Malware Outbreak Center - What’s It For?

November 8th, 2007 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Data & Research, Email Security | Leave a comment »

Commtouch publicized the new Malware Outbreak Center earlier this week, a resource on our web site to learn about new malware variants, and comparative catch-times for each of the AV engines. All very nice info for Commtouch commercial purposes, to try to convince AV and mail security vendors to add Zero Hour Virus Outbreak Protection [...]

Same spam, new format

July 10th, 2007 by Nikki | Category: Spam Favorites | Leave a comment »

We all know that the evil forces behind spam, beyond being evil, are also quite prolific. In the tit-for-tat war between junkmail senders and the anti-spam community, the junkers have come up with yet another trick - PDF spam. Some of what we are seeing is really just ‘Image spam 2.0′ because it’s just another [...]