A design error has been found in the ‘ntdll’ DLL in Windows which would allow an malicious attacker to place a virus on a system which would be bypassed by most of the major Anti-Virus products.
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Introduction

Welcome to the March edition of the InternetDefence Ham, Spam & Virus Report.
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Introduction

Welcome to the February edition of the InternetDefence Ham, Spam & Virus Report.
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We’ve just seen a new trojan come up. The various virus databases failed to pick it up (well, the dozen or so that we tried it with), with the exception of BitDefender which picked it up via heuristic detection. The Social Engineering component is quite good - as shown below. Who would expect a virus from HMRC.
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Phew. We’re currently seeing a relatively large number of new brepibot variants arriving - a new one about every hour. Somebody is being busy.
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The Bagle.BW Worm. Just another bagle variant? Maybe. Maybe not.
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Yay! A new email carried virus is out - before sigs. seem to be available from the various vendors - well clamav at any rate.
We seem to be stopping it quite nicely.
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Here’s our list of the Top Ten Viruses (for this month so far).

Descriptions can be found in the F-Secure Computer Virus Information Center and a description why virus naming schema is ‘just all wrong’ ™ can be found at the Clam Antivirus website.

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