KLA10050 SB vulnerability in AVG

An unspecified vulnerability was found in AVG Anti-virus. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can bypass security restrictions. This vulnerability can be exploited at a point related to the AVG parsing engine via a specially designed RAR or ZIP archive. Original advisories...

Authentication flaw

McAfee GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange on Exchange Server 2000, and possibly other anti-virus or anti-spam products from McAfee or other vendors, does not scan X- headers for malicious content, which allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via a crafted message, as demonstrated by a...

CVE-2009-1491

McAfee GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange on Exchange Server 2000, and possibly other anti-virus or anti-spam products from McAfee or other vendors, does not scan X- headers for malicious content, which allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via a crafted message, as demonstrated by a...

CVE-2009-1491

McAfee GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange on Exchange Server 2000, and possibly other anti-virus or anti-spam products from McAfee or other vendors, does not scan X- headers for malicious content, which allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via a crafted message, as demonstrated by a...

McAfee Antivirus ZIP / RAR Scan Evasion

The McAfee antivirus application installed on the remote host is affected by a scan evasion vulnerability due to the virus definitions being out of date. In this case, the DAT file version of the installed antivirus product is prior to 5600. An attacker can exploit this, by embedding malicious co...

CVE-2009-1348

The AV engine before DAT 5600 in McAfee VirusScan, Total Protection, Internet Security, SecurityShield for Microsoft ISA Server, Security for Microsoft Sharepoint, Security for Email Servers, Email Gateway, and Active Virus Defense allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via 1 an invali...

Authentication flaw

The AV engine before DAT 5600 in McAfee VirusScan, Total Protection, Internet Security, SecurityShield for Microsoft ISA Server, Security for Microsoft Sharepoint, Security for Email Servers, Email Gateway, and Active Virus Defense allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via 1 an invali...

CVE-2009-1348

The AV engine before DAT 5600 in McAfee VirusScan, Total Protection, Internet Security, SecurityShield for Microsoft ISA Server, Security for Microsoft Sharepoint, Security for Email Servers, Email Gateway, and Active Virus Defense allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via 1 an invali...

ESET Antivirus CAB Scan Evasion

The ESET antivirus application installed on the remote host is affected by a scan evasion vulnerability due to the virus definitions being out of date. In this case, the virus signature database file version of the installed antivirus product is prior to 4036. An attacker can exploit this, by...

Health scares can provide lessons for security

The swine flu outbreak has inspired a flood of comparisons and false analogies to Conficker and other worms, most of which miss the many key differences between the Internet infrastructure and the human population. But there are lessons that security personnel can learn from the ways that health...

Trend Micro OfficeScan DoS

Crash during virus scanning on large number of folders with long names...

Mac OS X malware turns into DoS botnet

Multiple news outlets ZDNet, CBC, The Register and Washington Post are reporting on what appears to be the first malicious botnet made up only of machine’s running Apple’s Mac operating system. The botnet is directly linked to a previously known Trojan that was embedded into pirated copies of...

AVG Anti-Virus Version Detection (Linux)

This script detect the installed version of AVG Anti-Virus and sets the result in KB. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbavgavdetectlin.nasl 7823 2017-11-20 08:54:04Z cfischer $ AVG Anti-Virus Version Detection Linux Authors: Sharath S Script modified by Sujit Ghosal Date: 2009-05-27 NOTE: Pattern...

Denial of Service vulnerability in AVG Anti-Virus (Linux)

This host is installed with AVG Anti-Virus and is prone to Denial of Service Vulnerability. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbavgavdosvulnlin.nasl 4865 2016-12-28 16:16:43Z teissa $ Denial of Service vulnerability in AVG Anti-Virus Linux Authors: Sharath S Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone...

AVG Anti-Virus Detection (Linux/Unix SSH Login)

This script detect the installed version of AVG Anti-Virus. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

AVG Anti-Virus <= 7.5.51 DoS Vulnerability - Linux

AVG Anti-Virus is prone to a denial of service DoS vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:avg:anti-virus"...

Conficker botnet not nearly as large as feared

An analysis of the Conficker peer-to-peer network set up by the latest variant of the worm shows that the size of the network is far smaller than originally thought. Estimates of the size of the botnet have run far into the millions, but analysts at Kaspersky Lab have been observing the network a...

Scammers use Ford to drive users to scareware

From The Register John Leyden Scareware scammers are trying to game search engines into promoting crudware sites when a surfer searches for information on Ford cars. The Ford scareware campaign pandasecurity.com features around one million links, all targeting the Ford Motor Company, designed to...

The Virus Safe Computing Initiative from HP

This Google Tech Talk features Dr. Alan Karp of HP Labs, who details the company’s Virus Safe Computing Initiative...

Counterpoint: Market share not the only obstacle for mobile viruses

The looming mobile malware threat of the past decade has yet to materialize. The reason for its lack of fruition, according to scientists, is due to geography and the lack of a dominant market shareholder. However well done the math, the scientific study is flawed nonetheless. “Understanding the...