Snow Leopard Gets an Anti-Virus Scanner

Apple’s commercials may give the impression that Macs are virus-free but the company isn’t taking any chances with the newest Mac OS X refresh. Apple has quietly added a new Snow Leopard feature to scan software downloads for malware, a no-brainer move that coincides with a noticeable spike in...

Snow Leopard Gets an Anti-Virus Scanner

Apple’s commercials may give the impression that Macs are virus-free but the company isn’t taking any chances with the newest Mac OS X refresh. Apple has quietly added a new Snow Leopard feature to scan software downloads for malware, a no-brainer move that coincides with a noticeable spike in...

CVE-2007-6189: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

A certain ActiveX control in 1 OScan8.ocx and 2 Oscan81.ocx in BitDefender Online Anti-Virus Scanner 8.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the InitX method that begins with a "%%" sequence, which is misinterpreted as a Unicode string and decoded twice, leadi...

[Full-disclosure] iDEFENSE Security Advisory 10.10.05: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Engine CHM File Parser Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Engine CHM File Parser Buffer Overflow Vulnerability iDEFENSE Security Advisory 10.10.05 www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=318&type=vulnerabilities October 10, 2005 I. BACKGROUND Kaspersky Anti-Virus Engine KAV is a popular virus scanning engine for Windows and Linu...