Posts Tagged ‘Antivirus software’

Spam, malware proliferate in late 2009

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Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera
Online security firm Websense has released a report on the cyberthreat landscape during the second half of 2009, and some of the findings are jaw dropping:
The firm, which scans millions of Web sites and e-mails a day looking for malicious content, found that 95 percent of all user-generated content came [...]

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Viruses That Leave Victims Red in the Facebook

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By BRAD STONE – NYTimes.com
It used to be that computer viruses attacked only your hard drive. Now they attack your dignity.
Malicious programs are rampaging through Web sites like Facebook and Twitter, spreading themselves by taking over people’s accounts and sending out messages to all of their friends and followers. The [...]

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Conficker C worm and April fool

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Worm like conficker is a digital time bomb which is hard coded to trigger on April 1 (April fool’s day). Antivirus companies are doing their best to minimize the impact of conficker worm. Conficker first variant was introduced few months back and have already caused significant amount of damage [...]

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