Snow Leopard’s malware protection only scans for two Trojans

The much hyped built-in malware protection into Apple’s Snow Leopard upgrade appears to be nothing more than a XProtect.plist file containing five signatures for two of the most popular Mac OS X trojans – OSX.RSPlug and OSX.Iservice. Intego, the company that originally reported the new feature, has just released a comparative review of their [...]

Review: Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010

The good One of the most comprehensive security suites we’ve encountered Behaviour-based prevention system Security for Symbian and Windows Mobile devices The bad Virus detection and removal efficacy is hard to determine Service is acceptable, but not stellar Launching a link from within the program feels sluggish and awkward Editor’s note: this review was [...]

Review: Trend Micro AntiVirus plus AntiSpyware 2010

The good Basic antivirus and anti-spyware protection The bad Stripped-down program lacks many of the bells and whistles that made its siblings worth considering Editor’s note: this review was written in conjunction with CNET’s review of Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 . If you’re looking for a robust feature set from your security [...]

Source code for Skype eavesdropping trojan in the wild

Earlier this week, Swiss programmer Ruben Unteregger who has been reportedly working for a Swiss company ERA IT Solutions responsible for coding government sponsored spyware, has released the source code of a trojan horse that injects code into the Skype process in order to convert the incoming and outgoing voice data into an encrypted MP3 [...]

BKDR_REFPRON in New Mass Compromise

Trend Micro threat analysts were alerted to another mass compromise attack affecting around 55,000 consumer-oriented sites spread throughout Canada, China, the United Kingdom, and India as of the first report. This incident is a painful reminder of the persisting risk of unprotected Web-surfing. In this particular case, the malicious scripts injected in the legitimate [...]