses
JavaScript, on Mac OS X it
uses Ruby, and on Linux it
uses Perl and Python.
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23.05.2007Anti-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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15.01.2009Kama Sutra Virus a Dud So Far
Reports indicate that damage
from the Kama Sutra virus
appears to be minimal thus
far, however at least one
security firm warned that the
real results from the worm may
not be known until later in
the weekend. The virus will
attempt to stop antivirus
software and delete files...
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03.02.2006Apple Says Virus = Windows
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14.10.2007Apple Ships iPods with Windows Virus
Apple apologized Tuesday for
shipping video iPods
containing the Windows virus
RavMonE.exe, which apparently
made its way onto a small
number of the ubiquitous
devices at a manufacturing
plant. Around 1 percent of
units shipped after September
12, 2006 are affected...
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18.10.2006Mac Virus is Damp Squib, says Symantec
A proof of concept Mac OS X
virus, which was discovered
late last week and dubbed
Macarena, includes comments in
the code that indicate the
author had a difficult time
creating the malware.
According to antivirus company
Symantec, Macarena - which has
infected less than 50 machines
- has a very poor replication
mechanism and is unlikely to
cause problems for the
majority of Mac users.
Paul Ducklin, head of
technology for Sophos Asia
Pacific, said the virus was
"not important or
significant" but he was
concerned the author had
distributed the source code,
which could "not only explain
how you might write a virus
but give someone direct tools
to create one even if they
have no skills of their own".
However, in the source code,
Ducklin said the author had
expressed what appears to be
frustration at trying to make
the virus effective on
Apple's platform.
Ducklin said: "In the
source code, which is a
mishmash of stuff, there is a
comment where the author says
'so many problems for so
little code'. So it does look
as though virus writers,
fortunately, still have a way
to go before they are able to
write Mac viruses with the
proficiency and fluidity that
they can for Windows. "It
doesn't have any of the
characteristics of a modern
effective or dangerous Windows
worm or Trojan, it is a simple
appending parasitic
infector."
He also
revealed Macarena will only
affect Intel-based Macs:
"This is an Intel specific
thing - not Power PC."
However, Ducklin warned the
Apple community not to be
complacent because although
writing malware for the Mac is
more difficult than it is for
Windows, the users' common
sense can be a weak point. He
said: "There are things that
are done in OS X that make it
less likely you will get a
virus but very little can head
off a determined and
ill-informed user. If you are
determined to run a program
against common sense then you
can get yourself into trouble
and that may cause trouble for
the next guy."
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06.11.2006Facebook gets hit with a virus
Facebook has been hit with a virus that could spread to its 120 million users. The virus has been dubbed "knobface", which tries to gather
personal information from users computers such as credit card numbers. The virus dubbed "knobface" sends a message to all the friends of the
infected titled "You look just awesome in this new movie". Users who opened the messaged where asked to download a fake update for Adobe flash
player, which was actually the virus itself being downloaded and installed onto victims computers. If users attempted to use any of the major three
search engines such as Yahoo, Google, or Live search, users would be taken to contaminated sites.
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06.12.2008Microsoft 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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07.02.2007First StarOffice, OpenOffice
Virus Found
Security researchers may have
found the first known virus
for StarOffice and
OpenOffice.org. According to a
Kaspersky Lab researcher, the
exploit is known as a
"macro virus,"
previously only known to
infect Microsoft Office
applications...
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01.06.2006'Serious Flaw' Claimed Found
in Mac OS
German technology site Heise
Online reported Monday that a
serious flaw has been
discovered within Mac OS X.
The vulnerability could put
users in danger of falling
victim to a scripting attack,
say security experts. But like
the previous "virus"
reported last week, manual
interaction is required...
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21.02.2006Conficker virus grounds French fighter planes
A virus making the rounds on Windows machines apparently left three French fighter jets unable to load their computers' flight plans, according to
news reports from Europe...
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10.02.2009Symantec 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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19.05.2007Phoenix BIOS with hypervisor to premiere Monday in NEC laptops
BetaNews has learned that, on Monday, NEC will roll out plans to include remotely manageable anti-virus technology in PC notebooks, running outside of
the Windows OS in Linux-based HyperSpace firmware from Phoenix Technologies...
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12.07.2008Virus Poses as MSN Messenger
Beta
A new virus is taking
advantage of the fervor
surrounding the Windows Live
Messenger Beta by disguising
itself as a copy of the beta.
Called Virkel.F by security
firm F-Secure, once executed
it will connect the PC to a
botnet server and send a link
to contacts on your buddy
list...
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28.12.2005Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Have Failed to Break the Market's Windows Fatigue
Statistics for the operating system market come in different flavors and from a variety of sources but they all have one thing in common: indicating
that Windows is losing ground to Mac OS X and Linux. As far as Microsoft is concerned, it reached the apex of the operating system market with the
launch of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP back in 2004. Since then, it has been all down hill for the Redmond giant. Sure, the slope is by no means
steep enough for a hard Windows fall, just sufficiently inclined through the erosion produced by Mac OS X and Linux that the ground is slipping from
under Microsoft's proprietary platform, slowly but surely...
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