The company Dr. Web has summed up activity analysis of malicious applications in May this year.
The main events of May in the field of information security specialists called the mass dissemination of false anti-virus, best known as MacDefender.
If fake antivirus programs for Windows have become commonplace, for Mac OS X such malicious programs - still a novelty, especially in epidemic proportions.
With regard to threats to Windows, then in the past month in the Dr.Web virus bases were added to the regular update rootkits, created under 64-bit versions of operating systems.
Thus, a malicious program Trojan.Necurs has in its arsenal as a 32 - and 64-bit rootkit driver, through which bypasses restriction 64-bit versions of Windows to load unsigned drivers using the system utility bcdedit.exe. However Trojan.Necurs able to block the loading of the drivers of many anti-virus, preventing the defense of the system.
The main events of May in the field of information security specialists called the mass dissemination of false anti-virus, best known as MacDefender.
If fake antivirus programs for Windows have become commonplace, for Mac OS X such malicious programs - still a novelty, especially in epidemic proportions.
With regard to threats to Windows, then in the past month in the Dr.Web virus bases were added to the regular update rootkits, created under 64-bit versions of operating systems.
Thus, a malicious program Trojan.Necurs has in its arsenal as a 32 - and 64-bit rootkit driver, through which bypasses restriction 64-bit versions of Windows to load unsigned drivers using the system utility bcdedit.exe. However Trojan.Necurs able to block the loading of the drivers of many anti-virus, preventing the defense of the system.
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