The 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.

The most common extension used by malware is .exe (53.29%) followed by no file extension (18.99%) and the third place goes …

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The 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 …

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OpenEAV, 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 …

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Symantec 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 …

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