AVG used to be THE anti-virus software a few years ago, especially with it being the first major vendor offering a free solution for home users.
If you asked any techie back in 2002 which AV should you use, the answer would invariably be AVG free (or perhaps Panda).
After that AVG just got bloated, slow and [...]
It seems like spammers, scammers, phishers and now malware authors are starting to leverage blogs more and more, especially Blogger/Blogspot as Google tend to be quite slow in responding and sometimes don’t respond at all.
This makes it an ideal platform for dodgy behaviour as the crooks have adequate lead time to con/infect people before they [...]
More Google News this week after Google Launches Online Security & Malware Blog, now they have acquired a web security startup called GreenBorder.
Google Inc. said on Tuesday it has bought Internet security startup GreenBorder Technologies Inc., which creates secure connections to protect e-mail and Web users from malicious or unwanted computer code.
Terms of the deal, [...]
No surprise really? Microsoft and they monopoly strategies, anti-competitive behaviour, nothing new really is it?
Microsoft and its security rivals are feuding over a key piece of Windows Vista real estate.
The fight is over the display of technology that helps Vista owners manage the security tools on their PC. Symantec, McAfee, Check Point Software Technologies and [...]
Ah, here at Darknet we have always been a fan of Sophos and the way they operate, a very efficient company and good to see good technical products still coming out of the UK!
Another good move by them, they have decided to offer a free rootkit detection tool called Sophos Anti-Rootkit..Yah I know, not a [...]
Malware herders are speeding up, the first wave is already here for MS06-40.
It’s basically a variant of some old malware suited to the new vulnerability. Same old story then, same packer, technique, new exploit.
Same as the days of autorooters.
It’s basically the Mocbot trojan that was used in the Zotob worm attack in August 2005.
The first [...]
Today sees the launch of “OneCare”, Microsofts “secrity solution”. Combining firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware in to one handy package…. but would you trust it?
I guess many people will, and over time we will find out if its a well spent $49.99 or not, but for me? I don’t think so. Microsoft do many things, but [...]
The shocking statistic first, “56% of consumers do not have active anti-virus on their PCs”, ok not that shocking but still a bit worrying. Allthough asking if your average user doesn’t protect themselves on the internet conjures up images of the pope squatting in the woods.
The basic F-Secure anti-virus product protects against viruses and [...]
It’s gone round and round and round, now cars have Bluetooth, that they can get viruses like Cabir, I’m sorry but if an Anti-virus company like F-Secure can’t infect a car with a virus, I don’t have much hope for the others. The rumours came from a Lexus story in SCMagazine (The story is no [...]
What a surprise, McAfee spreading FUD to sell more copies of their bloated AV software?
Apart from the fact I think the whole AV model is flawed i.e. it can only protect against things the AV companies 1) know about 2) have written a definition for and 3) have delivered the definition to you – That’s [...]
