CVE-2012-1453

The CAB file parser in Dr.Web 5.0.2.03300, Trend Micro HouseCall 9.120.0.1004, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, Trend Micro AntiVirus 9.120.0.1004, McAfee Gateway formerly Webwasher 2010.1C, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, CA eTrust Vet Antivirus 36.1.8511, Antiy Labs AVL...

Google Search Now Displaying Warning About Malware Infections

Google is taking the unusual step of displaying a message at the top of its search results pages for some users, alerting them to the fact that their computers may be infected with malware. The action is the result of an investigation in which the search giant discovered that some malware-infecte...

New Chinese MBR Rootkit Identified

A new rootkit that uses the master boot record MBR to hide itself has been discovered in China and is being used to install an online game password stealer. The bootkit is installed on the computer by a trojan downloader distributed from a Chinese adult site and is detected by Kaspersky as...

Midterm Election Buzz Fuels Rogue AV Attacks

Interest in the U.S. midterm elections is being used to lure Web surfers to malicious Web pages that are pushing rogue antivirus programs, according to security firm Websense. With voter interest running high in the U.S., Web searches for hot terms like “midterm election polls,” “2010 midterm...

FreeBSD Ports: p5-Archive-Zip

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory. VID a5742055-300a-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from vuxml or freebsd advisories Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc...

AntiAntivirus (Internet can be ruined by antivrus)

Will AntiVirus ruin the Internet? 3APA3A security.nnov.ru Dmitry Leonov bugtraq.ru Alex Exler exler.ru Alexander Dilevsky yandex.ru Alexander Antipov securitylab.ru Ilya Medvedovsky dsec.ru Vladislav Myasnyankin BugTraq.Ru The seemingly uncomplicated mail worm Sobig.f broke all distribution...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : perl-Archive-Zip (MDKSA-2004:118)

Recently, it was noticed that several antivirus programs miss viruses that are contained in ZIP archives with manipulated directory data. The global archive directory of these ZIP file have been manipulated to indicate zero file sizes. Archive::Zip produces files of zero length when decompressing...