'Rogue' Cleaning Tool Targets Mac Users
News Mac users have been warned by F-Secure against downloading a free "rogue" security application, MacSweeper. Like this latest scam, the distributors used social-engineering techniques to trick users into downloading the software.
[January 16, 2008, 12:43]
Mobile Trojan Launches Skulls Attack
News F-Secure has only had reports of Skulls.D from two users, who were infected after downloading an application from a Web forum. You are most at risk if you are downloading illegal copies of applications, especially from peer to peer networks.
[January 6, 2005, 15:50]
Centrally Managed Antivirus Software
News With a centrally managed antivirus solution, you have the benefit of downloading the virus signatures/definitions and software updates to a single server, thus requiring only one machine to be connected to the Internet on that port.
[January 8, 2003, 8:45]
The Year Ahead: The Future Of Viruses
News An innovation of Nimda and Code Red was that they did not rely on users downloading and executing an email attachment. You can now be infected without your downloading anything or knowing anything about it," said Chien.
[December 31, 2002, 6:33]
Latest MyDoom Worm Exploits Web Site Guestbooks
News A new variant of the MyDoom worm discovered on Tuesday downloads malware from an MP3-downloading site and a personal Web site, according to security experts, who claim that hackers have compromised these sites by exploiting scripting...
[August 16, 2004, 17:30]
Experts Unconcerned By Imminent Sober Attack
News F-Secure advises systems administrators to block these URLs to prevent Sober from downloading anything on and after 6 January: home.arcor.de/dixqshv/ people.freenet.de/wjpropqmlpohj/ people.freenet.de/zmnjgmomgbdz/ people.freenet.de/mclvompycem...
[January 4, 2006, 13:15]
'Storm Worm' Slithers On
News Over the weekend there were six subsequent waves of the attack, with each email attempting to lure users into downloading an executable by promising a topical news story. The Trojan, named "Storm Worm" by antivirus vendor F-Secure, first started to...
[January 22, 2007, 13:06]
Windows XP SP2 May Stop The Worms
News I really hope users will be downloading SP2," he said. Security company F-Secure has reverse-engineered SP2, a process the company compares to taking apart a virus or worm to see how it functions, and the company's initial reaction is very positive.
[August 9, 2004, 15:35]
Cabir Spotted In The US
News While instances of infected phones are still extremely rare, each serves as a warning of the day when the threat of downloading a virus on a phone is as great as it is now on personal computers running Windows, said David Sym-Smith, a senior vice...
[February 21, 2005, 8:05]
Amazon Users Campaign Against Sony's Copy-restriction Technology
News He has now started downloading music files from BitTorrent and P2P sites. Mikko Hyppönen, the director of antivirus research at F-Secure, which has been researching potential security issues arising from this copy-restricted CD, told ZDNet UK that...
[November 3, 2005, 16:35]
Microsoft Prepares Windows Patch CD
News Many users rarely or never apply security patches to their systems, because they are not aware that they should, can't be bothered or don't wish to spend hours downloading an enormous backlog of fixes over a slow Internet connection.
[December 5, 2003, 16:10]
Don't Fear The Sober, Just Prepare For It
News Because a machine needs to be already infected with a variant of the virus for the update to take effect, machines can be prevented from downloading the updated virus by having the current version removed before 5 January.
[December 12, 2005, 12:25]
Researchers: Cyberattacks Outstripping Defences
News A good example of how fast criminal hackers are adapting is evident in the recent resurgence of the Storm worm — first discovered in January — last month, which lured unsuspecting web users into downloading malicious codes onto their PCs, he said.
[September 7, 2007, 9:51]
Security Firms Scrap Over 'mobile Viruses'
News It said handsets can either be infected by sharing files with PCs via Bluetooth or by downloading files from the Internet. Earlier this month, F-Secure was questioned over hyping mobile phone viruses in a bid to sell antivirus products.
[September 23, 2005, 9:55]
Proof-of-concept Malware Targets Windows PowerShell
News Instead, it abuses the product's ability to execute scripts, by attempting to trick users into downloading and running malicious code. F-Secure was criticised for identifying this as "the first virus to target Vista".
[August 1, 2006, 17:40]
Sasser.a And Sasser.b: Prevention And Cure
News The worms use a bootstrap effect by infecting new machines first, then downloading the full code from a previously infected machine. For more information on Sasser.b, see Computer Associates, F-Secure, McAfee, Norman, Panda, Sophos, Symantec, and...
[May 5, 2004, 12:00]
