Tag archive for virus

Microsoft has announced they will be releasing their own antivirus software very soon. Given the codename, “Morro,” the new software will be a competitor to the major antivirus software makers like Symantec and McAfee.
The main goal of this software is to remove trojans, spyware and viruses. That’s it. It’s currently undergoing testing and is likely [...]

Some brand new Viliv S5 MIDs have been found to have viruses infecting them, despite being fresh from the factory.  Nobody knows quite how many of the 4.8-inch touchscreen mini-tablets are affected, but there have been multiple reports that those machines have several viruses present.

If ever there was a good reason to keep your computer spyware-free, this is it.  Last month a group of more than 100,000 Windows-based PCs saw their operating systems self-destruct, after the botnet that infected them issued the “nuclear option”.  Little-used, though apparently present in several different types of trojan, the “kos” or “kill operating [...]

Various torrents of the Windows 7 RC have been infected with a trojan that, if allowed to run successfully, could open a security hole in a user’s system.  The affected torrents have the setup.exe install file encapsulated in a self-extracting archive, along with an installer for the trojan itself; launching it triggers an install of [...]

A second version of the trojan infecting pirated copies of iWork ‘09 has been identified, this time distributed with torrents of Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Mac.  OSX.Trojan.iServices.B installs with root privileges and then opens a back-door to the trojan author, leaving the Mac potentially open to remote takeover.  The malware was identified by security firm [...]

Apple may have added some neat tricks to iWork ‘09 earlier this month, but they didn’t list a trojan on the spec sheet.  That, however, is what at least 20,000 users have found infecting their machines, after illegally downloading a pirated version of the software.  The trojan – which obviously Apple didn’t add themselves – [...]

We have all gotten those annoying ads that use a “scareware” scheme to try and convince you that your computer is infected with a virus. You navigate to a page only to find a popup that appears to be scanning your computer and finding multiple problems. FTC has gone and put an end to this [...]

Apple’s much-publicized anti-virus advice has disappeared from the company’s support pages.  The document, which “encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities”, used to be found at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2550, but at time of posting is no longer there.

Apple has begun advising users of its computers to install anti-virus software, in a move that is likely to stir controversy between Mac aficionados and their PC counterparts.  The advice is part of a support document entitled Mac OS: Antivirus Utilities, posted on November 21st, in which the company “encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus [...]

If you’re an avid PC gamer, then you know what it’s like to be online a lot and run into malware and viruses. In order to combat these problems, you probably pick up an anti-virus software, but it uses so much room and acts as such a memory hog, it takes the fun out of [...]