Sep 30, 2008

Microsoft is after scareware makers

I think that everyone of us has seen popup "warnings" while surfing that can for example say "you have 350 errors in your registry. click here to fix them".

Most of those programs advertised in those popups are either useless or rogues.

Washington Post writes that Microsoft will sue Branch Software because of their Registry Cleaner XP.

Other scareware programs that Microsoft is interested about are Antivirus 2009, Malwarecore, WinDefender, WinSpywareProtect and XPDefender.

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Sep 24, 2008

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2 released

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2 has been released.

There has been corrected two critical, two moderate and one low vulnerabilities.

For more details, see here

See release notes here and download Firefox 3.0.2 here

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Sep 17, 2008

AV-comparatives September test out

AV-comparatives September test has been published.

This time top 3 antiviruses are:

1. AVIRA AntiVir Premium 99,2 %
2. G DATA AntiVirus Kit 99,1 %
3. Symantec AntiVirus 97,9%

In total there was tested 16 antivirus programs.

Read entire test here (Comparatives, On-demand comparative August 2008).

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Sep 8, 2008

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.27 released

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.27 has been released.

See below changelog from Malwarebytes forum:


1. (FIXED) Main window now brought to front when the scan finishes.
2. (ADDED) Function to restore broken SecurityProviders.
3. (ADDED) Associations are now checked for malicious entries.
4. (ADDED) Heuristics for common infections.
5. (ADDED) New mirror to updates.


See more about program and download it here.

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Sep 6, 2008

September Microsoft updates to be released on Tuesday

Monthly Microsoft updates will be released on next Tuesday.

There will be four updates in total, all classified as critical.

All updates will be for Remote Code Execution and affected software are Windows (2000, XP, Vista and Server 2008), Internet Explorer, .NET Framework, Microsoft Office, SQL Server and Visual Studio.

Microsoft Malicious Software removal tool will also get updated.

Read more here

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Sep 2, 2008

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.26 released

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.26 has been released.

See below changelog from Malwarebytes forum:

1. (FIXED) Problem repairing certain registry keys.
2. (FIXED) Converted log file names to ISO standard.
3. (FIXED) False positives on limited user accounts.
4. (ADDED) Safeguard to prevent users from losing scan results.
5. (ADDED) Brand new header logo.


See more about program and download it here.

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