Archives - October 2007

Safe Halloween!

Today, we are celebrating Halloween and malware authors want to be part of the fun.  They love to disguise and they love zombies even more.  To celebrate Halloween, the operators of the Storm Worm have launched a new e-mail campaign to attract users to their malicious pages and infect their systems with the latest variant

Don’t Get Burned Twice

The current fires in Southern California are causing misery to hundreds of thousands of people. ESET LLC calls San Diego home and is acutely aware of the impact this is having on people’s lives. Not only is ESET providing assistance to employees impacted by the fire, but some employees are volunteering their time and money

Nuwar Traffic Analysis

Nuwar, also known as the Storm Worm, is a very popular threat in the antivirus industry this year.  This threat has attracted a lot of attention because of its sophistication and the strenuous efforts made by its authors to maintain a strong botnet.  The botherders who operate the Nuwar botnet control infected PCs with a