Symantec Security Check is a web-based scan that combines two features: a Security Scan and Virus Detection. To use it, you will be asked to download some components and add-ons (ActiveX among others). The Security Scan checks whether your computer allows unknown or unauthorized Internet communications and whether basic information about your computer (including your [...]

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I just read about the tool Malheur designed for malware analysis. It looks interesting, I don’t know what other tools like this one are out there (if you know some of them, please leave a comment) but it is worth some minutes to read through their page. After thinking some minutes about their approach using [...]

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An extract from Brian Krebs last blog post. I have often recommended file-scanning services like VirusTotal and Jotti, which allow visitors to upload a suspicious file and scan it against dozens of commercial anti-virus tools. If a scan generates any virus alerts or red flags, the report produced by the scan is shared with all [...]

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An article that describes in simple steps how an AV engine is structured. Easy to understand, not too technical and without any code. Building an Anti-Virus engine (by Markus Schmall, 2002) The article will describe the basic ideas, concepts, components and approaches involved in developing an anti-virus program from scratch from a developer’s/software engineer’s point [...]

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