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Intel to acquire McAfee for $7.7 Billion

Most of you have probably heard that Intel announced that it will acquire McAfee for almost $8 billion dollars. What I find interesting is that Intel paid $48 per share or about 60% more than the $30 per share where McAfee had been trading at. There are a lot of discussions about why Intel did [...]

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Cell phone virus writer arrested in Spain

Spanish police arrested a 28 year old man for writing several variants of the Cabir and Commwarrior viruses. These viruses targeted the Symbian operating system which is a popular cell phone OS. It was spread through Bluetooth connections. They are reporting that over 115,000 phones were infected. How did they catch him? He put his [...]

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ESET’s NOD32 Antivirus

I try not to write about or endorse products as a rule. Every now and then I come across a product that warrants a post. I’ve been a long time Symantec antivirus user, much of it a holdover from the Symantec System Center days. The latest versions, from Symantec and others like Trend Micro, seem [...]

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Worm articles & presentations

The JoatBlog posted links to conference materials from last years Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM). A lot of great material worms, bots and other nastys can be found here. –Chris Technorati Tags: worm, bot, malcode

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Virus targets AntiVirus researchers, sort of.

A new virus was detected in early July that reportedly targets AV researchers. The virus, know as Gatt / Gattaca, will scan an infected system for any files with the .idc extension and infect them. These .idc files are disassembler files used by Interactive Disassembler Pro, a very common tool used by AV researchers to [...]

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