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Vista security credentials tarnished in malware survey

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

“Windows Vista is better at protecting against malware than XP but more easily infected than Windows 2000, according to a study by Australian anti-virus firm PC Tools. [...] Recent research based on malware scans of more than 1.4m PCs running PC Tools’ ThreatFire security technology over a period of six months turned up 639 threats [...]

Malware evolution in Q1 2008

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Alexander Gostev, Senior Virus Analyst at Kaspersky Lab, has released the report “Malware evolution: January – March 2008″. What is interesting, in brief.