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Kaspersky Lab detected over 575 new variants of Koobface

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of Internet threat protection solutions that defend against computer viruses, spyware and all forms of malicious software, saw an explosion of Koobface modifications throughout the month of June, due to summer and vacations across the northern hemisphere. In just one month, the number of variants detected jumped from 324 at the end of May 2009 to almost 1000 by the end of June 2009.

Koobface, the infamous worm, was first detected by Kaspersky Lab as Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface, and it instantly became popular when it appeared almost one year ago targeting Facebook and MySpace accounts. The Koobface worm is spreading through a legitimate user’s account to their friends’ profiles. Comments and messages sent by the worm contain a link to a fake YouTube style website which invites users to download a “new version of Flash Player”. The worm, rather than a media player, is then downloaded to victim machines. Once a user is infected, he or she will start spreading such messages to his or her friends. In the meantime, the functionality of the worm has been extended. Koobface is now targeting more social networking websites like Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, Bebo, Tagged, Netlog and, most recently, Twitter.

As social networks such as Facebook or Twitter are becoming increasingly popular (Facebook Alexa Ranking), attacks targeting them are also gaining momentum.

“This sign of increased cybercriminal activity involving social networks in the past month proves that the strategies being used by the bad guys to infect users are much more efficient when adding the social context to their attacks, – says Stefan Tanase, Malware Researcher of Kaspersky Lab. – June 2009 marks an important milestone in the evolution of social networking malware: the activity we’ve seen this month exceeds by far any other month in the past.”

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Kaspersky Anti Virus and Security Solutions for Windows 7

Kaspersky announced the launch of its new anti-virus software for Windows 7. Kaspersky anti-virus for Windows 7 protects the users against the internet threats.

Kaspersky Lab released its technical antivirus prototype providing greater efficiency and complex antivirus protection at the beginning of January 2009 together with the launch of the beta test version of the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.

“By working with Microsoft, we are confident that Kaspersky Lab will provide Windows 7 users with a security option that is easy-to-manage, and helps protect their valuable data without slowing them down,” said Alexey Kalgin, Director of Product Marketing in Kaspersky Lab’s Corporate Business Division. “Our technical prototype has been installed by more than 300,000 people over two and a half months. Thanks to collaboration with Microsoft, we have received an exceptional amount of valuable feedback from testers that will enable us to ensure that our products are fully compatible with Windows 7 upon final release.”

“We are pleased to work with Kaspersky Lab as they develop and test their suite of offerings for Windows 7,” said Michael Angiulo, General Manager of Windows Planning and PC Ecosystem at Microsoft. “Our mutual end goal is to deliver to customers increased productivity, manageability and mobility for highly secure, reliable data access.”

Kaspersky Lab’s suite for windows 7 protects the users with good speed, reliablity and stability. Kaspersky Lab has received this feedback while the beta tests. Through its collaboration with Microsoft, Kaspersky Lab is committed to providing premium Internet threat protection to users of Windows 7.