Archive for the 'Antivirus News' Category
Kaspersky Lab Introduces Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Monday, March 10th, 2008Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of Internet threat management solutions that protect against all forms of malicious software, today announced the release of Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 protects users of corporate mail systems from viruses, spyware and other malware working in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange [...]
10 Security Vendors Shine At CeBIT 2008
Monday, March 10th, 2008IT security remains a top-of-mind issue for companies of all sizes, and at this year’s CeBIT conference, vendors pushed the benefits of data leak prevention, mobile device encryption, video surveillance, and pretty much everything up to and including locking your door at night. ChannelWeb patrolled the security pavilion in Hall 6 at CeBIT and the [...]
Behavior-based malware detection software on the way
Monday, March 10th, 2008Start-up NovaShield says that in May it will release its first security product for the PC, behavior-based detection software designed to catch, quarantine and eradicate malware not ordinarily detected by signature-based antivirus products.
According to the Windows-based NovaShield software will recognize activity from keyloggers, Trojans, and botnets and block them from executing. NovaShield, primarily intended for [...]
What Steps Can I Take to Protect My Computer Servers?
Monday, March 10th, 2008Most of us know how to protect our computers with firewalls and antivirus software, but we may not know how to sufficiently protect our servers, which store business-critical information. To begin with, turn off all unused ports and eliminate all unneeded software. By deleting unnecessary programs, you reduce the ways in which the system can [...]
Fraudsters piggyback on search engines
Monday, March 10th, 2008Online attackers have found a way to inject IFRAME redirects into the search results of major sites, including tech news site ZDNet Asia and bittorrent tracker TorrentReactor, researchers discovered on Tuesday.
By abusing the way that the sites cache search queries to optimize their rankings in other search engines — most notably, Google — fraudsters have [...]
Symantec Releases Norton Antivirus Upgrade
Sunday, March 9th, 2008Consumer antivirus protection received a few enhancements after Symantec (NSDQ:SYMC) recently released the launch its Norton 360 version 2.0.
"We’re really excited for this launch," said Mark Kanok, Symantec senior product manager for Norton 360. "It’s going to set a whole new bar in terms of what people expect."
Execs say that the comprehensive antivirus product is [...]
Internet users ‘unsure of IT security’
Monday, March 3rd, 2008While most internet users in the US, Canada, the UK, France and Germany have security software installed on their PCs, many remain unsure about IT security, according to a recent study.
Figures produced by F-Secure suggest that many consumers are unsure that their email is free of malware and other threats, while few people realise how [...]
Dodgy research unlikely to get Apple users in a stew
Monday, March 3rd, 2008JUST so we’re bookmarking the same website using the same browser (we were going to say "just so we’re all on the same page" but that sounds outmoded) - and now we think about it we probably should have mentioned an RSS feed.
Anyway, just so we’re consuming the same piece of text and/or multimedia content [...]
Some appointments not syncronising with WM6 & Outlook
Monday, March 3rd, 2008I had a problem at work recently, some appointments being sent to people via meeting requests were appearing in the Outlook diary but not on the handheld device. It took a while but eventually…
A colleague found a Microsoft KB Article on the subject, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827615.
We had checked just about everything that I thought could effect the [...]
Hacked Antivirus Site Delivers a Virus
Thursday, February 14th, 2008The Web site for Indian antivirus vendor AvSoft Technologies has been hacked and is being used to install malicious software on visitors’ computers, security researchers said.
The download section of AvSoft’s S-cop Web site hosts the malicious code, according to Roger Thompson, chief research officer with security vendor AVG. "They let one of their pages get [...]