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Articles on Malware

Windows 7 default user account control worries experts

Crave Corporate IT departments should be pleased with new security measures in Windows 7, but consumers are still at risk of getting hit by malware despite changes in the User Account Control ... Read story »

Cory Aquino death used to spread malware

Blogs Once more showing how unscrupulous people can be in taking advantage of tragedies, some sites are tricking users into downloading fake antivirus software by pretending to offer news on the death ... Read story »

Ads--the new malware delivery format

Crave On his blog Input & Output, Seven Scale CEO Troy Davis offers an analysis of the scareware ad that appeared on NYTimes.com. Instead of hacking into major online sites to ... Read story »

iPhone gets Cisco security app

Crave The Cisco SIO To Go iPhone app offers information about the safety of particular Web sites. Cisco is offering a free iPhone app that will allow people to get customized alerts ... Read story »

The problems with shortened URLs on Twitter

Blogs The need to say everything in 140 characters has spurred the growth of shortened URL services. These services are great and come with some additional addon services like tracking click-throughs, etc. ... Read story »

AVG temporarily blocked iTunes, labeling it malware

Crave AVG's free antivirus product temporarily blocked users from getting to iTunes late last week, detecting it as a Trojan, the company said on Monday. For about 5 hours on Friday starting ... Read story »

Two new Mac attacks surface

Crave This is the message visitors to the porn site get which tricks them into installing an ActiveX object to watch a video but instead downloads a Trojan. This screenshot shows a ... Read story »

Pirated Windows 7 PCs build botnet

Crave A pirated version of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) infected with a Trojan horse has created a botnet with tens of thousands of bots under its control, according to researchers at ... Read story »

SMS vulnerabilities for iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile found

Blogs Security experts at the Black Hat conference revealed that phones running Android and Windows Mobile can be compromised by sending SMS messages. This vulnerability also extends to the Apple iPhone. Charlie ... Read story »

Symbian Foundation admits Trojan slip-up

Crave The Symbian Foundation has acknowledged that its process for keeping malicious applications off Symbian OS-based phones needs improvement, after a Trojan horse program passed a security test. The botnet-building Trojan, which ... Read story »

Fake antivirus on the rise states report

Crave An example of a fake antivirus software. Malware posing as antivirus software is spreading fast with tens of millions of computers infected each month, according to a report to be ... Read story »

iPhone and OS X to get AVG antivirus in 2010

Crave For antivirus software maker AVG, the iPhone not only needs software to protect it from malware, but is on course to get some, hopefully by the end of 2010. In an ... Read story »

Microsoft to launch free Morro antivirus software soon

Blogs After announcing its latest search engine Bing to the market, Microsoft is preparing to launch its latest security offering called Morro. The new antivirus software will be out in the market ... Read story »

No such thing as a free Snow Leopard

Crave People eager to get a copy of the latest version of the Mac operating system, Snow Leopard, should be wary of sites offering free copies because they are likely to get ... Read story »

Beware of swine flu-related spam and malware

Blogs While the world is scrambling for a solution in determining how to control or totally stop the proliferation of the so-called "swine flu", spammers are taking advantage of the situation by ... Read story »

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