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Botnets Can Trample Most Anti-Virus Programs
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| A new analysis of botnets has come up with a possible reason for their
| prodigious ability to infect PCs -- many anti-virus programs are near to
| useless in blocking the binaries used to spread them.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/154649/antivirus_botnet.html?tk=rss_news
Microsoft Warns of Worm Attack on Windows
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| Security researchers at Microsoft Corp. last week warned of a significant
| climb in exploits of a Windows bug it patched with an emergency fix last
| month, confirming earlier reports by Symantec Corp.
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| Microsoft again urged users to apply the MS08-067 patch if they have not
| already done so.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/154666/windows_bug_worm.html?tk=rss_news
Microsoft Warns Of Attack Exploiting Windows Vulnerability
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| Specifically, the worm deletes any use-created System Restore points, and
| attempts to contact numerous sites, including those of Google, Yahoo, MSN and
| ask.com, to obtain the current date, according to researchers at the SANS
| Institute. The worm then uses the date information to generate a list of
| domain names, which it then contacts in an attempt to download additional
| malicious files onto a user's affected computer.
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http://www.crn.com/security/212200768
Microsoft warns of new Windows attacks
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| The new attacks, which Microsoft's Malware Protection Center said began over
| the weekend but spiked during the past two days, use the same worm that
| Symantec first spotted last Friday.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9121660&intsrc=news_ts_head
Microsoft: Worm Exploiting Networked Computers via HTTP
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| Microsoft informed in its most recent security bulletin that a worm dubbed
| Win32/Conficker.gen!A is messing around with computers across a network by
| exploiting a vulnerability in the Windows Server service, allowing remote
| code execution to take place while file sharing is enabled.
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http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Microsoft_Worm_Exploiting_Networked_Computers_via_HTTP_30045.html
Vanished article:
Microsoft Not Rushing To Fix Vista Kernel Vulnerability
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2008/11/microsoft_not_rushing_to_fix_v.php
No surprise there... Microsoft is not interested in security and it shows.
Recent:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
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