A new kind of Trojan was discovered recently which targets only Japanese file-sharers. When executed the Trojan displays manga-like images with a reminder which differs depending on which image is displayed. The text however looks similar and always asks the user to stop using P2P networks. One of the messages for instance reads “”Ah, I see you are using P2P again…if you don’t stop in 0.5 seconds, I’m going to kill you.” Talk about a threat boy, jeeze.”
Test your Anti-virus program
Do you know that your anti-virus solution is working ? You could try to test your anti-virus program against the EICAR (European Expert Group for IT-Security) test file to see if it reacts the way it should. All you need to do is create the testfile and scan it with your virus scanner. If the scanner detects something it is working as intended, if it does not you should consider changing immediately to a more reliable one.
AVG-Antivirus will continue to be free
I received some emails in the last days of visitors to my site who thought that AVG free would cease to exit on 15. of January 2007. I would like to clear the confusion right away by saying that on this date support for AVG free 7.1 will end but AVG free 7.5 by Grisoft will be available and support is guaranteed. Or as the Grisoft themselves announced it:
Antivirus Test
Everyone seems to favor a different antivirus software and its hard to make a choice because of this. A little test from the guys at overclockers.com might help you in your decision. They tested Desktop and Online Antivirus solutions and give recommendations at the end.
Astalavista Top 10 Freeware Tools
Astalavista Security Group have a beta page up that lists top freeware software products in various categories including Data Recovery, Anti Virus-Tools, Firewall and IDS and Anti-Spyware. The list contains some of the freeware tools that I already wrote about but also some new ones that might interest you.
Anatomy of a failed virus attack
Jim Kissel of Open Source Migrations Limited wrote a nice article about a malicious email attack he encountered recently. He analyzes the email received and gives tips to secure Thunderbird, the free email program they use.
Clam Win Antivirus
After a lot of people told me that I forgot one of the best anti-virus freeware products out there I decided to take a look at Clam Win to get a better judgement on the claims made. The good thing besides that its free is that it´s also Open Source which makes it more transparent than the rest of the free antivirus programs.
