TruPrevent stops Conficker.A worm proactively

Pedro Bustamante at  28 November 08 03:29    
As I'm sure you've heard already, there's a new worm called Conficker.A out there exploiting the latest critical Windows MS08-067 vulnerability which allows remote code execution via specially crafted RPC calls. SANS has been tracking this
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Exploits vs Antivirus - The Last Stand

Pedro Bustamante at  14 October 08 08:52    
Internet Security Suites fail to block exploits and do little to protect users against exploits , according to a recently released " test " [ here ] by Secunia, a Danish vulnerability notification firm. I quoted the word " test " as
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Panda Security Days in Sweden

Pedro Bustamante at  07 October 08 11:26    
Last week we did a series of technical conferences in different swedish cities talking about products and Collective Intelligence and how it works "behind the scenes". The talks were given in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö by Panda Sweden's
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Command line scanner GUI frontend

Pedro Bustamante at  16 September 08 04:02    
One of the readers of this blog was nice enough to create a GUI frontend to Panda Antivirus Command Line (PAVCL). It's a small little utility that's really useful for certain tasks. From the main window you can configure the scan, update the signature
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Malware Prevalence August 2008

Pedro Bustamante at  05 September 08 10:48    
During the month of August we've seen 8165 unique samples actively circulating and infecting users. These figures come mostly from people who use our online scanner Panda ActiveScan and have a variety of different AV products installed as well as
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Simply... Evolution

Pedro Bustamante at  17 July 08 04:13    
A very first look into something we're working on ;) If you want to sign up for a limited technology preview drop us a note with your details. Only a few people will be selected. Format: swf Duration: --:--
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Most Popular Freeware Championship 2008

Pedro Bustamante at  09 July 08 10:00    
First it was the Eurocup, then Wimbeldon, and to top it all off, Panda Anti-Rootkit has won Germany's PC WELT " Most Popular Freeware Tool " Championship 2008. This is a prize run by members of PC Welt forums and the selection is done by
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WildList, Virus Bulletin 100% and other battles

Pedro Bustamante at  06 July 08 10:22    
There's been a lot of talk about the WildList lately. On one hand Larry Seltzer criticized the WildList based certifications as not representative of reality plus a strain on antivirus products by having to detect 10 year old viruses. Some key comments
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New Panda Antivirus Command Line 9.5.1

Pedro Bustamante at  04 July 08 01:04    
I'm happy to announce the availability of our new Panda Antivirus Command-Line scanner (PAVCL) version 9.5.1.00. This new engine incorporates interesting features over previous versions specially focused on detecting and deactivating active rootkits
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Antivirus industry 10 years ago

Pedro Bustamante at  20 June 08 03:51    
From our friends at Ikarus. In the last Virus Bulletin I got a t-shirt from them with this picture on it, but forgot it at the G-Data Table Soccer Championship booth after the final match against BitDefender :( I wonder what the 2009 picture will look
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Panda Internet Security 2009 BETA

Pedro Bustamante at  19 June 08 09:47    
We've recently released the new Panda Internet Security 2009 to public beta. This is the first product to use "scanning from the cloud" technology based on Panda's Collective Intelligence [ PDF ] as the first line of defense against
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Malware Prevalence May 2008

Pedro Bustamante at  16 June 08 12:40    
During the month of May we've seen a 346% growth over April of unique samples actively circulating and infecting users (23.550 samples in May vs. 6.809 in April). Out of the total seen In-The-Wild only a portion are new and not seen in previous months,
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Banking Trojans III

Pedro Bustamante at  02 June 08 12:24    
In previous posts Banking Trojans I and Banking Trojans II we did an overview of the main banker trojan families and their simple characteristics (files and registry entries). Let's dig a little deeper now and take a look at their infection and hiding
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Debian OpenSSL

Pedro Bustamante at  27 May 08 05:45    
From HDMoore , too good to pass out:
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Fenomen(al) False Positives

Pedro Bustamante at  19 May 08 06:22    
One of the problems with automation of antivirus signature creation is that if a few AV vendors start detecting something as malicious, even with heuristics, "automagically" soon afterwards other AV vendors start doing the same without even
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