Steemians Caution: due to vulnerabilities in the anti-virus software is possible to lose money from the card

in #steem8 years ago

The company's specialists EnSilo discovered a vulnerability in many popular anti-virus software for your computer, using which you can cause great harm to users. Details of the study published on the official website of the company.

The vulnerability was found in many anti-virus software, they include and "Kaspersky Lab», McAfee. Avast and others.

The main problem is seen in the process of interception technology, which is used by anti-virus software to detect threats. With this gap can bypass the protection system in the tracking of malicious code on Windows.

The vulnerability was found in 15 popular antivirus

This vulnerability is open to attackers virtually unlimited field for hackers - they may inject malicious code into any process on the computer. A computer virus can infect or, for example, to run in the background of a keylogger - a program to track keystrokes on the keyboard. So you need to be careful when paying for purchases in shops with a bank card.

Employees EnSilo warned antivirus developers. Several companies have already released a security update, but some programs are still vulnerable. But experts can not fully appreciate the scale of the problem, according to rough estimates - hundreds of thousands of vulnerable users.
Be careful to check regularly update anti-virus!

Warn about the dangers of friends and acquaintances.

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