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Firm claims proactive detection of viruses, Trojans, rootkits, key-loggers and spyware. Security firm PC Tools has launched a behaviour-based consumer security software suite dubbed ThreatFire. The company claims that the offering improves on traditional anti-malware products because it offers proactive detection, unlike signature-based technology which provides only reactive protection.

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This worm is part of a complex attack initiated by the NUWAR family. The attack employs multiple components that work together to achieve a common goal. Read a comprehensive description of the malware family here: War Against NUWAR: Fighting the Latest Profit-driven, Multi-component, Focused Attack.

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This virus infects boot sectors of floppy disks and partition tables of hard disks. It stays in memory to infect all floppy disks that are accessed. However, it has no destructive payloads.

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This worm arrives as a file dropped by other malware. It can be installed manually by a user or downloaded unknowingly by a user when visiting malicious Web sites. It drops copies of itself in the Windows common Startup folder to ensure its automatic execution at every system startup.

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To get a one-glance comprehensive view of the behavior of this malware, refer to the Behavior Diagram shown below.This Trojan arrives as attachment to email messages spammed by another malware or a malicious user. The said spammed email contains a .ZIP file, which contains a copy of this Trojan and an .HTML file.

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In this age of botnets, rootkits, spyware and other bleeding edge security threats, file infectors are frequently thought of as a dead threat. But over the past year or so, we have seen a resurgence in classic file infecting viruses. Parasitic threats such as W32/Bacalid, W32/Detnat and W32/Polip have enjoyed a relatively high degree of [...]

Having antivirus software installed on a system is not the same as having an updated antivirus solution in place; surprisingly, some people don’t understand the difference. The influx of non-techie users into the online world has been both boon and bane for the growth of the Internet. Greater demand for useful and innovative services brought [...]

The Storm Worm ranks as one of this year’s most virulent and persistent viruses. After making a January debut, transported by e-mail, the virus was notable for the more than 50,000 variants that it subsequently spawned.The Storm Worm has since continued unabated, most recently in the form of Web-based attacks.

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It’s another game of chance for Monster.com users: TrendLabs has just discovered a suspiciously-constructed URL that is possibly involved in a phishing attack against the said popular job-hunting site:

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The term "Federal Trojan" has been dominating media reports for several months and is currently a hot topic in almost every forum. In the following article we summarize what this is all about and explain our position as a manufacturer of security software. Let us journey back in time to Germany in the year 2005. [...]

The Web site of one of China’s Internet security organizations has been laced with malicious code. At least three pages on the Chinese Internet Security Response Team’s (CISRT) Web site are rigged with a malicious "iframe," a hidden window on a Web page that can allow code such as JavaScript to run on a visitor’s [...]

Sunbelt Software, a leading provider of Windows security software, today announced the top ten most prevalent spyware and malware threats for the month of September. The report, compiled from monthly scans performed by Sunbelt’s award-winning antispyware tool, CounterSpy(TM), is a service of the Sunbelt Software Threat Research Center.

One in every 833 emails in September were infected with malicious attachments compared to one in every 1,000 during August, new research reveals. The jump in malware attachments was primarily due to a coordinated campaign by hackers to spam out the Pushdo Trojan during the second half of September, according to security firms.

Three men accused of forcing spyware onto more than 15 million computers have agreed to pay $330,000 in fines and to to be monitored by federal authorities for up to eight years. The penalty settles charges by the Federal Trade Commission that Elliott S. Cameron, Robert A. Davidson II and Garry E. Hill violated federal [...]

CashOn, an adware toolbar plug-in, has topped security company Fortinet’s global list of high-risk threats for the month of September. According to a report released today, the amount of adware "almost doubled in volume since August", moving up from fourth to first place in September.
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