We've been working very hard this year, and all the hard work has paid off!

F-Secure has won AV-Comparatives' Whole Product Dynamic Test for 2010 and received another Advanced+ award — the seventh this year. We're currently the vendor with the most awards of the highest category given by AV-Comparatives in 2010.

The difference between the first two places in the Whole Product Dynamic Test couldn't have been tighter.

Stuxnet continues to be a hot topic. Here's an updated set of Questions and Answers on it.

Q: What is Stuxnet?
A: It's a Windows worm, spreading via USB sticks. Once inside an organization, it can also spread by copying itself to network shares if they have weak passwords.

Q: Can it spread via other USB devices?
A: Sure, it can spread anything that you can mount as a drive. Like a USB hard drive, mobile phone, picture frame and so on.

Q: What does it do then?

Today we’re sharing the exciting update that we’re taking Norton DNS for PC users out of beta. As you may recall, Norton DNS was launched in May as part of our Norton Everywhere announcement, which aims to take our consumer business beyond the PC. Since that launch, Norton DNS has gained more than 250,000 beta users from 112 different countries.

Stuxnet continues to be a hot topic. Here are answers to some of the questions we've received.

Q: What is Stuxnet?
A: It's a Windows worm, spreading via USB sticks. Once inside an organization, it can also spread by copying itself to network shares if they have weak passwords.

Q: Can it spread via other USB devices?
A: Sure, it can spread anything that you can mount as a drive. Like a USB hard drive, mobile phone, picture frame and so on.

Q: What does it do then?

Symantec Maximum Repair (SMR) is a brand new security engine that drives our new Norton Power Eraser recovery tool. It combines aggressive heuristics and advanced removal capabilities to combat the newest and toughest threats. I thought I would share with you some of the background on why we developed this new engine.

May is getting closer. The CARO 2010 Technical Workshop is almost here.

It's going to be good. More than 130 people from all over the world have signed up already.

Registration for the workshop will close in two weeks time.

We have the final program online. You can see the full program with abstracts at http://caro2010.org, but here are the presentation titles:

Click fraud is a lot like shoplifting. It’s not the most shocking crime you know of, and it’s not really victimless. It is theft. But observing and identifying click fraud is more difficult than watching a kid slip an unpaid-for candy bar or magazine into their pocket. It’s also a cost of business that burdens all customers of a business. Ugly.

The U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano was this morning’s keynote speaker at RSA Conference 2010, speaking about succeeding in the cybersecurity battle. She joins the list of prominent speakers this week, along with Symantec’s Enrique Salem on “Defeating the Enemy: The Road to Confidence”.

Gerry Egan, Product Manager for Symantec, explains the new Reputation-based security technology in the upcoming Norton 2010 product release.

Spam continues to clog the internet with providers reporting spam stuffing 80% – 95% of all email content en route. It’s an ongoing problem into 2010, so last week we examined the active spambot Tedroo, some of its suspicious behaviors, one of its anti-debug/antiRE techniques, and its spam delivery.