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MSRT August ’11: FakeSysdef

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Aug

2011

This month’s Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) includes Win32/FakeSysdef – one of the most prevalent trojans affecting our support groups over the past few months. We’ve discussed this threat in previous blogs (1, 2), and turn to this excerpt from our encyclopedia for some more detail: Win32/FakeSysdef is a family of programs that claim to […]

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Are MBR infections back in fashion? (Infographic)

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Aug

2011

A Master Boot Record (MBR) is an area of the hard disk (usually the first sector) used by a computer to perform start up operations. It is one of the first things to be read and executed by the computer hardware when a computer is powered on, even before the operating system itself. As far […]

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Android threat trend shows that criminals are thinking outside the box

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Jul

2011

A quick online search would reveal a number of articles declaring any one of the last few years as being the “year of mobile malware.” Conversely, these searches also reveal that claim that the same years are not going to be the year of mobile malware. These search results go back as far as the […]

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