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Identity theft is a term, which has become familiar during the latest years. More exotic - until recently - has been identity production with malicious intent. A new version of Koobface does exactly that - automatically.

The vendors of security software have the following simple task: Detect and remove as much malicious software as possible without erroneously defining benign software as malware. Unfortunately, this is not as simple as it seems.

Security organizations are in constant battle with malware authors, trying to protect end users from being infected by "bad stuff". As we shall see in this week's security article, some undesirable side effects unfortunately occur from time to time.

The title of this week's security information does not refer to the celebration of an anniversary for the legacy PC operating system DOS. It is another of those neologisms that pop up continuously.