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Hackers don’t discriminate: Viruses attack all platform users

Saturday, February 25. 2012

Historically, few viruses have been written to attack Mac-based operating systems. But as the popularity of these devices has increased, so has the popularity of Mac-targeted malware. Regardless of whether your organization uses Windows-based PCs or Macs or a mix of both, you need a solution that provides protection for all operating systems.

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We can all send threat into ESET Labs - this is how easy it is to help

Wednesday, January 11. 2012

As everyone knows, no single protection system is 100% - and even with a layered defense, it is possible for a threat to arrive on your PC (or Mac) without detection - the final step between you an POTENTIAL infections, is you!

This very morning, I received just such a threat - it arrives in an email and was not picked up by ESET as an email threat. The email came to a publicly available email address - and it there were some obvious clues that this was not a legitimate email...

a suspicious email arrives

Clues in the email:

1. from a company, business, or person we didn't recognize
2. to a publicly available email address we only expect email on a particular topic (and the topic was not correct)
3. a zipped attachment included with the email

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We can all send threat into ESET Labs - this is how easy it is to help

Wednesday, January 11. 2012

As everyone knows, no single protection system is 100% - and even with a layered defense, it is possible for a threat to arrive on your PC (or Mac) without detection - the final step between you an POTENTIAL infections, is you!

This very morning, I received just such a threat - it arrives in an email and was not picked up by ESET as an email threat. The email came to a publicly available email address - and it there were some obvious clues that this was not a legitimate email...

a suspicious email arrives

Clues in the email:

1. from a company, business, or person we didn't recognize
2. to a publicly available email address we only expect email on a particular topic (and the topic was not correct)
3. a zipped attachment included with the email

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The Ramnit worm steals more than 45,000 Facebook credentials

Saturday, January 7. 2012

Facebook users ought to be more careful about their online security after the birth of the Ramnit worm. For the unknown, Ramnit was first discovered in April 2010 when the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) described Ramnit as “Win32/Ramnit is a family of multi-component malware that infects Windows executable files, Microsoft Office files and HTML files. Win32/Ramnit spreads to removable drives, steals sensitive information such as saved FTP credentials and browser cookies. The malware may also open a backdoor to await instructions from a remote attacker.” More than 17.3 % of malicious software infections trace their origin to the Ramnit worm, according to Symantec.

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