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[drhayden1]

Ad-Aware Update
SE1R165 has been released today.
New definitions:
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Superutilbar +2
Win32.Trojan.MancSyn

Updated definitions:
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Adware.Agent +7
Adware.NaviPromo
Adware.NewWeb
BDSearch Plugin +2
Dialer +6
FakeAlert +7
Lop +5
MalwareWipe +2
PestTrap
PurityScan
Softomate Toolbar +2
SpyLocked +2
SpywareSheriff
Win32.Backdoor.Agent +4
Win32.Backdoor.Bifrose +2
Win32.Backdoor.Hupigon +4
Win32.Backdoor.IRCBot
Win32.Backdoor.PcClient +3
Win32.Backdoor.Poebot +3
Win32.Backdoor.RBot +6
Win32.Backdoor.SDBot +5
Win32.Backdoor.VanBot +6
Win32.Generic.PWS +4
Win32.Trojan.Agent +6
Win32.Trojan.Delf +2
Win32.Trojan.Downloader
Win32.Trojan.Keylogger +6
Win32.Trojan.Klone
Win32.Trojan.Qhost +6
Win32.Trojan.Spambot +2
Win32.Trojan.Spy +3
Win32.Trojan.Starter +2
Win32.Trojan.StartPage +3
Win32.TrojanClicker +4
Win32.TrojanDownloader.Adload +3
Win32.TrojanDownloader.Agent +6
Win32.TrojanDownloader.Banload +38
Win32.TrojanDownloader.ConHook +4
Win32.TrojanDownloader.Cryptic +2
Win32.TrojanDownloader.Delf
Win32.TrojanDownloader.Nurech
Win32.TrojanDownloader.Obfuscated
Win32.TrojanDownloader.Qoologic +3
Win32.TrojanDropper +1
Win32.TrojanProxy.Agent.dl +4
Win32.Trojan-PSW.Lineage +6
Win32.TrojanPWS.LdPinch
Win32.TrojanPWS.Lmir +4
Win32.TrojanPWS.OnlineGames +19
Win32.TrojanPWS.QQPass +9
Win32.TrojanPWS.WOW +2
Win32.TrojanSpy.Banker +10
Win32.TrojanSpy.BZub +3
Win32.TrojanSpy.Goldun +3
Win32.Worm.Viking
Win32.Worm.Zhelatin +3
Virtumonde +4

MD5 checksum is 1db885f95f3b2522f6d62ba81ce8db40

You can use Webupdate to install the new reference file, or download it manually from:
http://download.lavasoft.com/public/defs.zip

If you think something needs to be sent to us for review, visit our submission site at:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/securit...submit_file.php

If you have any questions, please contact us at:
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com

Comodo BOClean Update....
FILEDATE: 2007-04-10 05:57:39 (UTC)

EIGHTEEN new nasties for a total of 23359 UNIQUE infectors (276,438 variants of these including trojans, worms, bots, hijackers, downloaders, spam proxies, rootkits, adware, spyware, keyloggers, "dialers" and other malware in total) covered in today's update for BOClean 4.22. BOClean 4.23 for VISTA and others coming in about a week.

Please also note that if you ever miss an update (or several) the update you collect includes *ALL* previous update information. There is no need to go hunting down other updates. The current one is always complete.
http://www.nsclean.com/trolist.html

A-Squared Update....
2007-04-10 02:14:
Signature update
873 Signatures: 705 Trojans, 0 Dialers, 4 Worms and 164 Spywares
http://www.emsisoft.com/a2/changelog/free/
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/support/malware

Spy Sweeper Update....
Program Version 5.3.2.2361
Spyware Definitions v. 893
Definitions Last Updated: Monday, April 9, 2007
Protection against 172,742known traces.
http://www.webroot.com/wb/products/spysweeper

[Lisandro]

Ultimate Boot CD Full 4.0.3

You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives, Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive, or Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD.

The "Full" version of UBCD includes INSERT, a Linux distribution based on Knoppix.

http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/
http://fileforum.betanews.com/sendfile/1066657762/1/ubcd403.exe

[Marc57]

New updates available on Windows update.

[bob3160]

New updates available on Windows update.

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[bob3160]

Restart required after the Windows update.

[drhayden1]

thanks...guess i'll have to reboot now

An update is available for Windows Defender on Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931099
An update for Windows Defender on Windows Vista has been released. The update corrects a problem in the functionality of Windows Defender malware sample submission. This update applies only to Windows Defender version 1.1.1505.0 on Windows Vista. This problem does not occur in Windows Defender version 1.1.1592.0. This problem also does not occur in later versions of Windows

AVG Anti-Rootkit Free
Version: 1.1.0.42
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390#avg-anti-rootkit-free
Minimum system requirements
MS Windows 2000 (32-Bit) or MS Windows XP (32-Bit)
AVG Anti-Rootkit is available in English only
Note: No support for the above program
See the press release of Grisoft on the above today:
http://grisoft.com/doc/62200/us/crp/0

Secunia Software Inspector Update
http://secunia.com/software_inspector/
Secunia has updated the Secunia Software Inspector with new rules for detecting insecure software.
Minimum Requirements in running the Software Inspector of Secunia:
* Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows 2003
* Sun Java JRE 1.5.0_06
* Internet Explorer 6.x, Opera 9.x, or Firefox 1.5.x
* Latest version of Microsoft Windows Update
Note: To receive reminder via email on the above, simply go to Secunia Software Inspector website, click "Reminder Service" at the right.

[drhayden1]

Opera 9.20 Build 8771
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/920/
http://www.opera.com/download/
Release Notes
Opera 9.20 introduces Speed Dial and Developer Tools.
The search engine in Speed Dial can be chosen in Search preferences. This release dynamically merges a default set of searches with your custom searches.
This release is a recommended security upgrade. See the Security section for additional information.
A separate changelog listing changes since Beta 1 is available.
Security
Fix for character encoding inheritance issue with frames, which could enable cross-site scripting. See the advisory.
Fixed an issue regarding handling of FTP PASV response, as reported by Mark at bindshell.net
XMLHttpRequest now treats separate ports on the same server as a different server. Issue reported by Egmont Koblinger.
Fixed an issue where scripts could continue to run after leaving the page, as reported by Herrmann Manuel.
Skandiabanken.no's message about successful certificate installation is now shown.

Belarc Advisor Security Definitions
Version 2007.4.10.1
http://www.belarc.com/advisor_update.html
File version: 7.2.11.5
This Belarc Advisor Security Definitions Update installs the latest version of the Belarc Advisor's security definitions which includes all Microsoft security bulletins through April 10, 2007. This update ensures that the System Security Status panel in the computer profile report reflects the true number of missing Microsoft Security Upda

[drhayden1]

Spybot Update....
2007-04-11
Adware
++ Zango.AntiSpamBar ++ Zango.Seekmo
Keylogger
+ Perfect Keylogger (2) ++ WideStep
Malware
++ Free-Key-Logger + InetLoader + Smitfraud-C. (2) + SpyDawn + SpyHunter ++ Win32.Agent.ahd ++ Win32.Optix.b
Trojan
+ 1und1Bill.Fake + Hupigon + NumbSoft + Win32.Lager.aq ++ Zlob.MovieBox + Zlob.PrivateVideo + WarezP2P
Total: 373599 fingerprints in 64879 rules for 2804 products.
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html
Please remember to Re-Immunize after updating!

Spyware Doctor Smart Update....
Spyware Doctor to 5.07080.
Updated with 439,901 intelli-signatures.
Spyware Doctor 5.0
http://www.pctools.com/product/download/

A-Squared Update....
2007-04-12 01:47:
Signature update
3668 Signatures: 3074 Trojans, 337 Dialers, 26 Worms and 231 Spywares
http://www.emsisoft.com/a2/changelog/free/
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/support/malware...malware=updates

A-Squared Anti-Malware 2.5 BETA Released
Available through the beta online update.
New and improved features:
Non admin support: The whole application can be run with limited rights now, but it is still capable of scanning all folders on the disk and watch all running programs, because the scan functionality was moved to a Windows Service that runs with system rights.
Vista support: a-squared Anti-Malware now runs also on Vista 32. Important note for Vista users: If you install the version 2.1 setup, you have to run a-squared Anti-Malware with admin rights (Right click - Run as admin). Otherwise the updater will not be able to update to version 2.5 beta!
Decreased memory consumption: The average RAM usage has been decreased for about 50%!
New Anti-Malware Network: Detected heuristic files can be sent to the Anti-Malware Network for further analysis. This helps us to improve the scanner quality with the power of heuristics. False alerts can be quickly fixed and signatures for new malware can be provided much faster. You can choose to automatically deliver detected heuristic files (only heuristic files) at the update process, or manually transfer files via the quarantine. If you have a question to a specific file, you can enter a message and contact details to get a reply with a file analysis.
New rights management: Administrators can configure permissions for each single user on the local PC or Active Directory.
Extended cookie scan: The new scanner scans all user accounts for Tracking Cookies instead of only the current user account.
Extended Quarantine: Files can be manually added to the quarantine. Quarantined files can be saved to a specific folder, e.g. to send them by email, as zipped secured file.
Extended Malware-IDS: Autoruns The IDS is now able to alert newly created autoruns and the according program which tries to create the autorun.
Extended Malware-IDS: Hosts The IDS is now able to alert hosts file changes. This is not new, but the new version is able to report the application which tries to edit the hosts file too.
Extended Malware-IDS: Hidden installs The IDS now alerts hidden installation attempts of programs.
Extended Malware-IDS: Virus watch The IDS now alerts programs that try to edit (patch) other executable files, like viruses do.
Extended Malware-IDS: Rootkits The IDS now detects hidden rootkit processes.
Improved user interface: The guard settings have been split into two separate menu items: Guard and Settings. That avoids horizontal scrolling at the tabs.
Improved a-squared HiJackFree: The system analysis and configuration tool was extended a lot. A detail changelog containing all HiJackFree changes will be posted in an extra thread.
More Info: a-squared support forums
http://forum.emsisoft.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=2003

[drhayden1]

and a thursday(my time zone) windows update...i didn't see it yesterday or tuesday

[drhayden1]

Comodo BOClean update....
LEDATE: 2007-04-12 01:22:40 (UTC)
SEVENTY-FIVE MORE new nasties for a total of 23469 UNIQUE infectors (276,772 variants of these including trojans, worms, bots, hijackers, downloaders, spam proxies, rootkits, adware, spyware, keyloggers, "dialers" and other malware in total) covered in today's update for BOClean 4.22. BOClean 4.23 for VISTA and others coming in about a week.
Please also note that if you ever miss an update (or several) the update you collect includes *ALL* previous update information. There is no need to go hunting down other updates. The current one is always complete.
http://www.nsclean.com/trolist.html

Comodo Anti-Viruspyware (CAVS) - BETA 2.0.12.47
http://forums.comodo.com/index.php/topic,7737.0.html
What's News at http://forums.comodo.com/index.php/topic,7898.0.html

[XMAS]

A-Squared Anti-Malware 2.5 BETA Released
Available through the beta online update.
.............................................

a-squared Anti-Malware 2.5 BETA is now available through the online update.

[drhayden1]

There is no 2.5 install package available. As the text says you have to set the beta option within the a-squared Anti-Malware update settings to upgrade to the 2.5 beta version
sorry....oversight
http://forum.emsisoft.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=2003

[XMAS]

sorry....oversight
http://forum.emsisoft.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=2003

It's OK 

btw the mem usage (a-squared Guard) is REALLY LOW compared to the previews version 

[drhayden1]

AVG Anti-Spyware Update....
Last update: Today, 14:40 CET
Known threats in database: 742,079 threats
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/updates/

earlier

Last update: Today, 12:18 CET
Known threats in database: 741,959 threats
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/updates/

Spyware Blaster Update....
SpywareBlaster 3.5.1 Database:
Latest: 04/12/07
*Last: 03/26/07
Items: 7450
*Last: 7363
Changes: 87 Entries
0 -IE ActiveX CLSIDs
87 -IE Resticted Sites
0 -Mozilla/Firefox
Download: Online Updater
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Spy Sweeper Update....
Program Version 5.3.2.2361
Spyware Definitions v. 895
Definitions Last Updated: Thursday, April 12, 2007
Protection against 173,014 known traces.
http://www.webroot.com/wb/products/spysweeper

[XMAS]

avast! Virus Cleaner 1.0.211 is available