At the recent Virus Bulletin 2010 Conference in Vancouver, BC, I made a presentation highlighting infection data collected from the Malicious Software Removal Tool and data collected from Microsoft Security Essentials in its first year. The presentation (coincidentally on the Security Essentials one year anniversary ), entitled " Observations and lessons learned from comparing point-in-time cleaning against real-time protection ", showed the MSRT as a baseline removal tool to keep the ecosystem clean...

Almost all major holidays are used by bogeymen (also known as cybercrooks) as an excuse to spread malware or spam using social engineering. This year is no exception, so we recommend that you be careful especially if you receive any Halloween themed emails -- even if it's from someone that you know. We've collected some examples that are already circulating and that you need to watch out for. 1. Happy Halloween We wish you a happy Halloween, but not in an email with a link that points to a...