New Portable – Microsoft releases Windows Defender Offline tool beta (create bootable CD,DVD,USB flash drive)

New Portable – Microsoft releases Windows Defender Offline tool beta (create bootable CD,DVD,USB flash drive)
December 9, 2011 — bluecollarpc
https://bluecollarpcwebs.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/new-portable-microsoft-releases-windows-defender-offline-tool-beta-create-bootable-cddvdusb-flash-drive/

New Portable – Microsoft releases Windows Defender Offline tool beta (create bootable CD,DVD,USB flash drive)

New Portable – Microsoft releases Windows Defender Offline tool beta (create bootable CD,DVD,USB flash drive)

Microsoft releases Windows Defender Offline tool beta
The H
Users can choose to create a bootable CD, DVD or USB flash drive
Microsoft has published a public beta of an offline version of its
Windows Defender spyware removal software, formerly known as Microsoft
AntiSpyware. Using the Windows Defender Offline …
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Microsoft-releases-Windows-Defender-Offline-tool-beta-1392853.html

GET IT FREE HERE ……

What is Windows Defender Offline Beta?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/what-is-windows-defender-offline

NOTES…. A big plus here is the antimalware product runs before a bootkit can apparently, which coincides with the new security technology in Windows 8 which unfortunately has already been cracked….
” Windows 8 Boot Security Cracked”
http://www.crn.com/news/security/231903295/windows-8-boot-security-cracked.htm;jsessionid=NZjzL4QedChUWf+VUz6Tyg**.ecappj02

THREAT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootkit#bootkit

\sarcasm\ …So Micro$oft will be passing out a free Windows Defender Anti-Bootkit USB Drive stick and a Norton CD with each new Windows 8 purchase ? ! LOL ….sounds eerily like a Microsoft apology or the
opposite being offering the same type technology for XP users as conceivably a bootkit can not run on Vista because rootkits can not.

Since Vista UAC has reportedly been cracked
https://bluecollarpcwebs.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/vista-user-account-control-uac-finally-cracked/ ;
…THEN it would seem this is indeed the next attack vector as creating the bootkit to then circumvent Vista security to attempt running the very first rootkit on Vista which means a payload described as a
“blended threat” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended_threat ; as massive, is necessary, and will no doubt be tracked back by Cyber Security agencies (FBI et al) and the antimalware industry and possibly private citizen groups that go botnet hunting. BUT the obvious question is hot to upload the payload to Vista ? Only those that could care less about security or love to run Vista without UAC (turning it into a XP or 98 0r ME) are the ones that can even be infected with the payload to even attempt to deliver the payload and attempt reports back as to how well they did. Massive hit and miss circumstances for this ever to become reality. Since Vista has not climbed too much above 10 to 12 percent of sales seems it would be missed by this pipe dream to date.
Still, food for thought – and I am still in the “I love my Vista” crowd for life ! ! ! She will be most secure even over and above Windows 8.

REFERENCE ….

Techworld.com – Vista’s UAC spots rootkits, tests find
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=101583

I personally called Vista as the crown of security software for the decade (2000-2010) as the operating system itself achieving what NO other defense software did…..
QUOTES
AV-Test.org, which set out to find out how well anti-virus programmes fared against known rootkits….
The answer was not particularly well at all, either for Windows XP, or Vista-orientated products. Of 30 rootkits thrown at XP anti-malware scanners, none of the seven AV suites found all 30, a similar story to
the six web-based scanners assessed. Only four of the 14 specialised anti-rootkit tools managed a perfect score. The best of the all-purpose suites was Avira AntiVir Premium Security Suite, which found 29 active rootkits, with Norton finding as few as 18.
The anti-rootkit tools fared better, with AVG Anti-Rootkit Free, GMER, Rootkit Unhooker LE, and Trend Micro Rootkit Buster achieving perfect scores. The scores for removal were patchy, however, with all failing to remove 100 percent of the rootkits they had found.

The results for Vista products were harder to assess because only six rootkits could run on the OS, but the testers had to turn off UAC to get even this far. Vista’s UAC itself spotted everything thrown in front of it.
Only three of the 17 AV tools for Vista managed to both detect and successfully remove them, F-Secure Anti-Virus 2008, Panda Security Antivirus 2008, and Norton Antivirus 2008. That UAC can tell a user when a rootkit is trying to install itself is not in itself surprising, as Vista is supposedly engineered from the ground up to intercept all applications requests of any significance.

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NEWS: ClamWin Portable 0.97.1 (anti-virus) Released PortableApps.com …
ClamWin Portable 0.97.1 (anti-virus) Released. Submitted by John T.
Haller on June 17, 2011 – 7:46pm. logo ClamWin Portable 0.97.1 has been released. …
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NEWS: Microsoft ships free malware cleaner that boots from CD or USB
ZDNet (blog)
June 1, 2011, 10:15am PDT In a move aimed at cutting down on support call costs, Microsoft has released a malware recovery tool that boots from a CD or USB stick. Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing …
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/microsoft-ships-free-malware-cleaner-that-boots-from-cd-or-usb/8712


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Comodo Cleaning Essentials
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ESET SysInspector is a powerful, portable security tool that will inspect your system’s files, running processes, Registry keys and more, looking for and highlighting anything that could be a sign of malware.
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Norman Malware Cleaner is an interesting portable antivirus tool which will scan your PC, detecting and removing any malware that it uncovers.
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