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February 2010

Safety Tips for Online Valentines

Online daters are warned about the increased security risks of identity theft and scams associated with using the Internet when looking for love.


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February 2010

Autorun and JavaScript now main source of infection says BitDefender

Computer users’ growing demands for online interaction exposes them to all sorts of malicious software.


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January 2010

BitDefender Posts Removal Tool for Zimuse Virus

Recently discovered malware that masquerades as an IQ test, combines virus, rootkit and worm — malicious code for one fatal formula.


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January 2010

Which? Computing rates BitDefender Total Security ‘best for beginners’.

BitDefender has been rated ‘best for beginners’ by Which? Computing, in its recent review of Computer Security Suites.


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January 2010

Critical Zero-Day Exploits Hit Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader

Vulnerability in two of the world’s most popular applications part of recent attack on Google and Adobe; millions of users still exposed.


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January 2010

Malware exploit linked to Adobe PDF reader, tops BitDefender’s top ten e-threats report for December

A generic detection which deals with specially crafted PDF files exploiting different vulnerabilities found in Adobe PDF Reader’s Javascript engine has topped BitDefender’s top ten e-threat report for December.


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December 2009

BitDefender warns of risks associated with online shopping at work

Don’t let this holiday season be tarnished by identity theft; Shop online safely


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December 2009

BitDefender publishes Conficker whitepaper

‘Conficker – One Year After’ details how the Conficker worm has spread since 2008 and how it could become a bigger threat in 2010.


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December 2009

Growing malware threat associated with use of memory sticks

According to BitDefender, the biggest risk to computer users is currently Trojan.AutorunINF.Gen, a generic family of malware abusing the Autorun feature in Microsoft Windows operating systems.


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