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12/18/2009

News: Twitter attacker had proper credentials

Twitter attacker had proper credentials

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12/18/2009

News: PhotoDNA scans images for child abuse

PhotoDNA scans images for child abuse

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12/16/2009

News: Conficker data highlights infected networks

Conficker data highlights infected networks

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Can you answer the ERP quiz?
These 10 questions determine if your Enterprise RP rollout gets an A+.
http://www.findtechinfo.com/as/acs?pl=781&ca=909

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09/17/2009

News: Popular apps need better patching, says report

Popular apps need better patching, says report

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02/02/2010

Brief: Google offers bounty on browser bugs

Google offers bounty on browser bugs

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01/28/2010

Brief: Cyberattacks from U.S. "greatest concern"

Cyberattacks from U.S. "greatest concern"

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Can you answer the ERP quiz?
These 10 questions determine if your Enterprise RP rollout gets an A+.
http://www.findtechinfo.com/as/acs?pl=781&ca=909

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01/21/2010

Brief: Microsoft patches as fraudsters target IE flaw

Microsoft patches as fraudsters target IE flaw

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01/18/2010

Brief: Attack on IE 0-day refined by researchers

Attack on IE 0-day refined by researchers

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03/04/2010

News: Monster botnet held 800,000 people's details

Monster botnet held 800,000 people's details

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Can you answer the ERP quiz?
These 10 questions determine if your Enterprise RP rollout gets an A+.
http://www.findtechinfo.com/as/acs?pl=781&ca=909

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03/04/2010

News: Google: 'no timetable' on China talks

Google: 'no timetable' on China talks

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Security, virus and company news from BitDefender.

03/02/2010

Trojan.Clicker.CM Vanishes from BitDefender’s February Top Five E-Threat Report

Removable devices are this month’s main vectors of infection

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02/24/2010

Kanguru Solutions Teams Up With BitDefender To Immunize Encrypted Flash Drives

Partnership to provide world-class antivirus protection to Kanguru Defender Elite Secure Flash Drives

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02/12/2010

Tech Data Distributes BitDefender Antivirus Software and Data Security Solutions Throughout Canada

Agreement Significantly Expands BitDefender’s Established Channel Partner Program, Increases BitDefender’s Reach into a Fast-Growing Market

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02/09/2010

Super Bowl 2010 Queries May Lead to Rogue Antivirus Downloads

A simple click on an apparently “clean” link related to the competition can unleash a malware

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02/09/2010

BitDefender Offers Safety Tips for Online Dating This Valentine’s Day

Let someone special steal your heart this holiday, not your identity

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Recent News about Spam.

02/24/2009

Spammers move from China to Russia

Stricter rules on registering .cn domains leads to increase in malicious .ru domains.

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01/26/2009

EU report suggests 95% of email is spam

Less than five per cent of all SMTP connections result in an email being delivered into a user's inbox.

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12/15/2009

Project Honey Pot 'celebrates' billionth spam message

Facebook about to become most phished organization.

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12/15/2009

Botnets becoming more robust

Zeus botnet used Amazon's in-the-cloud service to control bots.

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12/01/2009

Legal success against notorious spammers

Atkinson to pay huge fine; Ralsky to spend years in prison.

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11/30/2009

VB calls for collaboration amongst anti-spam vendors

VB finds that, when it comes to spam filtering, a combined effort outperforms individual products.

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10/09/2009

Webmail data leak hype deflated

Rumoured phishing explosion grabs headlines, reality much more mundane.

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Recent news: update from Clam Anti Virus.

ClamWin Free Antivirus is a non-profit free software project.

You can find out about ClamWin Free Antivirus here.

10/06/2009

End of Life Announcement: ClamAV 0.94.x

All ClamAV releases older than 0.95 are affected by a bug in freshclam which prevents incremental updates from working with signatures longer than 980 bytes. [...]

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06/24/2009

Sourceforge CCA ‘09: watch the video!

Vote for us!

Yesterday Sourceforge announced the finalists for Community Choice Awards 2009. We are glad to let you know that ClamAV was among the 10 projects that collected more nominations in the Best tool for sysadmin category!

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06/12/2009

FISL 10 Conference in Brazil

ClamAV’s own Tomasz Kojm will be giving two talks at the FISL 10 Conference, June 24th through 27th in Porto Alegre Brazil. Abstracts and times for Tomasz’ presentations are below. If you’re attending please stop by and say hi. June 24 – 2:00pm “ClamAV Basics, Common Usage, Tips & Tricks” The presentation will provide a broad [...]

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05/18/2009

SourceForge.net 2009 Community Choice Awards nominations

SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards just opened and we hope to receive your help to nominate ClamAV to one or more categories. Once all final nominees have been decided, everyone will be able to vote for the projects of their choice in each category. We hope to be nominated in the category “Best Tool or Utility for [...]

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05/18/2009

DojoSec June briefings

Alain Zidouemba will give a talk at DojoSec on the topic: What to do with the unknown. Here are the meeting details: Date: June 4, 2009 [...]

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02/09/2009

ClamAV Users’ Webcast

The next ClamAV® Users’ Webcast will be on Wed 4th March at 1800UTC: 10 AM PST, 1 PM EST, 6 PM GMT, 7 PM CEST. The talk, given by Alain Zidouemba of Sourcefire will be an introduction to writing ClamAV Signatures. The talk will cover about an hour. The talk will be technically advanced, and [...]

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01/29/2009

Conficker aka Downadup

Some of you may have heard of a current major outbreak of a virus known as Downadup that has been reported at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7842013.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7832652.stm. It has been estimated that move than 9 million PCs are infected across the world. ClamAV detects Downadup, also known as Conficker, as Worm.Downadup. Once on a system it downloads [...]

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01/28/2009

500,000 Signatures and Counting

Today, 27th January 2009, ClamAV’s signature team investigated and identified Trojan.Agent-70954, the 500,000th entry in its database. Well done to all the team for working so hard to produce a quality database. From time to time we are asked to keep the size of the database down by trimming old signatures; but, as the statistics-gathering program [...]

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11/11/2008

ClamAV twitter feed available

Notifications of ClamAV signature updates are now available via our Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/clamav. The notifications include information about the number of signatures added and the total number of signatures in the ClamAV database. We hope to include other information on that feed later [...]

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11/03/2008

ClamAV 0.94.1 released

There is one new feature in this release. This feature allows ClamAV users optionally to submit statistics to us about what they detect in the field. We will then use this data to determine what types of Malware/Viruses are the most detected in the field and in what geographic area they are. It closes the following [...]

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