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WEBROOT ANNOUNCES TOP FOUR MALWARE SECURITY TIPS

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Webroot white paper addresses ‘How to Protect Business from Malware
At the Endpoint and the Perimeter’ and reveals top four tips to secure businesses
BRACKNELL, UK. April 15th 2008 — Webroot, a leading security provider for the consumer, enterprise and SME markets, has issued a white paper entitled ‘How to Protect Business from Malware at the Endpoint [...]

Adware Company Gets Assist From Business Groups In Legal Battle

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

ADWARE COMPANY ZANGO IS GETTING some help in federal court from a coalition of business groups in its legal battle against spyware removal company Kaspersky Lab.
In a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the Ninth Circuit, the National Business Coalition for E-Commerce and Privacy argues that the trial judge should not have dismissed Zango’s lawsuit against the [...]

Computer chores

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

If you’ve already scoured your closet and emptied your garage, you may think your spring cleaning is over.
Think again.
The same way you would give your house a once over, so should you purge your computer. Spring cleaning will help your computer run more efficiently, can help protect you from viruses, and offers also a good [...]

Virus infections drop by 60 per cent

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

The number of UK companies infected by malware has fallen by 60 per cent over the past two years, according to a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), on behalf of the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform.
But for two-thirds of the companies affected, malware caused their worst information security breach of the year. Spyware now [...]

Not All Spyware Is Malicious But Must Be Removed

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Though not all Spyware is malicious they must be removed all the same. The reason being that they will ultimately expand the registry of the system and stall the programs and generally make the system unstable.
Some people believe that you may not always need to remove spyware because Spyware is not always malicious. There are [...]

Effects Of Spyware On The Computer

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Spyware has a lot of side effects of the registry. One of the greatest drawbacks is the slowing down of the system. This process will continue until the registry is cleaned with a registry cleaner.
If you have browsed the Internet for a substantial number of hours it is guaranteed that you have downloaded some sort [...]

Virus that comes back more likely a new one

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Question: I had this come up in my Computer Associates virus check a while back. I thought the CA program had eliminated it as I haven’t seen it again in a few months after several runs of CAAV. Suddenly it popped up again. Is this something related to an e-mail I might have which hasn’t [...]

YahooXtra spam filters disrupt email delivery

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Vital business emails are going astray, intercepted and quarantined by YahooXtra’s spam filters without the knowledge of the sender or the receiver.
Wellington-based Graphic Dimensions, which provides IT support and services to architectural design companies, has had problems sending email to xtra.co.nz addresses since the beginning of February.
Email from the company, which is also an Xtra [...]

Cybercrooks beating CAPTCHA to send more spam

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Spam originating from popular webmail services are spiking now that spammers have found ways to evade the challenge-response requirements for opening an account, a new study from email security firm MessageLabs reveals.
According to the company’s Intelligence Report for February, 4.6 percent of spam originates from webmail-based services, notably Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail. While Yahoo still [...]

Get Spam-free Email on your iPhone

Monday, March 10th, 2008

I’ve had my iPhone for months now and, until about two weeks ago, I was secretly unhappy with how it handled my email. You see, I get lots of email. Lots and lots, as a matter of fact, and it comes into twelve different accounts. I used to use Apple’s Mail to manage it on [...]