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MSRT June Release, taking care of a few worm families

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Jun

2011

In this month’s MSRT release, we added three new threat families to the detection capability. One of these three is Win32/Nuqel, which has been around for four years since its first variant was found. More than 60 variants of Win32/Nuqel have been identified in the wild. This worm spreads itself via network shares, removable drives […]

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Fake Windows Updates Are Easy to Avoid

11

Jun

2011

Our friends (and competitors) at Sophos blogged about a new threat that poses as a Windows Update and then infects unsuspecting users with a fake antivirus product.The update appears to be very real and is tricking users. While my colleagues at Sophos offer excellent advice to help people protect themselves (as I believe we do also), […]

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Ambler trojan tries to darken your day

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May

2011

There’s been talk of a new threat called “Sunspot“, which we detect as Win32/Ambler.A (click to read more in our encyclopedia). Like several others in the AV industry, we feel that this threat is not a new ‘crimeware kit’, and is instead just a new variant of a much older threat known as Ambler (also […]

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