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.
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BitDefender CTO Bogdan Dumitru said: “BitDefender Labs [...]

F-Secure Corporation
F-Secure and Sony Ericsson partner to deliver Mobile Security for UIQ
Helsinki, Finland January 23rd - F-Secure Corporation, the global leader in
providing security as a service through mobile operators and Internet Service
Providers, is today announcing the availability of its Mobile Security
product for the UIQ platform. F-Secure and Sony Ericsson are partnering on
supplying mobile security to [...]

Russian antivirus company Kaspersky has launched a hosted email-filtering service.
Kaspersky Hosted Security Services, launched on Monday, is an anti-spam and anti-malware service aimed at small to medium-sized businesses.
David Em, senior technology consultant for Kaspersky, said the hosted service will use the vendor’s anti-malware engine to scan email. The technology comprises an antivirus engine plus behavioural [...]

I see viruses. When an antivirus scanner reports a file as being infected, when in fact it is not, that reporting is considered a false positive. False positives aren’t confined to antivirus software either, as Scott Berinato discusses in the article, The Software That Cried Wolf. Indeed, false postives in any security software can be [...]

Over the past month a new type of malicious software has emerged, called a master boot record rootkit.
Over the past month, a new type of malicious software has emerged, using a decades-old technique to hide itself from antivirus software.
The malware, called Trojan.Mebroot by Symantec, installs itself on the first part of the computer’s hard drive [...]

Seen more as a prank than an actual threat, a Trojan horse for the Apple iPhone, first reported on Saturday, has already come and gone. Still, users should be on the look out for a package called "iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep," described as something you need to install before updating to the new 1.1.3 firmware. [...]

Security firms warned users this week to watch out for the Storm Worm after online fraudsters revised the malicious software with a Christmas hook.
The fraudsters behind the crime-focused program began sending out a massive wave of e-mail messages over the weekend with subject lines such as "Season Greetings" or "Looking for something hot for this [...]

Grisoft seeks info on companies that promoted counterfeit AVG antivirus products through sponsored text ads.
AVG said Wednesday that it has filed subpoenas under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act against Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), and Internet domain registrar GoDaddy.
The antivirus company, also known as Grisoft, is seeking the identities [...]

Kaspersky Lab has announced the release of Kaspersky® Anti-Virus Mobile Enterprise Edition, designed to protect corporate users of mobile devices from malware and SMS spam.
Preventing malicious programs from penetrating the corporate network is one of the main IT security tasks facing companies today. However, traditional solutions fail to provide system administrators with the ability [...]

Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC: 16.85, +0.57, +3.50%) today announced it has earned an unprecedented 35th consecutive VB100 Award from Virus Bulletin. While many other security vendors failed the December 2007 tests, Symantec was one of only two vendors to receive a perfect detection score for all test sets, including "in the wild" malware, and today’s [...]