Archive for the 'Malware' Category
Half of pirated Vista is malware
Sunday, February 18th, 2007About half of the downloads claiming to be free versions of Microsoft Corp.’s Vista operating system are actually malicious Trojan horse software, security vendor DriveSentry Inc. warned Thursday. Hackers have been bombarding discussion boards with offers of "cracked" versions of Windows Vista, which are typically being distributed on peer-to-peer networks, said John Lynch, vice president [...]
Webroot: Vista Defender stops only 16% of spyware
Sunday, January 28th, 2007Users who put their faith in Vista’s new security features and Microsoft’s Windows Defender antispyware product may find themselves under attack from spyware all the same, according to the results of a study by Webroot, a leading antispyware vendor and Microsoft competitor. On Thursday, the company released the results of what it claimed was a [...]
Windows Vista and protection from malware
Friday, December 22nd, 2006On November 30, Sophos issued its monthly report on the top ten threats reported to them in November of 2006. As a part of this, Sophos also studied Windows Vista’s vulnerability to these malware threats. I found the information and press discussion confusing, so I thought I would clarify what this really means [...]
Kaspersky believes Windows Vista cannot guarantee protection against malware
Friday, December 22nd, 2006According to Natalya Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab, Microsoft is unlikely to be at the vanguard of anti-virus, despite the security enhancements of Vista and its standalone anti-malware product, OneCare. Kasperksy claims there are three reasons why the software giant will struggle to muscle in on anti-virus vendors’ territory.
Windows Vista Susceptible to Huge Percentage of Malware
Thursday, December 7th, 2006Windows Vista is wide open to nearly 40 percent of the malware currently circulating, Microsoft has admitted, following a report by Sophos.
Remarkably, with the new operating system just released to business, the software giant said in effect that there is nothing it can do about the threats in question—Stratio-Zip, Netsky-D and MyDoom-O—because they rely on [...]
Is Windows Vista Immune to Malware?
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006Now that Microsoft has released the Windows Vista operating system and the Office 2007 productivity suite, talk has shifted from months of launch-date speculation to concerns over specific safeguards needed to ensure that the new software is secure.
The software giant called the release the "most significant" in its history, while unveiling the long-awaited operating system [...]
Experts Unconcerned Over Non Release of Vista AV
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006Industry analysts were not surprised to see that many leading security vendors did not choose to roll out their new Windows Vista anti-virus products when the much-awaited Microsoft operating system launched on Nov. 30. While McAfee is actively touting its status as the only major AV (anti-virus) provider to get a Vista product out the [...]
Nets top malware targets Vista
Friday, December 1st, 2006SECURITY GEEZERS AT SOPHOS have tested out November’s Dodgiest Malware on Vista and discovered the three biggest buggers are functional on Vista.
Stratio-Zip, the name of a particularly nasty worm, has overtaken Netsky-P as the most heavily circulated piece of malware, said Sophos. Stratio is perfectly capable of bypassing Vista’s security and infecting PCs, apparently. Netsky-D [...]
Microsoft blocks Black Hat Vista hack
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006Microsoft has changed Windows Vista to prevent a hack that was demonstrated at a high-profile security event this summer, but the fix may spell trouble.
Joanna Rutkowska, a Polish researcher at Singapore-based Coseinc, demonstrated the hack at Black Hat in August. She showed that it was possible to bypass security measures in 64-bit versions of Vista [...]
Blue Pill malware is undetectable in Vista
Friday, September 22nd, 2006The researcher who developed Blue Pill, an attempt at producing undetectable malware for Windows Vista, is working on a stealthier version that could be finished within the next few months.
Polish malware specialist Joanna Rutkowska, who works as a senior researcher at Singapore’s Computer Security Initiative Consultancy Pte, unveiled a prototype of Blue Pill earlier this [...]
