Tag: eset
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Five botnets responsible for 75% of spam sent
Each infected machine sends spam at rate of almost two messages per second. Spam levels have increased 60% since the beginning of this year, according to security company Marshal8e6 in its latest Security Threats report. The increase means that spam levels are now back at where they were mid-2008, prior to the closure of the…
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‘Search engines should do more to fight malware’
85% of users think that search engines should be doing more. According to a recent poll, 85% of visitors to the VB website think that search engines should be doing more to fight malware, but experts say the matter is more complicated than that. A recent paper by researchers at Google revealed that more than…
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One in four consider online banking unsafe
Virus Bulletin finds that one in four users consider online banking to be unsafe, but manage their accounts online regardless, while 50% of users consider online banking to be risk free. In a survey of more than 370 visitors to www.virusbtn.com – many of whom are security professionals – a mere 23% of users said…
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Webcam zero-day in Yahoo! Messenger
Video chat invites pose vulnerability danger. A zero-day vulnerability has been reported in the webcam module of Yahoo! Messenger , allowing attackers remote access to systems open to the exploit. Little detail has yet emerged on the nature of flaw, which was first uncovered after a post detailing how to exploit it was spotted on…
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Series of products hit by vulnerabilities
Researcher finds flaws in ESET, Panda and Norman AV software. Researcher Sergio Alvarez has reported on vulnerabilities found in a string of anti-virus products this week, with software ranges from ESET , Panda and Norman all hit by serious buffer-overflow flaws, allowing remote access if exploited. The ESET problems involve the handling of CAB archives…
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NOD32 alerts on suspect adverts
False positive reveals sneaky techniques used in ads. ESET ‘s NOD32 product was updated several times in close succession over the weekend, as false positives were introduced flagging some JavaScript-based web advertising as the JS/Tivso trojan, and rapid adjustments were made to correct the false alarms. The incident, besides showing some very speedy response times…
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Overflows hit NOD32
Vulnerabilities disclosed after patching. Two stack-overflow vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Eset ‘s flagship NOD32 AntiVirus product, which could have been exploited to escalate privileges, or even execute code remotely and thus access a vulnerable system. The overflow issues, which involve specially formatted pathnames which are not properly processed by the product when dealing with…