McAfee on Monday released its latest spam report including the list of the Top 25 men and women found in spam subject lines in 2009.
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A look at the five most essential patches of the past year.
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A look back at the good news and the bad news in data security over the past year.
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InformationWeek's Bob Evans has published his list of the top 10 CIO issues for the coming year.
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Backdoor.Tidserv.I!inf is a detection for legitimate system driver files that have been modified by Backdoor.Tidserv to load other malicious components.
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Symantec describes the Trojan.Vundo!gen1 threat as "very low." It is a heuristic detection used to detect threats associated with the Trojan.Vundo family on Windows-based PCs.
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iPhoneOS.Ikee.B is a worm that spreads through jailbroken iPhones by using the default SSH password.
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Packed.Generic.267 is a heuristic detection for files that may have been obfuscated or encrypted in order to conceal them from antivirus software.
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Trojan.Whitewell is a Trojan horse that opens a back door on the compromised computer.
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Bloodhound.Exploit.278 is a heuristic detection for files attempting to exploit the Microsoft GDI+ PNG File Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.
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Bloodhound.Exploit.277 is a heuristic detection for files attempting to exploit the Microsoft GDI+ PNG File Processing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (BID 36645).
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Downloader.Ergrun is a Trojan horse that may download files on to the compromised computer.
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Bloodhound.Exploit.273 is a heuristic detection for files attempting to exploit the Microsoft GDI+ WMF File Processing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.
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SecurityTool is a misleading application that may give exaggerated reports of threats on the computer.
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Packed.Generic.257 is a heuristic detection for files that may have been obfuscated or encrypted in order to conceal them from antivirus software.
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Packed.Generic.257 is a heuristic detection for files that may have been obfuscated or encrypted in order to conceal them from antivirus software.
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VBS.Invadesys.B is a worm that spreads by copying itself to all drives on the compromised computer.
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Packed.Generic.254 is a heuristic detection for files that may have been obfuscated or encrypted in order to conceal them from antivirus software.
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AntiVirus2010 is a misleading application that may give exaggerated reports of threats on the computer.
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W32.SillyFDC.BCW is a worm that spreads by copying itself to removable and shared drives.
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