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Intel: rootkits have met their match
News It's] similar in concept to what driver signatures do. Integrity Services is good at is detecting changes to protected programs or detecting when a protected program is stopped by something like a virus, worm or rootkit.
[December 14, 2005, 16:10]
What whitelisting can really do for you today!!
Talkback To increase flexibility, especially in the beginning, you can extend the concept of trusted change by implementing a graylist. In such a tightly regulated computing environment, anti-virus and whitelisting programs might not be needed.
[February 2, 2009, 9:00]
New virus first to infect Macromedia Flash
News It's really a proof of concept, as opposed to something that you should lie awake at night worrying about," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for the Abingdon, England-based company. It won't be a very effective spreading method if...
[January 9, 2002, 9:34]
It's a very good virus
Member Review What a concept. Good virus though. I'm a tech so this product will make me some money when people install it and I have to fix it or restore the data after Go Back crashes the MBR. Just use Ghost instead.
[December 26, 2006, 21:56]
Windows PCs threatened by JPEG-handling flaw
News But that said, we haven't seen any proof-of-concept code yet. The severity of the flaw had some security experts worried that a virus that exploits the issue may be on the way. The potential is very high for an attack," said Craig Schmugar, virus...
[September 15, 2004, 9:00]
Vista DRM could hide malware
News A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept program that hackers could use to exploit Windows Vista digital rights management processes to hide malware. The presence of that problem creates a hive of activity with people trying to hijack...
[April 12, 2007, 16:23]
Police ask for more Internet powers
Talkback The concept of counterstrike through aggressive defence presupposes the adoption and use of information technology to produce legitimate and legalised disabling and reasonably destructive effects. For instance, if a virus has been launched by using...
[July 26, 2005, 17:45]
Microsoft launches anti-spam site
Talkback The concept of counterstrike through aggressive defence presupposes the adoption and use of information technology to produce legitimate and legalized disabling and reasonably destructive effects. For instance, if a virus has been launched by using...
[May 30, 2005, 21:09]
Virus jumps from PC to PDA
News The virus is a proof-of-concept bug and was not released in the wild, meaning that it doesn't pose an actual risk for PC and device users. A group of security researchers claims to have found the first virus that can jump to a mobile device after...
[March 1, 2006, 8:45]
Five years ago: Macro viruses spreading like wildfire
News The most prevalent viruses are Word.Concept and Wazzu, both stemming from Word documents. Virus infections are on the rise, tripling in US big business over the last year and growing at a rapid clip here in the UK.
[April 16, 2002, 7:01]
Five years ago: Macro viruses spreading like wildfire
News The most prevalent viruses are Word.Concept and Wazzu, both stemming from Word documents. Virus infections are on the rise, tripling in US big business over the last year and growing at a rapid clip here in the UK.
[April 14, 2002, 7:01]
Mosquito Trojan bites smartphones
News Hot on the heels of the first proof-of-concept smartphone virus, mobile operating system maker Symbian is warning that a Trojan is infecting phones in the wild and sending text messages to premium rate numbers.
[August 10, 2004, 17:25]
Stardust virus lands on OpenOffice
News So far, Stardust is a proof-of-concept virus, which means that it was created to demonstrate that an OpenOffice virus is possible. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have spotted what they believe is the first virus for OpenOffice, the open source rival...
[June 1, 2006, 13:20]
'Thursday' virus upgraded to 'high risk' - part 2
News That probably explains why the Concept macro virus, released in 1995, was at one point the most common computer virus in the world. Not long after, an executable virus (or worm, there's always controversy about what an attack should be called...
[September 3, 1999, 9:05]
VirusScan Wireless review
Reviews The concept is that the virus scanning engine checks the data on your handheld before you synchronise it with your PC. Since a Palm can't store a PC file, we included the test EICAR (European Institute for Computer Anti-virus Research) virus...
[May 3, 2001, 0:00]
New virus hides behind old technology
News This is a proof of concept," he said. A new virus from the Czech Republic has anti-virus software makers rushing to analyse the ability of so-called "files streams" to infect PCs. Eugene Kaspersky, the head of the Russian anti-virus research...
[September 6, 2000, 8:02]
Assembler virus spells trouble for Linux
Talkback This is extending the least required privilege concept. The approach with virus scanners has always been to know what is bad. E.g.when your office program starts formatting your disk because of a macro virus app armours will not allow this action.
[April 10, 2006, 12:44]
Hybris virus: Sleeper hit of 2001
News Antivirus experts believe the author of the virus is the same one who created the Babylonia virus, a concept virus that "phoned home" to a Japanese Web site known as the Source of Chaos and updated itself using files found on the site.
[January 12, 2001, 8:47]
Five years ago: McAfee finds first known Linux virus
Talkback And both Bliss and Stoag viruses were proof of concept viruses. In the June 2004 of Linux Format magazine (LXF54)(www.linuxformat.co.uk) on page 51 is an insert discussing this same subject and they say that MacFee was about a year late in talking...
[August 3, 2004, 4:05]
Smartphone virus threat grows
News But they were quickly determined to be relatively harmless, proof-of-concept programs. A security firm has warned that the Cabir mobile phone virus is becoming more of a threat as more variants emerge.
[December 29, 2004, 9:15]
