Security firms warned users this week to watch out for the Storm Worm after online fraudsters revised the malicious software with a Christmas hook.
The fraudsters behind the crime-focused program began sending out a massive wave of e-mail messages over the weekend with subject lines such as "Season Greetings" or "Looking for something hot for this [...]

LIA (Little Intelligent Antivirus) is a new antivirus scanning engine developed in over 14 months by Corbitek Software. Although at the begining, it has most of the more "grown-up" antivirus characteristics such as Detection of new, unknown THREATS (not only viruses, but also trojans, spyware, adware and other threats) using the most advanced heuristics. RealTime [...]

McAfee Inc. has announced the general availability of McAfee GroupShield 7 for Lotus Domino and McAfee GroupShield 7 for Microsoft Exchange. The new versions include a number of enhancements designed to provide greater threat protection, while making management easier than before.
If an email server is not secured, viruses, worms and other malware can use the [...]

Engate Technology Corporation has announced that Engate MailSentinel™ Anti-Spam has received a 2007 Product of the Year Award from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine for outstanding anti-spam innovation and commitment to customer service excellence.
“Engate has demonstrated a commitment to product innovation and customer support by helping their customers and partners reduce IT costs and improve operational [...]

Ten ways to protect yourself online:

Make sure your operating system’s automatic updates and firewall are turned on.
Use security programs, including anti-virus and anti-spyware software, and subscribe to security updates.
Run a full system scan at least once a month.
Don’t open attachments or click on links in e-mails from people you don’t know.
Use passwords with at least [...]

From now on, programs which will be installed only with the active X security warning without the user agreement will be classified as spyware. In addition, any attempts to change the system setting and to interrupt the operation will be regarded as malicious activities.

BARTOW | Jurors got a lesson in computer forensics Wednesday as prosecutors outlined their case against a man accused of having a sexual relationship with a juvenile relative.
Lakeland resident Gary Whitmore, 41, has been charged with various computer crimes involving pictures and obscene chat with the teenager. Jurors were told that he was picked [...]

Grisoft seeks info on companies that promoted counterfeit AVG antivirus products through sponsored text ads.
AVG said Wednesday that it has filed subpoenas under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act against Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), and Internet domain registrar GoDaddy.
The antivirus company, also known as Grisoft, is seeking the identities [...]

Kaspersky Lab has announced the release of Kaspersky® Anti-Virus Mobile Enterprise Edition, designed to protect corporate users of mobile devices from malware and SMS spam.
Preventing malicious programs from penetrating the corporate network is one of the main IT security tasks facing companies today. However, traditional solutions fail to provide system administrators with the ability [...]

Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC: 16.85, +0.57, +3.50%) today announced it has earned an unprecedented 35th consecutive VB100 Award from Virus Bulletin. While many other security vendors failed the December 2007 tests, Symantec was one of only two vendors to receive a perfect detection score for all test sets, including "in the wild" malware, and today’s [...]