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30-Day Global Threats, Risks, and Vulnerabilities Timeline
30-Day Global Threats, Risks, and Vulnerabilities Timeline
30 day view of discovered Threats, Security Risks and announced Vulnerabilities brought to you by the DeepSight Threat Management System
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Latest Threats & Risks
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SeverityNameTypeProtected*
Downloader.Misapp!zip06/10/2008
W32.PoskiwingVirus, Worm06/10/2008
W32.Imalag.AVirus03/10/2008
EKerberosMisleading Application03/10/2008
SpywareGuard2008Misleading Application01/10/2008
Adware.WebwiseAdware30/09/2008
Packed.Generic.169Trojan, Virus, Worm29/09/2008
Packed.Generic.97Trojan, Virus, Worm29/09/2008
Packed.Generic.86Trojan, Virus, Worm29/09/2008
Packed.Generic.85Trojan, Virus, Worm29/09/2008
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Vulnerabilities
A Vulnerability is a state in a computing system (or set of systems) which either (a) allows an attacker to execute commands as another user, (b) allows an attacker to access data that is contrary to the specified access restrictions for that data, (c) allows an attacker to pose as another entity, or (d) allows an attacker to conduct a denial of service.
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Symantec Endpoint Protection 11
Norton AntiVirus 2008 and newer
Virus Definitions created October 6
Virus Definitions released October 6
Defs Version: 101006ao
Sequence Number: 86585
Extended Version: 10/6/2008 rev. 41
Total Detections (Threats & Risks): 2273895

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Symantec AntiVirus
Norton AntiVirus 2006/2007
Virus Definitions created October 6
Virus Definitions released October 7
Defs Version: 101006ao
Sequence Number: 86585
Extended Version: 10/6/2008 rev. 41
Total Detections (Threats & Risks): 2273895

Weekly Updates released October 1   Learn More

Norton AntiVirus for Mac Defs released October 3

Symantec AntiVirus for Handhelds Defs released September 18

Certified Intelligent Updater

The Intelligent Updater virus definitions are fully tested and certified by Quality Assurance. Intelligent Updater is an alternate delivery method for certified definitions, which consists of an executable file that can be downloaded and run manually.

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