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Microsoft targets password stealers: Microsoft's June 10 update of its Malicious Software Removal Tool MSRT was updated to detect and remove game password-stealing malware. The results are pretty amazing - more than 2 million PCs disinfected in the first week (out of some 330 million downloads of the MSRT). by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Tags: Password, Microsoft Corp., Malicious Software, Malicious Software Removal Tool, Taterf, Frethog, Viruses And Worms, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-06-21

Microsoft's intelligence security report: The top 5 takeaways: Microsoft on Wednesday will unveil its sixth Security Intelligence Report and the tome---all 184 pages of it---has a lot of interesting data points culled from the software giant's antivirus applications. Microsoft concludes that rogue security software is a big threat, lost and stolen equipment is a bigger issue than hacking...; Tags: Software, Trojan Horse, Microsoft Corp., Security Software, Win32/Renos, Win32/FakeSecSen, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Tools & Techniques, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2009-04-08
Asus ships Eee Box PCs with malware: Asus has confirmed and apologized to customers (press release in Japanese; translated version) for shipping malware on the recently introduced Eee Box desktop computer : "According to an email sent out by Asus, PC Advisor reports, the Eee Box's 80GB hard drive has the recycled.exe virus files hidden in...; Tags: ASUS, PC, Malware, UPC, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-10-09

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