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New blog entry 19 Jan 2012

John H posted: ルートキットにご注意

最近、主要メディアでルートキットの話題がよく登場します。メディアに取り上げられることで、多くの人に悪質な行為が知られるようになってきてはいますが、気が付かないうちに自宅や職場のコンピュータに脅威が感染するのを防ぐ方法は、まだあまり浸透していません。広い意味でルートキットとは、通常のオペレーティングシステム（OS）の動作を妨害することによって、自身の存在を隠しながら、OS への特権アクセスを取得、維持するソフトウェア全般を指します。一般に、ルートキットには以下の 3 つの目的があります。標的のコンピュータ上で、ルートキットが制限なしで動作でき

New blog entry 18 Jan 2012

John H posted: A Reminder about Rootkits

Rootkit stories show up in the mainstream media on a regular basis these days. While these stories raise public awareness about what the bad guys are doing, they usually leave readers wondering what they can do to protect themselves from silent threats infecting their computers at home and i

discussion comment 31 May 2011

John H commented on: Tidserv not being removed by Fixtidds or PowerEraser

Sorry your friend is having a problem. Can you please post this information in the Norton 360 forum over here? This will help to have the correct folks looking at this. Also, please include the version of Norton 360 and ...

discussion comment 25 Jan 2010

John H commented on: SEP and "Operation Aurora"?

ditto! Thanks for posting that as well! cheers, John

discussion comment 25 Jan 2010

John H commented on: SEP and "Operation Aurora"?

Dimitri, Thanks for your follow-up on this issue! After you reported the initial detection not working, I followed up with our Response folks who confirmed the updated detection that went out on Tuesday 1/19 provided protection against ...

New blog entry 19 May 2009

John H posted: Malware Whac-a-Mole: Gumblar is down, Martuz is up. Next?!

The malicious code Whac-a-Mole game continues. Just as security vendors start detecting the domains and malware associated with the drive-by download attacks coming from the malicious Gumblar domains , the bad guys are changing the game and popping up from Martuz dot cn, which, according to Who

New blog entry 15 May 2009

John H posted: Viral Web Infections using Malware? Gumblar is, Unfortunately, Just Another Day on the Web

Symantec Security Response has been monitoring a recent spate of Web-based attacks and drive-by downloads from compromised websites that are infecting end-users’ computers. This latest round of attacks has a payload that maliciously alters Web search engine results on the compromised machines. The

New blog entry 24 Mar 2009

John H posted: The Latest in the Threat Landscape—Web-based Attacks: February 2009

As we talk to enterprise and consumer customers, we are finding that many don’t understand the risks of the Internet today, why their computers have been compromised, or how the threat landscape has really changed. The fact that simply visiting your favorite website can either lead to malware sile

discussion comment 21 Aug 2008

John H commented on: Network Threat Protection/firewall

The short answer is YES, substantially more!!! There are multiple parts to the "Network Threat Protection" Part is a firefall, another part is a proactive protection solution to keep threats, malware, viruses off your system before ...

discussion comment 21 Aug 2008

John H commented on: XP antivirus 2008

Maver, Glad you got some good results! We have recently been adding Network Threat Protection coverage for the fake antivirus products (like XP antivirus 2008, AntiVirus 2009, Doctor Antivirus) and fake vdieocodecs to give you an additional layer ...

discussion comment 25 Jul 2008

John H commented on: Want to enable intrusion protection

You might look at my post over here. The benefits of IPS/Network Threat Protection should make it an easy decision. https://forums.symantec.com/syment/board/message?board.id=endpoint_protection11&thread.id=13563 Network Threat Protection ...

discussion comment 25 Jul 2008

John H commented on: [SID: 22920] HTTP Malicious Toolkit Download Activity detected.

Can you confirm this solved your problem?Thanks,John