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From Mary Landesman, your Guide to Antivirus Software

Internet Explorer Zero Day Discovered
A newly reported vulnerability has been discovered which impacts Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, and 8. No patch is yet available so you'll want to apply these workarounds.

Mozilla Patches Critical Firefox Flaw
Mozilla has released Firefox v3.6.12 in response to a zero day vulnerability that was discovered being actively exploited via the Nobel Peace Prize website.

Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
DEP is intended to prevent applications from executing code in non-executable regions of memory. DEP can offer important protection against zero day attacks against Internet Explorer.

Boonana Peels Down to Koobface for Macs
Dan Goodin at El Reg writes about the notorious Koobface worm being ported to Mac. The worm spreads via social engineering sites such as Facebook and Twitter and uses a... Read more

 


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