Twitter Malware loose tonight 9-18-2011
I have been getting a lot of twitter malware links tonight that uses a pretty simple browser based exploit that is easily caught by just about any anti-virus. But tonight malware links are making the rounds, and unfortunately they are going everywhere. So far have about 3 accounts I follow in the comic book community [...]
Understanding VMware vShield Endpoint And Agentless Malware Protection
When I wrote my analysis on VMware’s VMworld 2010 announcements earlier this week, I didn’t cover a product which piqued my interest. It is about VMware’s moves to beef up virtualization and cloud security through their vShield offering. I decided to wait because I wanted to talk to one of VMware’s partners, Trend Micro, before [...]
Cleaning up after Antivirus Soft on Vista
It has been about three years since I caught a computer virus, but a nasty little chunk of malware broke through my browser and Anti-Virus last night called Antivirus Soft. Here is a quick way of cleaning up after being taken out by this rogue chunk of malware in a few easy steps. The cleanup [...]
Panda Releases Cloud Antivirus
Image via Wikipedia Antivirus on the Cloud is an interesting topic for me. Six months back I was reading a research paper by the researchers at the University of Michigan on the topic of Antivirus on the Clouds (CloudAV: N-Version Antivirus in the Network Cloud by Oberheide et. al.). They proposed a model where Antivirus [...]
Anti Virus in the Cloud
Symantec is releasing a suite of tools today that will help companies deal with virus outbreaks that might infect documents, spreadsheets, and other ways that malware might make it back into your company. As more workers become virtual, cloud computing offers compelling ways to share information, but as workers connect, you never know what is [...]
