Google Getting into the Anti-Malware Game

I was just checking out my twitter feed today and found a tweet from Google on how they're helping out in fight against malware.  And honestly, I think its brilliant.

Here is the link to their blog post on the subject.  Reading through the article, I find the concept amazingly simple.  Google has found the proxy servers that host several of the Fake AV virus' out their and alerts a person when their computer is sending data to Google through those proxies.  The alert only appears in Google's search results, so even seeing it at all tips you off that your computer is infected, making the act of faking the alert to get people to install something worse almost pointless(I stress the almost because if some one is gullible enough, any fake alert is worth it to virus hosts).  A very simple way to help people purge their computers of virus'.

Big Problems with BitDefender

     I hate to have to report on things like this, but it just goes to show that you have to have good quality control within a corporation.  On Saturday, BitDefender sent out an update to their antivirus product that completely locked down and crashed Windows Vista operating systems.  According to two different articles on ZDNet and one on cnet news, customers are really upset, and rightly so.  So, if you have BitDefender and a Vista computer that have been knocked out, bring them in and we'll retrieve the data.  Then go and pursue BitDefender, we've heard news that they are giving out refunds or extensions to their customers licenses(though who would want them after a fiasco this big).
     If you want to know more about this big blunder in the antivirus biz, check out the first article that I read on ZDNet on the subject.