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Five Times More Likely to Get Malware without AV

Computers with no antivirus are five times more likely to get infected with malware than those with protection, according to Microsoft. In the first quarter of 2012, the company found malicious e-mail attachments on almost 3 million computers and detected 7 million Keygens. The activation key generators that users install with “free” software, movies or games often come loaded with malware. Most users don’t...

Conficker Worm Now Shipping With German Film Scanner

German customers of retail chain Tchibo got quite a bonus when buying a Hama-manufactured slide scanner: one of the most devastating pieces of malware in the past five years. According to a report by Heise Security, the Win32.Worm.Downadup.B (also known as Conficker.B) worm was hidden in the device’s SD card, along with a specially crafted autorun.inf file supposed to execute the worm when the card is plugg...

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