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October 2009 - Posts

MSRT October Release – Case Study

Posted Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:45 AM by mmpc
As of October 21st, the MSRT has removed the newly added threat, Win32/FakeScanti from 56,700 infected machines. For this month, it was the 12th most prevalent threat family worldwide and 7th in the US. Overall the MSRT has cleaned 2,516,235 machines Read More...
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VISTA_32_BIT_BLACK(HAT)_EDITION_2009.iso

Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 3:10 PM by mmpc
As we’ve mentioned before, your average user is the most at risk of getting infected these days. So, with the release of Microsoft Security Essentials recently en masse, we’re really able to see some of the fruits of our labour over the last few years. Read More...
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Microsoft Security Essentials – Week One

Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:05 PM by mmpc
Now that Microsoft Security Essentials is generally available to consumers in 19 countries, we've had a chance to go over the data, and there are some very interesting results. Just in the first week we saw well over 1.5 million downloads of Microsoft Read More...
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Scanti-ly Clad - Another Rogue Stripped by MSRT

Posted Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:10 AM by mmpc
Anyone who’s seen a system infected by a rogue security program doesn’t need to be told how annoying they can be, as they attempt to scare, threaten, cajole, hector, harangue, pester, aggravate, intimidate, badger, harass and generally nag* the user into Read More...
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Where in the world is the MMPC

Posted Monday, October 12, 2009 8:40 AM by mmpc
Based on the interest we saw in the various presentations our team did at Virus Bulletin in Geneva a couple of weeks back we thought you might be interested in where else we will be presenting in the coming weeks. October 13 Vinny Gullotto will be in Read More...
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National CyberSecurity Awareness Month

Posted Thursday, October 01, 2009 11:13 PM by mmpc
Today marks the beginning of National CyberSecurity Awareness Month here in the United States. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge all the security professionals around the world who work tirelessly to make cyberspace a safer place for Read More...
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