Bugs / Virus
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Sourcefire Aquires ClamAV Project
Open source innovator and SNORT creator, Sourcefire, Inc., today announced that it has acquired ClamAV, a leading open source gateway anti-virus and anti-malware project. Sourcefire's first…
Antivirus Tools Underperform When Tested in LinuxWorld 'Fight Club'
Oh, antivirus products. They're a commodity item, right? They're all pretty much the same.
Wrong, according to a live test of antivirus products for Linux conducted last night at the…
Samsung Linux printer driver modifies the permissions of many executables
After installing the Samsung Linux printer drivers of April 2007, many applications, like OpenOffice.org, open themselves with root permissions. The link shows that the installation script…
Proof of concept virus for iPods running Linux
Kaspersky Lab has discovered the first virus designed to infect iPod portable media players. The virus, which has been named Podloso, is a proof of concept program which does not pose a real…
ClamAV 0.90 Released
The ClamAV team is proud to announce the long awaited ClamAV 0.90. This version introduces lots of new interesting features and marks a big step forward in the development of the antivirus engine…
Panda software offers a free anti-malware suite for Linux
Panda Software is launching the beta version of its well known Panda DesktopSecure for Linux solution, a complete security suite for protecting Linux workstations.
The new Panda Software…
Honeyd spam trap shows that 43% of spam is sent by Linux machines
FTFA "Even though we can not identify the operating system for 53% of the connections, Linux is being used for at least 43% of all spammy connections. Solaris, Windows and FreeBSD are used…