Hundreds of thousands of examples of a new Trojan that poses as a media file have flooded onto P2P networks.

Malware authors have lifted a page from the legit software industry's rule book and are slapping copyright notices on their Trojans.

Security researchers have unearthed more details about a Trojan that targets backend databases as well as desktop clients.

Storm Worms exploit April Fools

The shutters are being pulled down on old school virus writers' group 29A.

Orkut worm feeds on scraps

Security company Kaspersky claimed that Vista's User Account Control (UAC), the system of user privileges that can be used to restrict users' administrative rights, will be so annoying that users will disable it.

Microsoft has released a first draft of programming interfaces meant to help security firms create products that work with kernel protection features in Windows Vista.

The debate surrounding Windows Security Center and PatchGuard has turned vicious, with McAfee and Microsoft both claiming that the other is motivated by commercial factors rather than security concerns.

European security vendors aren't making as much noise as Symantec over Microsoft's move into the security space, but they're certainly concerned.