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Nations With Low Malware Rates Have Better ISPs

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Aug

2011

Countries with good national security teams (CERTs) and diligent ISPs show consistently lower rates of malware infection than those states that adopt a less paternalistic approach to security, a new analysis by Microsoft researchers has suggested. According to statistics drawn from the company’s widely-used Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), the countries which have shown notably […]

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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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MSRT June 2011: Targeting Yimfoca

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Jun

2011

This month’s MSRT families included Win32/Rorpian (an autorun worm that exploits a vulnerability in shortcut files), Win32/Nuqel (another autorun worm that spreads via network drives, removable drives, and instant messaging programs) and Win32/Yimfoca. The last, Yimfoca, is a prevalent IM worm that uses common instant messaging applications and social networking websites to spread. It also affects […]

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