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The original AppCompat (solving a 20-year-old mystery for me)

13

Aug

2013

DOS v5.0, released in 1991, introduced the concept of DOS loading “high”. That is, into the high memory area – that special 64kb area at the top of the first megabyte of memory.As a result of this change, programs now loaded to a much lower address in memory than they did before. This change also exposed […]

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New ZeroDay: Zbot variant spreads like fire

01

Aug

2013

If you receive an e-mail supposedly from the ‘Bank of America’, with an alleged expenses report attached, make sure you do not open it. Delete it at once. The subject of the e-mail states that this is a ‘”statement of expenses” report notification, with a matching message inside, tagged with the ‘Bank of America’ logo […]

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File decryption available to Dr.Web users only

19

Jun

2013

Doctor Web has announced that, beginning June 19, its free service to restore files encrypted with malware from the Encoder Trojan family is available only to users of Dr.Web products. This is due to the huge number of encoder Trojan-related requests that have overloaded the company’s anti-virus laboratory and technical support service. Doctor Web’s technical […]

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