Bitdefender, the well-known security solutions provider, released a report naming the most encountered threats found in the Romanian online environment in 2011's third trimester.
It will be interesting to see the results of this study, especially after recent studies named Romania, along with France and China... |
6 October 2011
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It’s simply amazing how much impact an apparently minor security mitigation managed to deliver in the case Autorun-abusing malware. Autorun-related Windows XP and Windows Vista infection rates have dropped dramatically in the first half of 2011 compared to the previous year, all thanks to an update to the feat... |
15 June 2011
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As an added security mitigation Microsoft has amputated the functionality associated with Autorun in a move designed to block malicious code abusing the feature. The Redmond company built the new Autorun behavior by default into Windows 7, but also backported the new security measures to Windows Vista and Windows XP... |
14 February 2011
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It’s now easier than ever for customers running older Windows releases to increase the security of their platforms by accessing an element of Windows 7’s evolution related to the AutoPlay. Back in April 2009, long before Windows 7 was released to manufacturing, Microsoft kicked up a notch AutoRun for the... |
10 February 2011
04:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has released an optional software update yesterday which restricts the AutoRun functionality on older Windows operating systems, therefore blocking a common malware propagation vector.AutoRun is the feature responsible for automatically parsing autorun.inf files found on removable media devices, such as USB... |
9 February 2011
08:54 GMT |
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Even before the release of Windows 7 Release Candidate Build 7100 Microsoft announced that it would take extreme measures in order to increase end user protection and amputate the AutoPlay/AutoRun feature of the operating system. Over a months after Windows 7 has been released to manufacturing, Microsoft is applying ... |
26 August 2009
12:01 GMT |
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With the latest move on the evolution from Beta to Release Candidate Microsoft is proving that it's not all about adding features when it comes to advancing the development process of Windows 7. Applying “the end justifies the means” tactic Microsoft has amputated the AutoPlay/AutoRun feature from th... |
30 April 2009
03:28 GMT |
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The recent avalanche of threats proved us that many, if not the majority of threats attempt to spread themselves by copying their files on clean removable drives connected to an infected computer. Usually, this process is based on Autorun.Inf, a file placed on the targeted removable devices that executes the infectio... |
4 January 2008
17:06 GMT |
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