ESET’s August ThreatSense report is now available on the Threat Center page.

As you might expect, I don’t by any means agree that AV is a dead parrot, though I’m not going to claim that it detects everything (or anywhere near that) either.

…the latest crop of malicious web pages to go up includes hooks such as “Bin Laden alive”, “in depth details about the terrorist attack”, “police investigation results” and “towers going down”,…

The authors of Win32/Qbot (a.k.a. Qakbot) are back with new variants of this infamous malware, and this time the binaries are digitally signed. Qbot is a multifunctional trojan that has had some significant impact in the past. It has also been around a while, with the first variants dating as far back as spring 2007,