Archive for February, 2008

Hacked Antivirus Site Delivers a Virus

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

The Web site for Indian antivirus vendor AvSoft Technologies has been hacked and is being used to install malicious software on visitors’ computers, security researchers said.
The download section of AvSoft’s S-cop Web site hosts the malicious code, according to Roger Thompson, chief research officer with security vendor AVG. "They let one of their pages get [...]

Firefox 3 Beta 3 ready for download

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Mozilla has made the Firefox 3 Beta 3 available for download, but has warned that it is intended for " testing purposes only" and is aimed at developers rather than "casual users".
New features include improved security in the form of better presentation of website identity, malware protection, stricter SSL error pages and antivirus integration in [...]

New Free Malware Scanner And Cleaner

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

News in this morning from malware specialists BitDefender that the company has updated its free online antivirus scanner to incorporate the latest antispyware functionality.
The modifications include a redesigned interface and notably increased levels of detection to help you seek and destroy those evil viruses and spyware files.
Latest malware protection
BitDefender CTO Bogdan Dumitru said: “BitDefender Labs [...]