Posts Tagged ‘security essentials’

Brazilian Masquerade

Feb

2013

What do you see here?A free AV product protecting a Windows XP machine, right? No, actually it?s malware ? a Brazilian Trojan banker coming via email and then using a masquerade to stay in the system. The malware is 386Kb only, written in Delphi, and comes via an email together with a bunch of many […]

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Key lessons learned from the latest test results

Jan

2013

AV-Test just published the results of their most recent antimalware vendor testing, and they didn’t grant Microsoft Security Essentials and Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection their “AV-Test Certified” status. We conduct a rigorous review of the results whenever test results warrant it. We take the protection of our customers very seriously, and the investments we make to do […]

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Fake AV 3 years later: still there, still not blocked

Dec

2012

You may want to open the first blog post we did on Fake AV in December 2009, three years ago, side by side with this post. See if you can spot the differences… fake antivirus pages in 2012 are nearly the same as they were three years ago and most AV solutions still fail to […]

Category Security Written by Zscaler Research 0 Comments

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