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September 2009 - Posts

Notes from the VB Conference

Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:06 PM by mmpc
Back in our labs in Dublin, Melbourne, and Redmond from the 2009 Virus Bulletin conference! This year there were almost 400 attendees and 49 presentations covered by 60 speakers (7 of them from Microsoft). The MMPC had presenters from all three labs at Read More...
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Introducing Microsoft Security Essentials

Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:45 AM by mmpc
The Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) would like to introduce you to Microsoft’s new security program - Microsoft Security Essentials . The MMPC is very excited about this release, which should help us to protect more customers around the world Read More...
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From Dublin to Geneva

Posted Monday, September 21, 2009 5:28 PM by mmpc
Hello! Greetings from Dublin! As mentioned by Jakub in a previous post , we are presenting at the Virus Bulletin International Conference 2009 in Geneva next week. It’s an understatement to say that we're excited about attending the conference – and not Read More...
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The modern rogue - a timely subject

Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:41 PM by mmpc
As Jakub mentioned , I'll soon be presenting at the Virus Bulletin conference in Geneva. I've spent a lot of time looking at rogue security software in the last year, so I'm looking forward to sharing some of my findings. The subject of rogues (or "scareware") Read More...
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I can’t go back to yesterday - see you in Geneva

Posted Tuesday, September 15, 2009 6:35 PM by mmpc
At last year’s VB conference, my talk “ Playing with shadows - exposing the black market for online game password theft ” discussed malware being sold on the black market for password stealing purposes. During the “Q & A” time, someone asked a question Read More...
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September in Geneva

Posted Monday, September 14, 2009 5:57 PM by mmpc
Another year has passed, and the time of the most important annual anti-malware event is upon us. The Virus Bulletin International Conference 2009 takes place on 23-25 September at The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Geneva, Switzerland. As usual, the program is Read More...
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Delivering the latest MSRT update

Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 7:01 PM by mmpc
This month we added both Win32/Bredolab and Win32/Daurso families to the latest MSRT release. Win32/Bredolab is a trojan downloader that garnered industry attention over the middle stages of 2009. This is due to a number of spam campaigns employing e-mail Read More...
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