We have a beta of a new product available for download on our beta pages .

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F-Secure PC Booster beta

Jarno Niemelä from our lab did a study on malicious Windows binaries that have been signed ( with Microsoft Authenticode ).

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It’s Signed, therefore it’s Clean, right?

An addition to the roster of digital devices that have been shipped with malware, Samsung, too, seems to have accidentally distributed malware along with the new Bada-powered Samsung S8500 Wave smartphone. It has been reported that the 1GB microSD cards included with the mobile phone units shipped to Germany contain preinstalled Windows-based malware.

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Infected S8500 Wave Phones Make it to Germany

Nothing drives a business like customer demand. When customers say they want X or they’ll go with competition, well, you do it or risk losing their business

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Microsoft security IS “good enough” and that’s the problem

Some folks read Wednesday’s post about autorun-worm infected Samsung Wave microSD cards and commented — thank goodness Windows 7 fixes that issue. Only optical media is allowed to AutoPlay on Windows 7, so USB devices can’t spread autorun-worms. Right?

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Windows 7 AutoPlay and Virtual CDs

More and more mobile phones are shipping with Windows installation files on microSD cards rather than on CD-ROMs. All that’s needed to sync your phone with your PC is to connect the phone, detect it as a removable USB drive, and then run the installer. Many phone vendors also include an autorun.inf file to assist the process

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Samsung Wave Autorun.inf

July 13th is just 8 weeks away and that’s when Microsoft plans end security support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 . Statistics from our Service Provider partners show that only about 9 to 10% of our consumer customers are running Windows XP SP2. But what about businesses, non-profits and schools

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Do you use Windows XP SP2?

Microsoft recently announced it had withdrawn its MS10-025 security update when they found the update didn’t adequately address the underlying issue it was intended to fix. The update and subsequent withdrawal affects only Windows 2000 servers that have the optional Windows Media Service installed

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MS10-025 Withdrawn For Now

Avid readers of the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Blog (and really, how can you not be?) know that yesterday, April 13th, marked the end of support for Windows Vista RTM , also known as Windows Vista SP0. We’d like to say that we’ll miss Vista RTM.

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RIP Windows Vista RTM

We have discovered a threat affecting the Windows Mobile platform that dials several high-cost international phone numbers.

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Mobile Game Bundled with Malware