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• Good Guys Bring Down the Mega-D Botnet Chalk up one for the defenders. Here’s how a trio of security researchers used a three-step attack to defeat a 250,000-pronged botnet.
• Facebook Trojan: Brazen, but (Luckily) Benign Third-party application called "Phutos" was able to mimic Facebook's native functionality.
• Adobe Reader Zero-Day Exploit: Protecting Your PC Adobe has confirmed a zero-day vulnerability being exploited in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Follow this advice to protect yourself from becoming a victim.
• Adobe Reader Under Zero-Day Attack Online crooks are using an e-mailed .pdf to exploit a new zero-day flaw in Adobe Reader and Acrobat and install a Trojan.
• Fake Swine Flu Emails Lead to Real Malware Infection Security companies have issued warnings of e-mails that appear to come from the Centers for Disease Control, but in fact lead to the Zeus Trojan.
• Rogue Gallery Helps ID Scam Software Lavasoft today launched a new online database of known rogue antivirus software.
• New Banking Trojan Horses Gain Polish As banks improve their ability to detect and fight fraud, the Trojan horses that criminals devise become even more sophisticated.
• Fake Payment Request Attack Ramps Up More than a million trojan-laden spam attacks are masquerading as a payment confirmation request.
• Viruses, Malware Creeping into Online Games Maker of online gaming protection software reveals why virus attacks on video games is a problem that has increased over 600 percent in the past year.
• Mac Trojan May be a Hoax Symantec says creating a spoof Trojan to promote a game is risky.
• Game or Trojan? You're Not the Judge Lose/Lose's creator clearly states that his game will delete your files, but Symantec still calls it a Trojan.
• Report: Malware Makers Are Organized, Sophisticated Cybercriminals are organized like corporations, and follow regular software release cycles, says principal group program manager for the Microsoft Malware Protection Center.
• Skype Spy Trojan Escapes into Wild Code for hacking Skype calls, posted to urge better security, gets built into a spy virus instead.
• Skype Wiretapping Trojan Publicly Released The source code for a Trojan created for the Swiss government is now available online.
• PC Tools Threatfire 4.5 Free Antivirus Software PC Tools' free behavior-based antivirus utility serves as a great supplement to your existing security software.
• Free Antivirus Software You can find lots of free software made to stop worms, viruses, and other malware. We tested several such programs to find the free antivirus you can depend on.
• Avira AntiVir Personal Free Antivirus Software Avira AntiVir Personal offers great, thorough protection and top-notch scan speed, but some nontechies might find its interface frustrating.
• Can You Trust Free Antivirus Software? Lots of companies offer software that’s supposed to stop worms, viruses, and other malware for free. We tested nine such security programs to find the ones you can really depend on.
• AVG 8.5 Free Antivirus Software Though AVG 8.5 Free has a good, straightforward interface and useful blocking of Web-based attacks, its malware blocking is below average.
• PC Tools Antivirus Free Edition Software PC Tools Antivirus, which neglects to detect spyware, allows far too many pieces of malware through for it to realistically protect any PC.
• Alwil Avast Antivirus Home Edition Free Antivirus Software Avast Antivirus Home Edition provides solid antimalware protection and a good set of features, but its outdated interface needs a makeover.
• Microsoft Security Essentials (Beta) Free Antivirus Software An effective but somewhat slow utility, Microsoft Security Essentials will be a solid contender when it comes out of beta around the end of 2009.
• Clamwin Free Antivirus Software This open-source antivirus software fails to get the job done, with disappointing malware detection and no real-time scanning.
• Panda Cloud Antivirus (Beta) Free Software Panda Cloud Antivirus provides great protection in an easy-to-use application, but it's still too deep in development to recommend.
• Comodo Internet Security Free Antivirus Software Comodo Internet Security is not a good antivirus choice, owing to its lackluster malware detection and its tendency to produce false positives.