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June virus activity review: number of threats for Android increased tenfold since January

04

Jul

2011

The first summer month in 2011 turned out to be rich in new threats to information security. Doctor Web virus analysts found more than 40 malicious programs for the operating system Android (and only one for iOS), which indicates a steady increase in the platform’s popularity among virus writers. Compared with the beginning of 2011, […]

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Windows Rootkit Requires Reinstall?

29

Jun

2011

In a ComputerWorld article Gregg Kaiser cites a Microsoft engineer as saying that the trojan that Microsoft calls “Popureb” digs so deeply that the only way to eradicate it is to reinstall the operating system.If you read the Microsoft blog Feng didn’t actually say that this is the only way to eradicate the trojan. In […]

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Criminals gain control over Mac with BackDoor.Olyx

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Jun

2011

Doctor Web-the leading Russian developer of anti-virus software -informs users that its virus analysts have discovered a new threat to computers running Mac OS X. BackDoor.Olyx is the second known backdoor for the operating system. If a machine is compromised by the malware, attackers get an opportunity to covertly control the computer. The backdoor receives […]

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