October 2007 - Posts

How to prevent zero day exploits

Pedro Bustamante at  31 October 07 11:56    
With all the talk about the latest wave of PDF exploits in the wild , proactive protections against vulnerabilities in common applications (MS Office, Acrobat Reader, RealPlayer, WinAmp, Windows Media Player…) are proving to be an effective solution
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Think you're protected? Think again

Pedro Bustamante at  17 October 07 02:02    
For many years the security industry has been saying that in order to be correctly protected, users should have an anti-malware and firewall solution installed and up-to-date with the latest signatures at all times. However malware today is really specialized
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2007 Proactive Malware Detection Report

Pedro Bustamante at  16 October 07 08:44    
After working so hard it's difficult to keep it to ourselves, so it's time for a little blatant self-promotion. SuspectFile.com, a well known malware support forum in Italy, has recently finished its 2007 AV Report ( italian / english ), focusing
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Windows Vista spotted in-the-wild

Pedro Bustamante at  08 October 07 10:41    
I just read an interesting post by Alex about adoption of Windows Vista. We recently finished a three month research study to discover infection rates on 1,206 medium-sized companies worldwide by performing a malware audit on them. The following are the
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