Windows malware

Rogue antivirus programs have been around for years now, trying to scare people into buying fake products. This time, Desktop Security 2010 RogueAV comes with an interesting new trick to frighten users.

What wonderful times we live in! Thanks to the development of the Internet, we can purchase things and pay for services quickly and easily. Things have become incredibly convenient.

Brazilian cybercriminals using proxy-auto-config feature to rediret users to malicious servers

Last Friday, Kaspersky Lab’s experts detected a new variant of Sality.aa, which is at present the most popular polymorphic virus. Within the last two years this virus has remained one of the TOP-5 malicious programs.

2009 was the latest milestone both in the history of malware and in the history of cybercrime, with a marked change in direction in both areas. This year laid the foundation of what we will see in the future.

The first Top Twenty lists malicious programs, adware and potentially unwanted programs that were detected and neutralized when accessed for the first time, i.e. by the on-access scanner.

Friday 13th! If you’re at all superstitious, today is bad news. But for those of us in the antivirus industry, Friday 13th is a special day.

Kaspersky Lab presents its monthly malware statistics for October. From this month onwards, the data used is gathered from all products which use the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), i.e. products from both the 2009 and 2010 lines.

As expected, we can confirm more compromised machines. Our current count looks as follows

Around October 20th we received mails from our office in Turkey about the “possible spread of a new virus”

After a lengthy interlude, we’re renewing our monthly malware almanac by popular demand.

Kaspersky Lab presents its monthly malware statistics for September

Kaspersky Lab presents its monthly malware statistics for August

There’s been a lot of fuss in the media lately, with news from all the major antivirus companies being printed and reprinted. The source of all the fuss? Virus.Win32.Induc.a.

We recently added detection for a file infector to our databases, for something we call Virus.Win32.Induc.a. Since then, we’ve had a load of questions about it.