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UPDATES - October 25, 2008

Oct 24, 2008 9:55PM PDT
TrojanHunter 5.0 Ruleset Update - Oct 25, 2008

An updated TrojanHunter ruleset is available. This update adds 36 new trojan definitions:

Agent.3060
Agent.3059
Alureon.107
Inject.293
IRC.Zapchast.237
IRCBot.826
Monitor.Perflogger.395
Obfuscated.484
Obfuscated.483
PWSteal.WOW.348
PWSteal.WOW.347
TrojanClicker.Agent.397
TrojanDownloader.Agent.2726
TrojanDownloader.Agent.2725
TrojanDownloader.Agent.2724
TrojanDownloader.Agent.2723
TrojanDownloader.Agent.2722
TrojanDownloader.Agent.2721
TrojanDownloader.CodecPack.129
TrojanDownloader.CodecPack.128
TrojanDownloader.CodecPack.127
TrojanDownloader.CodecPack.126
TrojanDownloader.FraudLoad.422
TrojanDownloader.Small.2911
TrojanDownloader.Small.2910
TrojanDownloader.Small.2909
TrojanDownloader.Tibs.314
TrojanDownloader.Tibs.313
TrojanDownloader.Zlob.1666
TrojanDownloader.Zlob.1665
TrojanDropper.Dnsx.101
TrojanSpy.Goldun.400
TrojanSpy.Zbot.530
Vapsup.139
Vundo.1347
Worm.Joleee.101

Licensed TrojanHunter users can easily update using TrojanHunter's LiveUpdate utility. If you are using the trial version of TrojanHunter, please see http://www.misec.net/trojanhunter/updating/ for instructions on how to update to the latest ruleset.

You should have 194598 rules.

Also added later 194639 for LiveUpdate only

Adware.180Solutions.157
Adware.SearchIt.105
Agent.3061
Frauder.157
FraudTool.MSAntiVirus.105
Monitor.WinGuardian.100
Obfuscated.485
Oliga.100
TrojanDownloader.Tibs.315
TrojanDropper.Agent.1026
TrojanSpy.Delf.476
UltimateDefender.110
VB.1295
Worm.AutoRun.274
http://www.misec.net/forum/board/RulesetUpdates/1224912603

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ClamAV #8490
Oct 24, 2008 10:05PM PDT

Latest ClamAV? stable release is: 0.94
Total number of signatures: 450435
ClamAV Virus Databases:
main.cvd ver. 49 released on 22 Oct 2008 22:03 +0000
daily.cvd ver. 8490 released on 25 Oct 2008 03:28
http://www.clamav.net/

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NOD32 - 3555 (20081025)
Oct 24, 2008 10:25PM PDT
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a-squared signature update
Oct 24, 2008 10:35PM PDT
2008-10-25 13:50:
Signature update (revised)
2324 Signatures: 1977 Trojans, 102 Spywares, 87 Worms, 12 Dialers, 146 Traces

2008-10-25 13:46:
Signature update (revised)
49804 Signatures: 44589 Trojans, 2185 Spywares, 3030 Worms

2008-10-25 13:41:
Signature update (revised)
188982 Signatures: 56866 Trojans, 2996 Spywares, 4101 Worms, 2490 Dialers, 122529 Traces
http://www.emsisoft.com/a2/changelog/free/
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/support/malware/
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Panda
Oct 24, 2008 11:58PM PDT
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AVG - AVI: 270.8.3 /1745
Oct 25, 2008 12:12AM PDT

Added detection of new variant of Win32/Cryptor, Win32/Patched, Worm/Mofeir, new variants of trojans Downloader.Tibs, Downloader.Zlob, BackDoor.Bifrose.
October 25, 2008
http://www.grisoft.com/us.download-update

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AVG - AVI: 270.8.3 /1746
Oct 25, 2008 6:05AM PDT
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avast! 4.x VPS (released: 25.10.2008, version: 081025-0)
Oct 25, 2008 2:49AM PDT
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avast! 4.x VPS (released: 25.10.2008, version: 081025-1)
Oct 25, 2008 5:08AM PDT
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AntiVir Version: 7.00.07.92
Oct 25, 2008 3:13AM PDT
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BOClean FILE DATE : 2008-10-25 16:11:56 (UTC)
Oct 25, 2008 3:22AM PDT
TWENTY ONE new nasties for a total of 64,085 **UNIQUE**
infectors (331,075 variants of these including
trojans,worms,bots,hijackers,downloaders,spam proxies, rootkits, adware,
spyware,keyloggers,"dialers" and other malware in total) covered in
today's update for BOClean 4.27.

Please also note that if you ever miss an update (or several) the update
you collect includes **ALL** previous update information. There is no
need to go hunting down other updates. The current one is always complete.
http://www.comodo.com/boclean/trolist.html
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NAV Daily
Oct 25, 2008 3:48AM PDT
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BitDefender - 10/26/2008 - 00:22
Oct 25, 2008 8:07AM PDT