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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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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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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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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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Banking Trojans I

Pedro Bustamante at  18 April 08 12:40    
Some of the most dangerous types of threats out there today are banking trojans. These malicious trojans are very specialized and focused at stealing banking credentials. They use advanced techniques to fool users , such as injecting HTML code to ask
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Rootkits in the mist

Pedro Bustamante at  26 June 07 06:05    
During the last 7 months we've been able to gather some really interesting statistics thanks to Panda Anti-Rootkit on which rootkits are most actively infecting users as well as new emerging rootkit techniques being used in the wild. Out of the tens
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New Panda Anti-Rootkit - Version 1.07

Pedro Bustamante at  27 April 07 04:15    
We're experiencing a lot of downloads of Panda AntiRootkit. Many thanks to all the people that are helping us improve this free utility by sending suggestions, comments, feedback and submitting new rootkits that are being found in the wild. I'm
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Panda AntiRootkit Official Release

Pedro Bustamante at  02 April 07 11:44    
We're very glad to announce that Panda AntiRootkit 1.06 has finally been officially released for the mass market. It has taken a while since we've been implementing a lot of the suggestions and reports received during the alpha and beta testing
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Rootkit cleaner

Pedro Bustamante at  14 December 06 09:06    
Rootkits are normally not visible to traditional AVs since they hide by installing themselves as kernel modules, low level hooks and by patching undocumented OS functions. Rootkits may not be malicious on their own but they're used by hackers to hide
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