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Friday, October 05, 2007

Weekly Round Up: Oct 5

This weeks round up includes alot of antivirus and phish news.

Malware Boom Too Much For Smaller AV Vendors?

YaHoo!, Ebay & PayPal Team To Fight Phishing

Storm Worm: Super Threat Or More FUD?

Improved AV Testing Coming Soon

Spam Gang Using Covert Tactic To Avoid Detection


Posted by TeMerc at 11:25 PM
Labels: AntiVirus, AV, Malware, Rock Phish, Spam, Storm

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