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Symantec Brightmail Gateway 8.0.3 released

By Ian McShane | October 28, 2009 3:31AM
 I'm delighted to announce that we have shipped the latest update to Symantec Brightmail Gateway. The v8.0.3 release is a really important one as we get closer and closer to releasing version 9.0 next year. This update includes support for VMWare vSphere 4.0 as well as fixing over 75 bugs. Read more
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Samir Patil
“When we analyzed spam data from the past few years, we observed that holiday seasons spirit up malware spam campaigns using e-cards, video player downloads or ActiveX download attacks. We have found that greeting card or e-card spam are the most common. Due to this reason spammers are employing this...”
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Festi Botnet spins up to become one of the main spamming botnets
Daren Lewis
“Posted on behalf of Dan Bleaken, Malware Data Analyst MessageLabs Intelligence has been tracking a new botnet, ‘Festi’ since the beginning of August. ...”
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Dermot Harnett
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Fragus Exploit Kit Changes the Business Model
Peter Coogan
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Phishing Attach
Joji Hamada
“Recently, I've been seeing phishing attacks using Web forms attached to emails making the rounds again. This type of phishing isn't so common but is used on occasion, so I want to take this opportunity to remind everyone not to fall for this trick. ...”
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OSX.Loosemaque: It’s Not Just a Game Anymore
Ben Nahorney
“Threats targeting the Macintosh platform are much less common than those targeting Windows. The same can be said about video games, where Windows is the dominate platform of the two. Combining games and malware has happened before, but a Mac game performing malicious activities? That’s...”
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Keep Your Mobile Number Secret on the Internet
Mayur Kulkarni
“Symantec has always recommended that personal information, especially financial information such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, and of course your email address must not be revealed anywhere on the Internet. Many security experts also believe that disclosing an IP address to an...”
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Users of Social Networking Websites Face Malware and Phishing Attacks
Mayur Kulkarni
“Symantec recently reported a malicious spam campaign against Facebook, which is now accompanied by a phishing attack. These messages look like an official Facebook invite or password reset confirmation mail. ...”
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Advance fee fraud lottery scam using a popular online file transfer service
Daren Lewis
“This post is made on behalf of my colleague Nicholas Johnston ...”
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Trojan.Whitewell: What’s your (bot) Facebook Status Today?
Andrea Lelli
“Sure we have heard a lot about bots and botnets. One key component of a botnet is the command-and-control (C&C) server, which as we know can come in several flavours (IRC, Web pages, newsgroups, custom servers, etc.). ...”
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Study Reveals Small Businesses Lack Security Policies
Sheri Atwood
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64-bit RedHat compatability
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“Anyone looking for Scan Engine support on RedHat 64-bit may soon get their wish granted. I got a webcase recently and it was escalated to backline who have said they put in a feature request for Scan Engine to get certified on 64-bit version of RedHat Enterperise Linux (RHEL). Currently we...”
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Tales from the Crypt
Shunichi Imano
“Symantec Security Response has become aware of a Trojan Horse we detect as Trojan.Ramvicrype. The Trojan uses the RC4 algorithm to encrypt files on compromised computers, rendering them unusable. Presence of files with a .vicrypt extension is a sure-fire sign of infection. ...”
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Working with Government on IT Security Automation Solutions
Joe Pendry
“This week, Symantec participated in the 5th Annual IT Security Automation Conference held in Baltimore from October 26-30. This event is jointly sponsored by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Department...”
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Xrumer: The Spammer’s Toolkit
Patrick Fitzgerald
“While looking through some recent customer submissions a particular filename caught my attention. It was called “googlewaveinvitegenerator.exe”. Google Wave is a new communication application being developed by Google. Many people who missed the initial sign up for this application are...”
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Know Current Definition date from Registry
Acretian
“Registry Location For SEP HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\AV   For SAV HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\INTEL\LANDesk\VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion On the Key you can find two Values   ...”
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PhoneSnoop: Spying on Blackberry Users
Eric Chien
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Symantec Brightmail Gateway 8.0.3 released
Ian McShane
“ I'm delighted to announce that we have shipped the latest update to Symantec Brightmail Gateway. The v8.0.3 release is a really important one as we get closer and closer to releasing version 9.0 next year. This update includes support for VMWare vSphere 4.0 as well as fixing over 75 bugs. ...”
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vdefhub.zip and Windows Vista
sandip_sali
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