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Measure and counter measure – malware and anti-malware
21 April 08 09:04 PM

There is a small, high-tech and rather geeky war going on and the battlefield is your PC. Like any war, each side is trying to learn from the other. This war is for the ownership of resources – and ultimately for money. Maybe most wars are. Let us look Read More...

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Malware that wants to stay - Some passive protection tricks
20 March 08 08:31 PM

Hello again I wanted to talk about some of the things that malware does to make itself hard to remove. Most Trojans are designed to work on an average XP workstation and make assumptions based on that – which typically breaks servers in rather nasty ways. Read More...

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Security Updates - Are they the answer?
12 February 08 01:23 PM

Ah, another “update Tuesday” – known to the rest of the world as “patch Tuesday” but we are not supposed to call it that. We have a fine crop of updates for you but I am not going to talk about those, partially because we won’t be releasing them for several Read More...

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Antimalware tools and tricks
21 January 08 04:50 PM

Ah, I am back in the office and settling into to my normal day to day work. I am fairly often asked to remove malware from systems which the anti-malware programs on that particular PC system can’t handle. In fairness, it is often not the AV products Read More...

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Doing it yourself.
26 October 07 08:22 PM

Hello again Two blogs in less than 48 hours? Whatever could be happening? No, this is not a reference to the issue documented in http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/943521.mspx which is interesting but certainly not widely exploited in Read More...

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Can you break Law #1 and get away with it?
24 September 07 04:20 PM

To save you scrolling down, let me restate Law #1 of the immutable laws of security: " If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not your computer anymore" Is there any possibility that it is safe to do business with a computer Read More...

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Targeted attacks - a sniper rifle, not a scattergun
25 July 07 05:44 PM

Malware is often thought of as an equal opportunity nasty. After all, real viruses affect the rich and poor equally. However, things are not as they once were. In the heady days of Blaster and Slammer and Nimda et al, the malware would infect anyone that Read More...

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How malware likes to hide
05 July 07 04:58 PM

Well, technically, how malware writers like to hide malware. In my last post, I talked about subversion – hacking the OS not to see the malware. That is part of the rootkit. Not all malware uses a rootkit and all malware has to avoid detection by signature Read More...

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Malware over the years. It is only paranoia if they are not out to get you
25 June 07 09:56 PM

In a slight change of pace, I would like to talk about malware and how things have evolved. I am not exactly a spring chicken which surprises some people because I am still part of the support organization. I like it here – I am working on real problems Read More...

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