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The third build of the new BitDefender Total Security 2010 was announced by the security company as having been released already to the users. According to our information this should be the third and final beta of the product before the release of the final version. BitDefender Total Security 2010 Beta 3 does not be... |
19 June 2009
09:56 GMT |
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor Bitdefender warn of a new malware-distribution campaign that attempts to pass a computer trojan as open source antivirus software. Once installed on the computer, the malware directs browser requests to Paypal, Abbey and Halifax to phishing pages. E-banking customers should... |
11 June 2009
08:15 GMT |
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With less than a month away from the launch of the first beta, BitDefender releases the second one for the Total Security suite. The application has undergone some changes during this short period thanks to the user experience and feedback based on testing the first public beta. At the moment there is no kit availab... |
27 May 2009
11:06 GMT |
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2009 is just about to start presenting the security suites from the various vendors around the world. With just a couple of months prior to launching the final product, BitDefender will offer later today a public beta of their system protecting suite, BitDefender Total Security 2010. This is the first beta and from w... |
13 May 2009
09:35 GMT |
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Following the disclosure of an alleged SQL injection vulnerability affecting the news.bitdefender.com website, the antivirus vendor has released the results of its internal investigation. The most important thing, according to the company, is that no sensitive data has been compromised.A white-hat hacker calling hims... |
23 February 2009
10:29 GMT |
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The Romanian hacker going by the handle of "unu" has announced a new SQL injection vulnerability affecting the website of Bitdefender antivirus. However, this time around the flaw is on the company's main website and not on one maintained by a reseller. During the previous week, a Romanian ethical hacking outfi... |
16 February 2009
04:29 GMT |
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Researchers from the anti-virus vendor BitDefender have come across an innovative piece of malware that hides itself and functions as a Firefox extension. The malicious add-on is a trojan that monitors user activity on numerous banking sites and steals the login credentials. In order to fly under the radar, this troj... |
5 December 2008
04:28 GMT |
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BitDefender has released a Mac version of the next iteration of its popular antivirus program. BitDefender 2009 for Mac is free to download and evaluate on Intel machines running Mac OS X 10.4.6 or later.The company says that “BitDefender Antivirus 2009 for Mac OS (Beta 1) is a superior software package,”... |
27 October 2008
03:28 GMT |
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BitDefender has decided to publish a list with the ten elements considered to be the most important in users' fight against malware. All the recommendations have the same bedrock – caution, which can save one a lot of trouble. The first measure has to do with the fact that no one should base thei... |
29 August 2008
09:30 GMT |
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Although the Olympics ended this Sunday, the malware employed by attackers, using Olympic-related headlines, is still causing damage. “News” stories about the most popular athletes still linger among other spam messages that are continuously sent to sometimes unwary recipients. Michael Phelps, the multi-O... |
27 August 2008
12:03 GMT |
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BitDefender has unveiled a new spam method employed by attackers to deliver an "extremely dangerous" trojan, as the company classified the malware. The hijackers use the name of FedEx, the famous company that, among other things, works in the currier shipping business. Pretending to be part of the company’s sta... |
27 August 2008
11:57 GMT |
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People are often secretive when asked about the problems they encounter when on the web and not always opened to discuss their fears and concerns regarding this matter. Also, questionnaires that may actually help security solutions companies improve their products face public indifference, which makes these companies... |
21 August 2008
11:26 GMT |
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Malware which threatens the global network of computers is so diverse that top-10 malicious programs only account for nearly 30% of the market. BitDefender has released a chart with the most "annoying" trojans and other types of software that affect users' machines. "Annoying" because the company itself admitted... |
15 August 2008
12:18 GMT |
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BiDefender has just launched a threat report over the first semester of 2008, which shows that the biggest threat to Romanians' security have been trojans. Seven out of the ten most dangerous malware the researchers found hiding behind what seemed to be legitimate applications were represented by this type of ma... |
14 August 2008
10:08 GMT |
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Spammers radically changed their methods from what they used last year. If, at the end of June 2007, 60% of spammers used images in order to make people swallow the bait, the percentage dropped to 3% at the end of June 2008. On the other hand, after conducting a global study, BitDefender researchers noticed the reviv... |
1 August 2008
10:25 GMT |
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At the end of June, on the 27th to be more precise, the movie Wanted was launched all over the world, bringing Angelina Jolie back into the public eye. BitDefender, company that specializes in providing security software solutions, has found out that spam messages have surfaced claiming to show adult footage of Ange... |
18 July 2008
06:02 GMT |
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SoftWin has just launched BitDefender Total Security 2009 Beta, the latest attempt of the company supposed to keep users' computers safer than anytime before. The suite contains numerous security tools, starting with anti-virus and anti-spyware and ending with anti-phishing utilities, firewall and anti-spam filt... |
26 May 2008
04:13 GMT |
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If you work in the military and think your email is safe, think again. A rather large scheme has been recently detected by security researchers at the Romanian company BitDefender. The company's head of AV Research, Sorin Dudea, has declared "It's not every day that you stumble on the workings of an honest-... |
6 May 2008
10:49 GMT |
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Users of BitDefender Antivirus 2008 are asked to update their security application as soon as possible because a new security vulnerability was discovered, according to several reports. Security company Secunia, which rated the flaw as not critical, said that while the vulnerability was confirmed in BitDefender Antiv... |
29 April 2008
07:52 GMT |
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Several BitDefender products are affected by a bdelev.dll ActiveX control double free vulnerability, SecurityFocus informed today. BitDefender Total Security 2008, BitDefender Internet Security 2008 and BitDefender Antivirus 2008, they are all affected by the same vulnerability. In order to be able to exploit an affe... |
14 December 2007
05:45 GMT |
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There are a lot of antivirus technologies out there, most of them sustaining that their features are the best on the market and more efficient than the rivals'. Some say Kaspersky is the best, others think McAfee is better, while numerous users choose Norton Antivirus as the leader. A recent study published by s... |
5 December 2007
08:52 GMT |
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BitDefender Internet Security 2008 and BitDefender Antivirus 2008, two popular security technologies, are now available to the residents of the United States through OfficeMax and its 860 retail stores across the country. BitDefender is one of the top solutions when it comes to computer security as it offers numerous... |
26 November 2007
09:36 GMT |
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Since it's accessible via a web-browser, BitDefender Online Scanner is pretty useful when an infection managed to reach your computer and affect the data stored on your drives. But this doesn't necessarily mean the service is also 100 percent safe as a new vulnerability was reported today by Security Focus.... |
21 November 2007
03:05 GMT |
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BitDefender, one of the most popular names on the IT security market, has been approved for compliance with Red Hat's OS, the Bucharest-based company announced today. What does this mean? Well, from now on, we'll know for sure that BitDefender Security for Mail Servers and BitDefender Security for Samba are... |
13 November 2007
02:24 GMT |
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Security company BitDefender announced today that its spam filters managed to discover and block an impressive campaign of unsolicited email messages which are usually concerning Ron Paul, one of the US Presidential candidates. According to BitDefender, the messages are coming from multiple countries and were all blo... |
30 October 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Security company BitDefender rolled out a new virus definition for its antivirus technology in order to discover the malicious files used by attackers to exploit the reported vulnerabilities in Apple's iPhones. In case you missed the news, it was said that an attacker can use a dangerous TIFF file in order to ex... |
24 October 2007
10:46 GMT |
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BitDefender is one of the largest anti-virus developers out there, providing users with some of the best solutions to keep their machines secure. They're advancing high on the anti-virus market and they're expanding, now having offices in five countries. But the news is that they're opening an office i... |
9 October 2007
10:26 GMT |
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Intego, that specializes in Macintosh security had released last week their newest product - VirusBarrier X4 Dual Protection and Internet Secuity Barrier Antispam Edition Dual Protection. Both of these suites include BitDefender's latest 2008 versions of their security software. This is a pretty good security so... |
1 October 2007
04:10 GMT |
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This is the hot top 10 viruses, containing the old Netsky.P that is still holding up against Storm and with the Kobcka Trojan as a new-entry. Many viruses pop up every day, others fade away, while still others plague us for a very very long time. The Netsky.P is dubbed as 'ancient' by the BitDefender expert... |
13 September 2007
08:15 GMT |
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BitDefender has just been tested by security experts and it detected 99.51% of malware! This is a huge percent, these guys are getting close to perfection! Way to go, BitDefender!I still cannot believe it, they were close to 100% and they were tested by Germany's AV-test, so this is great. The other 29 anti-viru... |
31 August 2007
06:31 GMT |
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