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Offline Bugbatter

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Trojan Blocks Cloud Antivirus Security Technology
« on: January 20, 2011, 03:30:05 PM »
The Bohu Trojan has been seen attempting to block cloud-based technologies in anti-virus products.

Enterprises are not the only ones interested in cloud security products.

Malware authors have their eyes on them too – something exemplified by the Bohu Trojan, which blocks connections from Windows machines to cloud anti-virus technologies to disable users’ defenses.

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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Trojan-Blocks-Cloud-Antivirus-Security-Technology-784022/



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Re: Trojan Blocks Cloud Antivirus Security Technology
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2011, 03:58:45 PM »
I hate to say it, but that took longer than I expected.

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