Security firms warned users this week to watch out for the Storm Worm after online fraudsters revised the malicious software with a Christmas hook. The fraudsters behind the crime-focused program began sending out a massive wave of e-mail messages over the weekend with subject lines such as "Season Greetings" or "Looking for something hot for [...]

Grisoft seeks info on companies that promoted counterfeit AVG antivirus products through sponsored text ads. AVG said Wednesday that it has filed subpoenas under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act against Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), and Internet domain registrar GoDaddy. The antivirus company, also known as Grisoft, is seeking the identities [...]

Kaspersky Lab has announced the release of Kaspersky® Anti-Virus Mobile Enterprise Edition, designed to protect corporate users of mobile devices from malware and SMS spam. Preventing malicious programs from penetrating the corporate network is one of the main IT security tasks facing companies today. However, traditional solutions fail to provide system administrators with the ability [...]

Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC: 16.85, +0.57, +3.50%) today announced it has earned an unprecedented 35th consecutive VB100 Award from Virus Bulletin. While many other security vendors failed the December 2007 tests, Symantec was one of only two vendors to receive a perfect detection score for all test sets, including "in the wild" malware, and today’s [...]

Advertisements placed by Google in Web pages are being hijacked by so-called Trojan horse software that replaces the intended text with ads from a different provider, Romanian antivirus company BitDefender says. The Trojan redirects queries meant to be sent to Google servers to a rogue server, which displays ads from a third party instead of [...]

Virus Bulletin, an independent certification body, has revealed that 17 out of the 32 antivirus products it tested in its latest survey failed to pass certification. Virus Bulletin runs its VB100 study every two months, pitting a range of antivirus products against a range of viruses selected from the WildList, a publicly available list of [...]

Understanding which AV package provides the best level of total protection isn’t easy. Products from Symantec (Norton Antivirus) and McAfee are virtually ubiquitous, but there are a dozen or more smaller players in the market, all of which advertise themselves as being the best solution for total antivirus protection. Since each company creates its own [...]

Teaming up with Sophos, security vendor Marshal today announced the availability of Sophos’s anti-virus engine as an add-on for the MailMarshal and WebMarshal products. After reaching an agreement, the Sophos for Marshal, module will combine Sophos’s anti-virus engine with Marshal’s content security technology to form an integrated malware module at the gateway. 

There’s been a round of new anti-malware software updates coming out in the last couple of months, and as usual I’ve received a few evaluation copies oft he main titles. I decided to try all of these and post my impressions – and nominate one that will stay on my laptop for at least the [...]