Command line scanner GUI frontend

Pedro Bustamante at  16 September 08 04:02    
One of the readers of this blog was nice enough to create a GUI frontend to Panda Antivirus Command Line (PAVCL). It's a small little utility that's really useful for certain tasks. From the main window you can configure the scan, update the signature
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Malware Prevalence August 2008

Pedro Bustamante at  05 September 08 10:48    
During the month of August we've seen 8165 unique samples actively circulating and infecting users. These figures come mostly from people who use our online scanner Panda ActiveScan and have a variety of different AV products installed as well as
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Simply... Evolution

Pedro Bustamante at  17 July 08 04:13    
A very first look into something we're working on ;) If you want to sign up for a limited technology preview drop us a note with your details. Only a few people will be selected. Format: swf Duration: --:--
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Most Popular Freeware Championship 2008

Pedro Bustamante at  09 July 08 10:00    
First it was the Eurocup, then Wimbeldon, and to top it all off, Panda Anti-Rootkit has won Germany's PC WELT " Most Popular Freeware Tool " Championship 2008. This is a prize run by members of PC Welt forums and the selection is done by
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WildList, Virus Bulletin 100% and other battles

Pedro Bustamante at  06 July 08 10:22    
There's been a lot of talk about the WildList lately. On one hand Larry Seltzer criticized the WildList based certifications as not representative of reality plus a strain on antivirus products by having to detect 10 year old viruses. Some key comments
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New Panda Antivirus Command Line 9.5.1

Pedro Bustamante at  04 July 08 01:04    
I'm happy to announce the availability of our new Panda Antivirus Command-Line scanner (PAVCL) version 9.5.1.00. This new engine incorporates interesting features over previous versions specially focused on detecting and deactivating active rootkits
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Antivirus industry 10 years ago

Pedro Bustamante at  20 June 08 03:51    
From our friends at Ikarus. In the last Virus Bulletin I got a t-shirt from them with this picture on it, but forgot it at the G-Data Table Soccer Championship booth after the final match against BitDefender :( I wonder what the 2009 picture will look
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Panda Internet Security 2009 BETA

Pedro Bustamante at  19 June 08 09:47    
We've recently released the new Panda Internet Security 2009 to public beta. This is the first product to use "scanning from the cloud" technology based on Panda's Collective Intelligence [ PDF ] as the first line of defense against
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Malware Prevalence May 2008

Pedro Bustamante at  16 June 08 12:40    
During the month of May we've seen a 346% growth over April of unique samples actively circulating and infecting users (23.550 samples in May vs. 6.809 in April). Out of the total seen In-The-Wild only a portion are new and not seen in previous months,
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Banking Trojans III

Pedro Bustamante at  02 June 08 12:24    
In previous posts Banking Trojans I and Banking Trojans II we did an overview of the main banker trojan families and their simple characteristics (files and registry entries). Let's dig a little deeper now and take a look at their infection and hiding
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Debian OpenSSL

Pedro Bustamante at  27 May 08 05:45    
From HDMoore , too good to pass out:
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Fenomen(al) False Positives

Pedro Bustamante at  19 May 08 06:22    
One of the problems with automation of antivirus signature creation is that if a few AV vendors start detecting something as malicious, even with heuristics, "automagically" soon afterwards other AV vendors start doing the same without even
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Anti-Rootkit Testing

Pedro Bustamante at  16 May 08 12:02    
DarkReading issued a note a few days ago titled " New Tests Show Rootkits Still Evade AV ". These tests, originally performed by AV-Test.org , are becoming more important every day as malware is making use of advanced rootkit and hiding techniques
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New Malware Prevalence April 2008

Pedro Bustamante at  09 May 08 12:51    
Even though we get thousands of new malware samples in the lab every day, only a fraction of these make it in-the-wild actively infecting users. These are the most interesting samples for us as they're the ones we need to concentrate on the most.
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Banking Trojans II

Pedro Bustamante at  21 April 08 05:21    
In Banking Trojans Part I I covered some banking trojan families. Here I will list the rest of the most dangerous of these types of malicious codes. Goldun, Haxdoor, Nuclear Grabber It usually drops a DLL and a SYS file with rootkit functionality. It
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