Conficker.C blocks access to protective services, downloads a Trojan, and is programmed to seek out 50,000 domains on April 1, as the authors of the worm try to outsmart security vendors.
Latest Conficker worm gets nastier
Microsoft is trying to stamp out the Koobface worm, which has spread aggressively on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, the company said Tuesday. In a post to the company's malware protection center blog, researcher Scott Molenkamp said that definitions for Koobface have been added to the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), the free anti-malware utility that Microsoft automatically delivers every month to users on Patch Tuesday.
Microsoft puts the kibosh on Koobface worm
Microsoft published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2009
Perhaps as many as 10 million PCs are infected with sneaky programs designed to steal sensitive financial information, anti-virus vendor Panda Security reports.The company found that just over 1 percent of systems belonging to the 67 million people who tried out its free ActiveScan test site last year were infected with malicious software designed to help thieves steal sensitive information about victims. If 1 percent of the world's 1 billion computers are infected, that would mean that this kind of software is on 10 million PCs worldwide, the company reports.
Anti-virus vendor: ID theft Trojans on 1 in 100 PCs
Microsoft published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for March 2009. This time they fix a critical and two important security issues in Windows.
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 8.5 Build 278a1439 has been released
Norman Malware Cleaner 2009.03.03 has been released
InfoWorld reports that Trend Micro said that it had spotted the first attack taking advantage on an IE flaw that was patched by Microsoft last week
Microsoft has posted the Microsoft Security Bulletin Re-Releases for February 16, 2009
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition has been released
Microsoft published the Security Bulletin Summary for February 2009
Microsoft published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for February 2009
Microsoft published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Major Revisions for January 28, 2009
InfoWorld reports that web sites rigged with malicious code are becoming more numerous by the day
Norman Malware Cleaner 2009.01.26 has been released
Microsoft published the Security Bulletin Major Revisions for January 21, 2009
Microsoft has released an ISO image with the January 2009 security updates
Microsoft published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Major Revisions for January 13, 2009
Microsoft published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for January 2009
Microsoft published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for January 2009
