Getting beyond the myth

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Another rogue anti-virus (what do you know?) called “System Security”, which provides anything but security for an infected system, is lurking for unknowing users (are there still any out there?). Also in this weeks review is one of those nasty IM worms that send messenger spam which nobody knew where it came from.

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Security researchers Nitin and Vipin Kumar have released the code for their recently-announced boot-time rootkit - and it's a pretty interesting piece of work.

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Changing User Account Control Settings to prevent malicious code injections.

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Another wave of online games password stealing Trojans has been detected by BitDefender Labs. This time sneakier then usual, having rootkit capabilities. Adware is not left behind either. Many new versions of Trojan.Swizzor are in the wild, all detected by BitDefender under a generic signature called Trojan.Swizzor.4

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In the previous two weeks we scrutinized the best practices for keeping mobile computing devices and corporate networks safe. Now it is time to see how to safeguard the highly valuable asset of information.

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The new year was relatively calm, with few major security incidents. The smooth Internet experience users could enjoy was partly due to the fact that Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system was safer than its predecessors, but partly due to the fact that the antivirus industry was watching.

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Most of the security issues in 1994 were triggered by the increased popularity of removable media, especially the more and more affordable CD-ROMs. Such storage devices acted as a vector of infection, as computer users burnt not only important data, but also infected files.

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