This is only a test!

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in NOD32 News at 12:41

Detects 100 Percent of In-The-Wild Viruses, Polymorphic Viruses, Worms and Bots with Zero False Positives

SAN DIEGO – June 4, 2009 - ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced it has captured a record 56th VB100 award from Virus Bulletin, a widely-respected independent comparative testing group. ESET is still the only company with more than 50 VB100 awards and continues to lead the industry with the highest detection rates combined with zero false positives - the winning formula in malware prevention. June's report focused on the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003 platform.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Eset Software at 08:57

I kept telling everyone to worry about being secure, not about Conficker. Some people listen, some don’t. So what happened over about the past 24 hours?

According to ESET’s ThreatSense.Net, by about 2 PM GMT on April 1st, of the top 20 threats encountered by our users in the past 24 hours, four out of five of them were NOT Conficker. About 16.17% of the threats were online game password stealing threats. Another 21.5% were threats that were not Conficker and were trying to use Autorun to infect computers. 9.72% of the threats were something we call Win32/Agent, which tries to steal data from your computer. Yes, 80% of the risk was not Conficker but 99% of the attention was on Conficker. Does that make sense to you? Can you imagine crossing the street and ignoring 4 out of 5 cars? Do you think you’ll live long?

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Virus & AntiVirus News at 12:00

So, nothing happened?

Well, yes. Our labs, who’ve been monitoring carefully, note that Conficker changed communication protocols, just as the code said it would.

No doubt in the fullness of time, the botnet will start doing what botnets do: it would be bizarre to put this much effort into a project and then not try to make some profit out of it. And we’ll still be watching.

In the meantime, I suspect, based on past experience, that two things will happen.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Adware, Spyware and Trojans at 11:57