Hello again from Melbourne! We've seen another resurgence of Worm:Win32/Conficker , this time as Worm:Win32/Conficker.B . We've already received a number of reports of this new variant from the wild from affected users. Not surprisingly, a majority...

Recently I returned from the Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers Conference (known as AVAR 2008 ) in New Delhi, India. Microsoft was a Gold Sponsor of the conference, at which there were a number of interesting presentations. This was also a great...

I've been coding anti-virus routines for 1, 2, 5... 10, 15, 20... a really long time. Starting with the Apple II, before there was even an anti-virus industry, and continuing on the PC (and funnily enough, joining the industry wasn't the obvious choice...

As mentioned previously on this blog, we added two “rogue” families to MSRT this month: Win32/FakeXPA and Win32/Yektel . We’ve known that rogues in general have been growing in prevalence for some time and with two months of MSRT data (last month we added...

Two days ago, we blogged about attacks that involve exploits of the recently discovered vulnerability in Internet Explorer. We would like to give you a quick update about these attacks. Based on our stats, since the vulnerability has gone public, roughly...

The MSRC released a security advisory yesterday about a vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Just like our colleagues at the MSRC , we're tracking the situation very closely as we've observed the vulnerability exploited in the wild, however within a relatively...

In addition to Win32/FakeXPA we added another rogue-related malware family to MSRT this month - Win32/Yektel . Win32/Yektel is a different kind of rogue. Like other rogues, it displays fake warnings about possibly malware or spyware, but rather than pretending...

Rogue security products have been around for some years, and now they seem to be everywhere. In my previous blog about Trojan:Win32/Antivirusxp I talked about the relationships between rogue products and various other threats. One common behavior of rogue...

Well, after our last post, it certainly didn't take long to see some examples of festive malware from the wild. (You'd almost think that we've seen this kind of behavior before - again and again and again...) In the last couple of days, we (and other...

With visions of sugarplums dancing through my head constantly from around September onwards, I eagerly (and somewhat obsessively) await the festive season every year. As heralded by my son opening the first box on his advent calendar this morning to liberate...