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Virus Bulletin Yodelling Competition

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:09:00 GMT

Anti-virus experts converged from around the world to discuss malware in Geneva.. Oh, and to engage in a little yodelling competition. More info at http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/09/24/morning-night-virus-bulletin-vb2009/

By SophosLabs

Tags : Bulletin, F-Prot, Frisk, Geneva, Software, Sophos, SophosLabs, Virus, Yodelling

Death of Patrick Swayze exploited by hackers

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:45:01 GMT

Hackers have created malicious websites posing as information about the death of Dirty Dancing actor Patrick Swayze. More info at http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/09/15/patrick-swayzes-death-exploited-scareware-hackers/

By SophosLabs

Tags : Patrick, Sophos, SophosLabs, Swayze, hackers, virus

Demo of Snow Leopard stopping Mac OS X malware

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:12:00 GMT

How good is the anti-virus in Snow Leopard, the new Apple operating system? See how Mac OS X Snow Leopard can stop malware - and how it compares to anti-virus software. More info at http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/08/28/snow-leopard-malware-protection/ Feel free to embed the video if you like, it's also available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCKciRQQ_8o

By SophosLabs

Tags : Apple, Leopard, Mac, Malware, OS, Snow, Sophos, SophosLabs, X, virus

Protecting against the Microsoft MS08-067 security vulnerability

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:40:25 GMT

Vanja Svajcer, principal virus researcher at SophosLabs, demonstrates how anti-virus software can protect against buffer overflow exploits - including the new Microsoft MS08-067 security vulnerability. Learn more on the SophosLabs blog at http://www.sophos.com/security/blog/2008/11/1923.html

By SophosLabs

Tags : MS08-067, Microsoft, Sophos, SophosLabs, Svajcer, Vanja, antivirus, hacker, security, virus, vulnerability

Security experts answer key questions at Virus Bulletin 2008

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:17:04 GMT

Anti-virus experts answer questions at the Virus Bulletin conference in Ottawa, October 2008. They discuss the death of anti-virus, lipstick on pigs, and Mikko from F-Secure's ponytail. Includes inteviews with computer security experts from McAfee, Symantec, Sophos, Trend, Frisk, IBM, AVG, Sunbelt and others. Learn more on Graham Cluley's blog at http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc

By SophosLabs

Tags : 2008, alex, antivirus, avg, bontchev, bridwell, bulletin, carole, cluley, conference, david, dmitry, eckelberry, f-prot, f-secure, fridrik, frisk, graham, gryaznov, hellqvist, hypponen, ibm, larry, malware, mcafee, michael, mikko, neitzel, norton, per, perry, ponytail, skulason, sophos, sophoslabs, st, sunbelt, symantec, theriault, trend, vb, vb2008, vesselin, virus

Interview with John Hawes of Virus Bulletin

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:56:00 GMT

John Hawes, technical consultant at Virus Bulletin, is interviewed at the VB 2008 conference in Ottawa, Canada.

By SophosLabs

Tags : Bulletin, Hawes, John, Virus, conference

Sophos Cillit Bang advert spoof

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:35:00 GMT

Sophos staff have some fun spoofing the infamous Cillit Bang British TV advert. Learn more about Sophos at http://www.sophos.com And if you're not familiar with Cillit Bang visit http://www.cillitbang.co.uk/

By SophosLabs

Tags : Bang, Barry, Cillit, Scott, Sophos, SophosLabs, antivirus, malware, virus

Sophos WebAlert - explained with children's toys

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:28:05 GMT

With a selection of children's toys, Sophos security experts demonstrate how it can monitor your website and warn you if hackers have planted viruses or Trojan horses on your website. Learn more at http://www.sophos.com/webalert

By SophosLabs

Tags : Sophos, SophosLabs, WebAlert, injection, malware, spyware, sql, trojan, virus

Barack Obama Sex Video malware attack

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:51:01 GMT

Sophos describes how hackers are sending out malicious spam emails, trying to infect internet users with the lure of a sex video of presidential candidate Barack Obama. Learn more at http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2008/09/10/barack-obama-sex-video

By SophosLabs

Tags : Barack, Obama, Sophos, SophosLabs, email, internet, malware, spam, trojan, virus

When email attachments attack

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:49:03 GMT

Sophos describes how an email malware campaign, which poses as an airline e-ticket, is stopped as both spam and a Trojan horse. Learn more on Graham Cluley's blog at http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2008/08/01/video-the-e-ticket-email-malware-campaign/

By SophosLabs

Tags : :, Trojan, airline, computer, email, filter, gateway, horse, malware, puremessage, sophos, sophoslabs, ticket, virus

The CNN Video Malware Attack

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:51:01 GMT

Emails claiming to be breaking news and video stories from CNN, actually link to malicious downloads designed to infect your PC. Graham Cluley from SophosLabs demonstrates the campaign. Find out more on Graham Cluley's blog at http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2008/08/07/exposed-cnn-top-ten-video-malware/

By SophosLabs

Tags : breaking, cnn, horse, malware, news, sophos, sophoslabs, trojan, virus