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  • 94% of Internet users befriend unknown ‘good-looking woman’

    Sensitiva data shared after two-hour chat. Research from BitDefender has shown that the vast majority of users of social network sites are willing to befriend an unknown, 21-year-old, fair-haired woman; many of them even shared sensitive data that could be used to steal passwords. The researchers created the fake profile on a popular social networking…

  • Anti-spam products do well in VB testing

    VB announces anti-spam certification results. Virus Bulletin has announced that 12 products earned VBSpam awards in its latest round of comparative anti-spam testing. A total of 14 products took part in the test, with two achieving the highest level Platinum certification, while nine earned Gold awards and one achieved Silver certification. The Platinum awards were…

  • Vista SP1 clashing with AV products

    Service Pack causing issues for several security suites. Microsoft has released details of several software products that are known to have problems running in conjunction with Service Pack 1 for its Vista operating system. The list includes several security products, including BitDefender 10 , BitDefender Internet Security 10 , Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 ,…

  • Trojan using webmail to send spam

    Captcha systems possibly cracked to automate account creation. BitDefender has reported a new trojan attempting to bypass security measures on leading webmail systems Hotmail and Yahoo! , to use their services to send out spam. The trojan, dubbed ‘Spammer.HotLan’, downloads instructions from the web, and then either logs into existing accounts and mails from there,…