Have you ever wondered how anti-virus signatures are created?
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Avira malware extension stats for Jan 2010
Felix EhlersThe german antivirus company Avira has published statistics about file extensions used by malware in URLs that may occur in emails or infected websites for January 2010.
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More antivirus suites arrive on Mac
Felix EhlersThe first antivirus program for Mac OS X came from Sophos. Other vendors waited until the Mac got more attention, not only to users but also to malware authors. These beautiful computer systems are nowadays not only used by graphic designers but also by developers, administrators and CEOs. Everyone who wants a beautiful computer and/or operating systems. No doubt it is the sexiest UNIX system.
Now the antivirus suites for Mac OS X from other vendors are popping up.
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Developers for OpenEAV wanted
Felix EhlersOpenEAV, the free and open antivirus system for the enterprise is watching out for a talented and experienced C++/QT programmer with good knowledge of the STL and the Boost library. The client gui needs to be designed, implemented and must fit well around OpenEAV’s core api.
Everyone who feels to be interested in helping out should not hesitate to contact me.
The OpenEAV project is hosted on Google Code
In additional news, the project now has it’s own development list OpenEAV-devel.
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Multiple antivirus products with security issues
Felix EhlersSymantec reports that most of their av products have a security issue in conjunction with prepared archive files. These could bypass the virus scanner because the file format is not correct but the operating system is still able to etract the files.
Also Frisk (F-Prot), Norman and Ikarus published updates to similar problems in their products.
Kaspersky silently deployed updates to a parsing bug that prevented to identify pdf files if the magic string %PDF was missing.