Malware activity exploiting Autorun on Windows computers has been generating quite a few calls to ESET support lines lately, reminding us that old infection techniques seldom die and USB flash drives can still be an effective means of getting malicious code onto a computer. USB drives can be used to infect computers that automatically execute […]
The first month of this leap year did not offer any major surprises in terms of information security. However, Doctor Web’s anti-virus laboratory received samples of several new banking Trojan horses that turned out to be rather unusual. In addition, a new technique for distributing malicious links was discovered. Virus threats in January The file […]
Here’s some good news in the ongoing fight against Windows-based malware – it appears that there has been a significant drop in the number of computers being infected by malware which exploits the Windows Autorun feature. Autorun is the technology which makes a program start automatically when you insert a CD or USB stick into […]
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