Chester Wisniewski

Member since: Aug 31st, 2009

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Google and Yahoo banner ads delivering trojans (Download Squad)

Sep 29th 2009 1:08PM I attended Virus Bulletin last week and saw Eric Davis of Google's anti-malvertising team do a presentation on the difficulties and techniques Google uses to try and protect customers from this type of fraud. It is a difficult problem, and if I am not mistaken, the malicious ads on Google's service last week were "swicthed out" after publication. This means if the consumers of their advertisements vetted them at the time they were posted, they were non-malicious. It's not as easy as it looks on the surface.

Chester Wisniewski
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http://www.sophos.com/blogs/chetw

Apple's naughty list: which apps aren't ready for Snow Leopard? (Download Squad)

Aug 31st 2009 4:39PM Apple did not make this easy on ISV's using their typical "Surprise!!" release of the product. Telling us mid-September and than launching early may be cool when you have a secret product you want to show off at your next conference, but it amplifies problems with both ISV's and IHV's.

At Sophos, our AV was ready and when it was announced Apple was releasing Friday, we were able to push out our update on Thursday and still ensure quality, but many companies were caught off-guard. In our case, we were unable to pre-notify our customer base so they could download the update and be ready themselves for providing it to their Mac users who are updating.

This is just more of Apple showing that you should use Apple's software suites to ensure compatibility, and them not taking corporate Mac users seriously. Surprises don't amuse professional administrators.

For more check out:
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/08/28/guest-blog-sophos-antivirus-supports-snow-leopard/
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/chetw/g/2009/08/29/snow-leopards-bundled-antimalware/