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It has been another month and we have found some more families that need some special attention that the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is ideal to give. This month we are focused on cleaning up the Win32/Babonock, Win32/Redyms, and Win32/Vesenlosow families due to their recent increase in prevalence. Lately I have been working with […]

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Wecykler is a family of worms, that shares some similarities with the Worm:Win32/Autorun family, in that it that takes advantage of removable drives attached to an infected system in order to propagate to other machines. They target users’ familiarity with the content of drives (files and directories) disguising as directories with existing and catchy names […]

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Shylock malware which spreads via Skype is not the only threat that users should be worried about. We found another worm that takes advantage of Skype to spread copies of itself.Reports of Shylock malware found on certain Skype messages was a hot topic last week. We looked into the related samples and based on our […]

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