SanDisk Corporation today announced that Network Products Guide, an industry-leading publication on information technologies and solutions, has named the SanDisk® Cruzer® Enterprise with McAfee® Malware Protection a winner of the 2009 Product Innovation Award. This prestigious award recognizes vendors from all over the world whose innovative products bring essential changes to the information technology industry.

SpyZooka, an anti-spyware program designed by Blue Penguin Software, recently announced that it is able to help computer users deceived by the rogue anti-spyware XP Defender. The award winning SpyZooka removes spyware like XP Defender, adware, hijackers, Trojan horse and other security threats. SpyZooka is backed by Blue Penguin's 100% satisfaction guarantee.

PandaLabs, Panda Security's malware analysis and detection laboratory, today announced the general availability of its malware report for the first quarter of 2009. According to the report, Trojans have accounted for 73 percent of all new malware created during this period. Nevertheless, one of the main trends identified in the report is the growth of spyware, which rose from 2.5 percent in the previous quarter to 13.15 percent in the first three months of 2009.

Panda Security, a world leader in IT security, announced that it is offering Panda USB Vaccine, a free security solution designed to block malware which spreads through removable drives such as pen drives, CD/DVD drives, and other data storage devices. There is an increasing amount of malware which, like the dangerous Conficker worm, spreads via these removable drives to devices such as MP3 players, PCs, and digital cameras.

AVG Identity Protection gives computer users an additional layer of protection on top of their existing security software. IDP is specifically focused on helping to prevent thieves from using carefully-targeted attacks to steal passwords, bank account details, credit card numbers, and other digital valuables.

QFX Software Corporation today released a new upgrade for KeyScrambler®, adding three most popular MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) games, World of Warcraft, Runescape, EVE-Online, and the most popular game distribution platform, Steam, to the long list of apps supported by its paid editions, KeyScrambler Professional and KeyScrambler Premium.

Cyber-criminals are using accounts that are likely stolen to post comments with links supposedly pointing to videos of celebrities such as Christian Bale, Megan Fox or Jessica Simpson. Users that try to watch these videos will be asked to download a codec. This codec, however, is just a copy of VideoPlay adware.

Sunbelt Software, a leading provider of Windows security software, today announced the top ten most prevalent spyware and malware threats for the month of January 2009. The report, compiled from monthly scans performed by Sunbelt's award-winning antispyware tool, CounterSpy™, and its new anti-malware solution, VIPRE™ Antivirus + Antispyware , is a service of the Sunbelt Software Malware Research Labs.

Internet security vendors were put on alert as news of a computer threat, dubbed "The Obama worm", spread across the industry earlier this week. The "Obama worm" was discovered on the network of a K-12 school and first reported by Walling Data, North America's top distributor of AVG Internet Security Products. Only on Mondays a semi-transparent image of the President's face pops up in the bottom right hand corner of infected computers. The threat is more of nuisance than a serious threat but can completely destroy a machine's ability to function.

PandaLabs, Panda Security's malware analysis and detection laboratory, today revealed that almost six percent (5.77 percent) of the two million computers they scanned showed an infection by the malicious Conficker worm. The worm, which originated in China, has now extended across 83 countries, and is particularly virulent in the United States, Spain, Taiwan, Brazil and Mexico. In the U.S. alone, PandaLabs has identified at least 18,000 infected computers, although the real figure could be much higher.