Doctor Web – the Russian anti-virus vendor – has reviewed most notable viral events of 2009. Let’s take a closer look at the most notable types of malware found in the malicious traffic in 2009 and outline main trends in development of viruses. read more
12/7/2009
Neutralization of TDL3 and other virus events of November
Successful neutralization of a new modification of the rootkit BackDoor.Tdss, that used different hiding techniques to remain undetected and provided an intruder with the full control over a compromised system, became the main event of the past month. read more
The Dr.Web anti-virus from Doctor Web turned out to be the only one out of 7 widely used anti-virus programs that wouldn’t give in to participants of the International Alternative Workshop on Aggressive under the aegis of the ESIEA. read more
The French ISP ELP Informatique operating in the suburbs of Paris has successfully deployed the Dr.Web AV-Desk Internet service by Doctor Web brining reliable anti-virus security to its customers. read more
Doctor Web presents the virus activity review for the first six months of 2009. ATM malware, new threats for Mac OS X and the first large botnet comprised of web-resources became the most significant events of the past half-year. read more
6/1/2009
Doctor Web ends support for its 4.33 products on July 1, 2009
The Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web ends support for its products based on the 4.33 anti-virus engine on July 1, 2009. All customers using 4.33 solutions are recommended to switch to later versions of Dr.Web anti-virus software. read more
The April virus activity review from Doctor Web features a description of latest samples of ransomware and the latest modification of BackDoor.Maosboot using new rootkit technologies. read more
4/29/2009
Update of Dr.Web Security Space and Dr.Web anti-virus 5.0 for Windows
Doctor Web — the Russian anti-virus vendor — released Dr.Web for Kerio WinRoute. The anti-virus application used with Kerio Winroute Firewall performs anti-virus scan of network traffic providing reliable anti-virus security for home users and business. read more
Doctor Web presents a review of activities of malicious programs in March 2009. The last month saw increased usage of malware by online fraudsters, growing botnets and spammers advertising their own business. read more
Doctor Web presents the virus activity review for February 2009. As a traditional January “vacation” came to an end, cyber criminals got back to their work. The last month saw a significantly increased number of malicious programs used to turn computers read more
2/27/2009
Ralph Kreter heads branch office of Doctor Web in Germany
Doctor Web releases an update of sw modules of Dr.Web Security Space and Anti-virus 5.0 for Windows. The update fixes several errors and adds new features including improved scan of autorun objects, support of Windows themes and the update speed indicator read more
Doctor Web presents the virus activity review for January 2009. The first month of 2009 went rather smoothly except for the outbreak of Win32.HLLW.Shadow.based. It didn’t see mass mailings spreading malicious code in attachments... read more
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