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Kaspersky Lab released a warning for MySpace and Facebook users, regarding two new versions of a worm, Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.a. and Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b respectively, that put the security of those who have accounts on the two web services at risk. The MySpace worm creates some catchy phrases that are sent to... |
2 August 2008
05:36 GMT |
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Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 8.0.0.454 Final version has just been released. It is a tool that is presented by the team of developers as an unmatched security solution for home and home office. The Kaspersky product offers protection from viruses, Trojans and worms, scans the Internet traffic, the email and insta... |
1 August 2008
08:58 GMT |
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It has come to light that this past weekend, the official Malaysian web page of the internationally renowned security software provider Kaspersky, as well as the S.E.S. online shop web page, have been successfully hacked. A Turkish cracker going by the name of "m0sted" managed to hack the previously mentioned web pag... |
21 July 2008
08:37 GMT |
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Kris Kaspersky, software engineering expert, security consultant and technical writer, will demonstrate at the upcoming HITB (Hack in the Box) Security Conference how an attacker can use JavaScript and TCP/IP packets to remotely exploit a flaw in the Intel processor. The conference will be held in Malaysia over a pe... |
14 July 2008
09:25 GMT |
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On a home front, Kaspersky software has been doing rather well recently, which has determined the company to expand. At the recent 10th annual partner conference held in St. Petersburg, Kaspersky let its worldwide partners in on the expansion plans, which include opening an office in Australia. Eugene Kasperky, as c... |
8 July 2008
06:11 GMT |
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Security software provider Kaspersky has just released a top 20 of the viruses that plagued the web last month. The results were not astounding, with the generic Trojan Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.q still leading the board. As a matter of fact, out of the total 20 malicious programs, 15 were Trojans. In regard to the co... |
3 July 2008
04:45 GMT |
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A freeware file recovery tool is more than enough to render useless an otherwise unbreakable piece of malware which is designed to encrypt files on compromised computers with a RSA 1.024 bits algorithm, and hold them captive until the user agrees to pay the attacker for the decrypting tool. Detected as Win32/Gpcode.G... |
17 June 2008
10:33 GMT |
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Kaspersky Lab's Anti-Spam 3.0 has recently received the anti-spam certification from ICSA Labs which underlines the fact that the application is really efficient when it comes to blocking unsolicited email traffic. The ICSA Labs certification is only granted to security applications that manage to discover more ... |
25 April 2008
17:56 GMT |
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Kaspersky is making headway with the development of its latest iteration of antivirus products. Both Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Kaspersky Internet Security have reached Release Candidate stage, which means that the RTM is on the horizon. While KAV and KIS 8.0 are still in testing, the Russian-based security developer i... |
31 March 2008
14:56 GMT |
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As per usual, every month the security companies release a Top Ten Most [something] malware chart, and when it was Kaspersky's turn to present the world with its findings, the people there watched in awe how, for the first time ever, the virus branch of malicious programs was dethroned by adware.The situation is... |
6 March 2008
10:18 GMT |
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Kaspersky Lab, one of the world's most appreciated antivirus solutions provider, announced the release of Kaspersky Mobile Security 7.0, a new product that offers integrated protection for smartphones running Windows Mobile and Symbian. Kaspersky Mobile Security 7.0 comes with powerful protection for data stored... |
29 February 2008
10:57 GMT |
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Windows Server 2008 is barely out the door, and Russian antivirus maker Kaspersky is already good to go when it comes down to protecting the server platform. According to Kaspersky, its antivirus solution Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0, for Windows Server Enterprise Edition, is the first to cross the line of the Windows Se... |
28 February 2008
07:30 GMT |
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This one goes out to all the remaining dial-up users all over the world. Be warned! Some cyber criminals will single you just because of it and you don't want to have to fix the damage they'll do. Right now you have a bull's-eye on your balls, because they'll hit you where it hurts most. The lates... |
7 February 2008
15:06 GMT |
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There are various factors that come into play when security solutions are concerned. Antivirus products come with a variety of facets, from the frequency of virus signatures update to a low rate of false positives, and from performance to keeping a low profile as a background process. Well, one of the aspects involve... |
28 December 2007
10:37 GMT |
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According to Microsoft, Window Vista is the most secure Windows operating system available on the market. The Redmond company has now been shy about downplaying the relevance of previous Windows iterations in order to push Vista to the foreground in terms of security. It is in fact an old drum that Microsoft has been... |
27 December 2007
12:12 GMT |
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Kaspersky has taken a bite out of the core of Windows Vista and Windows XP. Following the release and implementation of faulty signature updates, several versions of the security solutions from the Russian antivirus maker have taken a swing at the heart of Microsoft's Windows client and have managed to take out ... |
21 December 2007
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A post on the Kaspersky Lab forum revealed a problem with the latest virus definitions addressed to Kaspersky Antivirus, as numerous computers that updated their security tools got crashed. Kaspersky Lab didn't release any official statement yet, so we're all expecting an explanation. Until then, you can tr... |
14 December 2007
09:05 GMT |
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The latest tests, conducted by AV-Comparatives.org, awarded Kaspersky Antivirus 7.0 and ESET Nod32 Antivirus with the highest certification level, Advanced+. This means that the security solutions have the most efficient functions, when it comes to detection of new threats bundled with a minimum percentage of false ... |
11 December 2007
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The latest tests, conducted by Virus Bulletin over 32 antivirus technologies, revealed that 17 products, including Trend Micro, Kaspersky, Norman and Sophos, failed to protect Windows 2000, "The Register" reported today. The research was supposed to give the antiviruses the VB100 certification after they being tested... |
5 December 2007
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Microsoft's security solutions are newcomers to a multi-billion dollar market, which is saturated by products from household names, such as Symantec, McAfee, Sophos and Kaspersky. At the same time, the Redmond company itself is making its first timid steps into the security industry, which is largely charted ter... |
5 December 2007
09:30 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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OK, that's smart. Seriously, have you ever thought that you can infect your computer by installing a brand new HDD on your computer? No more spam messages, no more malicious links, no more nothing. Just pay for a Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 and you're infected. Simple as that. But how can this happe... |
12 November 2007
03:47 GMT |
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Kaspersky signed a deal with Bit9 Inc., "the leading provider of application control and device control solutions" in a move meant to make its security technologies more powerful when it comes to computer protection. Bit9 owns a 4 billion files database including "commercial applications, open-source software, driver... |
8 November 2007
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Kaspersky Lab has announced that anti-phishing databases provided by PhishTank have been incorporated into the Anti-Phishing module of Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0. Just the other day, I had an article about PhishTank that reported the general situation of phishing. It's great to see that experts cooperate wi... |
11 October 2007
10:27 GMT |
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This used to be just another one of those cases in which security software, instead of making you safer, actually made you more vulnerable - I hate it when that happens. A few weeks ago, I had an article in which I wrote that Kaspersky is a firm that offers reliable security software; well, an important part of deliv... |
10 October 2007
03:58 GMT |
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Remember how I said that the web is changing and so is the threat landscape? Well, that's true, except for one thing though - NetSky seems to be the most widely spread virus out there and nobody can take that title away from it. "Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.q", as it has been dubbed by Kaspersky experts, is the most... |
2 October 2007
05:16 GMT |
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You can't always tell which is the best anti-virus for your machine, as all the vendors will claim they deliver top-notch solutions, that they are leaders on the market and all that. Also, you often get facts stating that in some test a certain anti-virus ranked first, but they rarely state what competition they... |
1 October 2007
03:41 GMT |
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Kaspersky has always been described as one of the top antivirus solutions and even it if usually manages to crush the competition, you have to keep an eye on the security reports released every once in a while. Today, security company Secunia published an advisory as a new glitch was discovered in the kilf.sys driver... |
24 September 2007
15:51 GMT |
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It sure is important to have AV protection, I know I said it a million times before, but what happens when your anti-virus becomes a liability? Well, if your AV is vulnerable, then so is your machine. What's the use of having a huge virus signature database if the program has a flaw that would enable a hacker to... |
18 September 2007
11:09 GMT |
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AOL Active Virus Shield is a security tool provided by AOL that offered the users the possibility of installing the famous Kaspersky solution. I talked about this feature using the Past Tense because it seems that AOL quietly replaced the Kaspersky antivirus solution with McAfee Virus Scan. What's most interesti... |
10 September 2007
10:47 GMT |
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Anybody who is anybody in the security industry delivers products superior to Windows Live OneCare from Microsoft. At least this is the clear indication of the latest round of AV-Comparatives tests from Andreas Clementi. Microsoft OneCare 1.6 was topped by security solutions from household names on the security marke... |
4 September 2007
10:23 GMT |
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Kaspersky has deemed Zango applications as threats and every time a user with KAV wants to install a Zango program, the anti-virus says it's malware. Surely, this did not please Zango, as it affects good marketing... so they took action.Zango sued Kaspersky in a try to make them remove Zango software from the Ka... |
31 August 2007
11:12 GMT |
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Kaspersky Senior Virus Analyst Alexander Gostev wrote a report on malware evolution for the April-June period of this year. It has appeared on Viruslist. It seems that hackers have stopped bothering with writing new types of malware. Sure, there have been some rather tough viruses in this period, but none was anythin... |
30 August 2007
08:33 GMT |
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In the latest anti-virus comparatives performed by AV-Test, Microsoft's security solutions exploded to an over 95% detection rate, topping household names such as Sophos, Nod32, McAfee and Trend Micro. According to the comparison put together by AV-Test, Microsoft came in tenth place out of a collection of no le... |
27 August 2007
11:06 GMT |
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A famous quote says that in order to protect your computer, you must install an antivirus solution, a firewall or an application that contains both of them and is able to protect your computer. And I agree with that, but the recent security notifications are not so encouraging as that quote is. At this time, the Inte... |
23 August 2007
06:57 GMT |
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There is absolutely no difference between Mac OS X and the Windows operating systems in the threat arena. The claim belongs to security company Symantec, which joined Russian anti-virus maker Kaspersky in beating the old drum of Windows vs. Mac OS X as the most insecure platform. Although there is no panacea for user... |
23 August 2007
06:21 GMT |
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After the first six months on the market for Windows Vista, security company Kaspersky has presented its conclusion related to the operating system. Vista is safe, for now... But safe nonetheless. Unless the latest operating system from Microsoft falls victim to legacy Windows threats, Vista users can breathe just as... |
9 August 2007
10:25 GMT |
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On the 20th of June this year, both Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus have received the Certified for Vista logo from Microsoft. This only confirms what most Kaspersky users already know: Kaspersky is one of the most powerful and reliable anti virus-application on the market today. This new rec... |
31 July 2007
14:31 GMT |
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Microsoft developed OneCare as the main security solution for the Windows operating system, but it was proved several times that this application might not be able to protect the user. That's why most of the security companies able to develop powerful products compatible with Microsoft's operating system tu... |
29 July 2007
11:35 GMT |
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Russian based anti-virus maker Kaspersky applauded the fact that its latest security products Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0 are now fully certified for Windows Vista. The news comes as both security solutions are still in the testing phase. Kaspersky has failed to reveal the official av... |
23 July 2007
10:46 GMT |
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An interesting story attracts the Chinese media's attention after Kaspersky filed a complaint against the local rival Rising and accused the company of no respect for the country's users. It all started a long time ago when Kaspersky flagged some of the Rising security tools as dangerous and advised users t... |
10 July 2007
10:10 GMT |
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Symantec is continuously brought in the spotlights and this is not due to its famous security solutions but to some funny incidents that took place at a recent conference at the company. As Virus Bulletin reported, it all happened at a special event where a Symantec presenter tried to introduce a new solution and des... |
2 July 2007
09:58 GMT |
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Kaspersky Antivirus, one of the most popular security solutions for our computers, proved us again that it's hard to name a program the best in its category after the security companies discovered a vulnerability in its engine. Although security company Secunia rated it as not critical, it is a sign that our com... |
12 June 2007
10:56 GMT |
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Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 is just one of the latest security solutions to be added to the list of the products certified by US laboratory ICSA Labs. Microsoft has referred to ICSA as a top independent certification authority in the security industry when it received certification for Windows Live OneCare 1.5. K... |
11 June 2007
06:30 GMT |
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There is a dark side to Windows Vista... One not advertised by Microsoft, one less applauded and that is not in accordance or in tune with the $500 million's worth of Wow marketing campaign. In mid May 2007, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates attended the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2007 in Los A... |
30 May 2007
10:27 GMT |
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Apple's Mac OS X is the next victim in line for the operating system's slaughter according to Russian security developer Kaspersky; however, the platform from the Cupertino-based company will fail miserably to outperform Windows Vista. Kaspersky predicts that Microsoft's latest operating system will ta... |
30 May 2007
08:49 GMT |
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A recent antivirus testing session conducted by AV-Test.org, a German testing group, revealed that the best security solution in the entire world is neither - as we would have expected - Kaspersky nor NOD32, but WebWasher. The study was meant to test the anti-malware functions of 29 security products and require them... |
24 May 2007
12:56 GMT |
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One of the most famous antivirus solutions on the Internet, Kaspersky Antivirus, was recently involved in a false alarm that scared the Chinese users. The security application flagged rsaupd.exe as Trojan.Win32.Inject.av although the executable file is used by Rising Antispyware to update its definitions. According t... |
23 May 2007
13:46 GMT |
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Nokia's Series 60 smartphones have been weakened by a Trojan horse. The virus easily fools mobile phone users to install it, as it is seen as a photo editor or video codec pack by these devices.Russian antivirus maker "Kaspersky Labs" was the first to discover the Trojan that spreads on mobile phones. It is call... |
23 May 2007
10:26 GMT |
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If you want to clean your computer of viruses and the downloadable tools are somehow unavailable, you can always try a free online solution that detects even the latest threats. For example, Kaspersky provides a freeware tool for all users that allows them to scan a file or the entire computer straight from the onlin... |
10 May 2007
10:43 GMT |
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