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The first computer virus was designed for an Apple computer, by a 15 year old

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Contrary to popular belief, the first widespread computer virus that actively spread ‘in-the-wild’ was designed to target Apple computers. This might surprise some staunch Apple users who still feel that their Macs are completely invincible and cannot be infected with any kind of malware whatsoever. In this post we will discuss the Elk Cloner virus, […]

A history of Mac malware: The Apple of a virus developer’s eye

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Apple Macs are falsely believed to be invincible and completely safe against malware threats and security breaches. But as we recently discussed, this perpetual myth has gradually been broken over the years. Apple has subtly acknowledged this fact over the last year or so and has made major upheavals in their marketing strategies as a […]

Manhattan Court charges creators of Gozi, the world’s most destructive financial virus

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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In a landmark development for the cyber security world, three cyber criminals have been charged in a Federal Manhattan Court in New York for stealing ‘tens of millions of dollars’ from online banking customers. The hackers were guilty of running Gozi, one of the most advanced and financially destructive viruses ever seen in the world. […]

Your Apple Mac does not need computer security: Myth or not?

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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There is a widespread misconception in the mainstream computing market that Apple Macs are more secure than Windows machines. In fact, some staunch Apple lovers even feel that since virus threats for Macs do not exist, no system protection software is essential. But how accurate is this belief? Our expertise in the computer security industry […]

The persistent threat of PC malware: Top Windows malware families of 2012

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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2012 has seen various malware threats and international cyberespionage tools evolve to new heights. However, the PC still remains the most accessible device for invading homes and planting malware. The number and nature of malware received by the Quick Heal Research & Development Labs in 2012 highlighted this fact. The findings of the Annual Windows […]

New ransomware spreads through malicious links in Skype IMs

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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A new malicious worm that spreads through Instant Messages (IMs) over Skype has been discovered. This worm manifests itself as yet another variation of ransomware and also unloads itself to generate a click fraud from the users’ machine. The worm is a strain of the Dorkbot virus and it utilizes the notorious Blackhole security exploit […]

Infographic: Quick Heal’s DNAScan Technology

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 14 years
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As the proliferation of the Internet and the use and abuse of Web 2.0 increases, computer users are exposed to zero-day threats and risks that propagate in real-time. Any access to the Internet without protection is no doubt clogged with spyware, adware and dangerous bots. It doesn’t stop at this, the situation gets trickier even […]

NPAV – Net Protector AntiVirus truth exposed

  • Sanjay Katkar / 14 years
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Since the last 3-4 days we have come across a lot of cases of reported infection of W32.Xpaj virus and surprisingly, found Net Protector Antivrus (NPAV) installed on the computers of all those cases. We were surprised to find the connection and were attempting to find the connection between this malware and the dubious NPAV […]