http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:58:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had an interesting query from Scientific American (see Larry Greenemeier's blog at http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=apple-disses-hackers-black-hat-conv-2008-08-05 to see the main thrust of the discussion). He asked, "Could Apple's move to pull its security presentation from the Black Hat conference backfire on the company and make the company more of a target for hacker scrutiny? ... http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/?p=136 Alas, Andrew Lee, our beloved leader in the Research team, has left ESET for green fields and postures - er, pastures - new. He was last observed heading for the beach and muttering something about bikinis, but assures us that he isn't leaving the antivirus industry. That's certainly a good thing, ... http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/?p=135  For many years, anti-malware industry developers and researchers have been waging a bitter war against malware writers. Even if the objectives of the malware writers have radically changed from fun to profit, the arms race has always continued. Malware writers are constantly trying to create programs that will evade antivirus ... http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/?p=134 Kurt Wismer (whose blog at http://anti-virus-rants.blogspot.com/ is well worth tracking, by the way) responded to my “Giving Old Viruses the Boot” blog as follows (I've only just seen it, hence my re-opening the topic as a fresh blog, rather than as another response to the original blog): kurt wismer Says: June ... http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/?p=131 Further to my recent post on the venerable (but still out there) Slammer worm, we were asked recently about a real old-timer, a boot-sector infector called Stoned.Angelina. (Oddly enough, I think this was the last BSI reported to me when I was still doing occasional 2nd-linet AV support earlier in this decade.) ... http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/?p=130 With the release of ESET's Mobile Antivirus, a security solution for smart phones, I started asking myself about mobile threats. While there is not as much malicious software attacking mobile platforms as exists in the desktop world, I was able to find some interesting samples to analyze. The following is ... http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/?p=129  In my copious free time, I sometimes answer questions on security issues on one of those "Ask the Experts"  pages. It sometimes feels a bit like stepping into a not-quite-parallel universe, where it's still 2002-3: a strangely high proportion of those queries are about Helkern (the worm most us know ... http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/?p=128 In the past few weeks there have been many rumors about Rustock.C: many people have talked how hard it is to process, and many people have also complained about the uselessness of a replicant sample made publicly available (MD5 00430470e6754f082b6c2c19d022caea). Actually, I can definitely say that this sample is... very ... http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/?p=127 I run (in my copious free time) a page called Mac Virus that I inherited from Susan Lesch, who ran it as a comprehensive Mac antivirus resource. (That page has nothing to do with the later pages at macvirus.org or macvirus.net, by the way, which also refer to themselves as Mac Virus, ... http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/?p=126 With the June Virus Bulletin test, ESET became the first antivirus company in the world to pass 50 tests for VB100 awards. As consumers I think you should know what the VB100 award means. First of all, a VB100 award does not mean that a product detects 100% of all viruses ... http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/?p=125