Thompson Cyber Security Labs published a study according to which, amongst current desktop security software, Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 2007 suite is the best at detecting and removing stealth rootkits.

In the study, which was commissioned by Symantec and conducted by veteran anti-virus expert Roger Thompson, 20 arbitrarily selected pieces of rootkit-laden malware files were used against the major anti-virus and anti-spyware vendors to scale detection and elimination capabilities.

Symantec Corp. has publicized the availability of its Mobile AntiVirus 4.0 for Windows Mobile, a software that automatically protects mobile devices from security threats received via e-mail and multimedia messaging service (MMS), downloaded from memory cards, the mobile network and Wi-Fi, transmitted by Bluetooth or beamed over infrared connections.

In its infinite wisdom, Microsoft has awarded MVP status to a software developer who pushed adware through his Messenger Plus program. It doesn?t install it without asking, but the adware he is pushing is Lop.

Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package, which you can use with your own software. Most importantly, the virus database is kept up to date .

Microsoft issued a rare, out-of-cycle Windows patch on Tuesday that fixed one flaw, but attacks through other known, yet-to-be-plugged holes continue.

Microsoft on Wednesday warned of "limited zero-day attacks" that exploit a new flaw in PowerPoint, Microsoft's widely used presentation tool. For the attack to be carried out, a user must first open a malicious PowerPoint file attached to an e-mail or otherwise provided to them by an attacker, Microsoft said in a security advisory.

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