Oct 2, 2012 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans
The labs are working on it – but this just arrived from a facebook friend – an invitation to an event on facebook – supposedly to win two tickets from SouthWest Airlines… well, following our own perennial advice, we looked carefully at the...
Oct 1, 2012 | Mobile Security, Threat News
If you use an Android phone you may have heard of something called the USSD vulnerability. This allows a nasty piece of malicious software to reset your Android to its factory default settings and permanently delete your data. We will describe the USSD problem in more...
Sep 26, 2012 | ESET Database Updates
ESET update 7518 contains the following threats: 3 Android, 5 JS, 12 MSIL, 1 SWF, 1 VBS, 92 Win32, 1 Win64
Aug 14, 2012 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans
By Steve Ragan he malware responsible for attacks on at least 30 local governments, universities, and businesses in the Netherlands, Dorifel (XDocCrypt), is still actively spreading and causing new infections, despite a wide net of detection within the anti-Virus...
Aug 11, 2012 | Virus & AntiVirus News
The malware that some people are calling Dorifel or XDocCrypt (ESET detects it as Win32/Quervar.C and has a cleaner for it here) is having enormous impact right now, mostly in the Netherlands. It has some very interesting characteristics – it infects documents (and...
Jul 29, 2012 | Adware, Spyware and Trojans, General Security
Want to access the music tracks of YouTube.com videos on your iPod but don’t want to pay? You’re not alone. Recently, a crop of websites have popped up offering to convert the audio from videos to .mp3 files that you can then download at no charge. Sounds great,...
