In this tech world where each minute new technology is put on the shore and competition keeps the techies on their feet, the professionals can never boast of completely secure networks.The call of the hour is the Internet Security but no one can boast of it.

You can never imagine what your network is lacking and how can it be exploited by the hackers. This is the worst type of risk you can feel you are at. Hacking involves the access to all of your sensitive information and the worst part is that you may not know till the time you have lost your bank balance or any valuable information to your competitor.We are at high ratio of vulnerability what we can even imagine of. Read the rest of this entry »

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 and the Perimeter’ that includes four key tips to protect enterprises and SMEs against malware infection. Read the rest of this entry »

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 spyware removal company. The Coalition’s members include major companies like Eastman Kodak, JP Morgan Chase and Experian. Read the rest of this entry »

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 opportunity to protect important files.

People keep valuable information, including photographs, on their computer but don’t back it up as they should, said Steve Yates, owner of Computer Renaissance in Springfield.

"If they lose all that, all their memories are gone forever," Yates said. "They need to protect it as if they were going to lose it tomorrow."

There are three things you should think about when spring cleaning your computer, said Luke M. Ford, chief executive officer of My Computer Works, a company in Phoenix, that offers network support across the nation. Read the rest of this entry »

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 accounts for one in six of the worst infections, suggesting attacks are becoming less frequent but more sophisticated.

Companies have become aware of the threat of viruses, according to PwC partner Chris Potter.

"If there is one area of security where UK plc has really got the message, it’s virus protection. Only a tiny minority of companies don’t take this area seriously," he said.

Only 14 per cent of UK companies reported a malware infection last year, down from 35 per cent two years ago when the last survey was carried out.

Less than half of very large businesses had an infection last year.

Corporate anti-virus defences have significantly improved, the survey found.

Ninety-eight per cent of firms have software to scan for spyware, up from 75 per cent two years ago.

Source: http://www.computing.co.uk/

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 many kinds of Spyware that can infect your PC. Most of them are, thankfully, not uploaded with malicious intent. But why take chances. First of all let us analyze how Spyware comes to get onto the system in the first place. People who browse the Internet come across many sites that offer free download. Clicking on these downloads may bring with it some program in the background or hidden from the user. This may be in the form of ActiveX controls or components. When we download certain programs the download program flashes a message requiring the user to allow the download of an ActiveX control without which the download will not work. This ActiveX control is registered in the CLSID files of the registry. Once the download is complete the ActiveX control stored as a .OCX file begins its stealthy work. Best Spyware removal programs are especially weary of ActiveX controls and remove any malicious looking .OCX files. Read the rest of this entry »

Norton 360 2.0’s basic specification is unchanged: it offers comprehensive protection against spyware and virus malware, data loss, identity loss and phishing, thus covering most if not all current security risks.

One year on and it’s time for a revamp of Norton’s premier home security product, Norton 360. Read the rest of this entry »

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 of Spyware to your system, albeit inadvertently. That is the reason it is called Spyware. If it made itself known it would not be spying. Spyware is not illegal software. It is downloaded with the ‘permission’ of the user. Once the Spyware downloads and installs itself it begins, first of all, to consolidate itself on the machine. It does this by entering its information in multiple parts of the registry. These entries can only be removed with Spyware removal utilities and there are many free anti Spyware and Adware removal tools available to do a satisfactory job for you. Read the rest of this entry »

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 been opened yet? Why didn’t my CA anti-virus program delete it rather than tell me I had it? Part of the "messagestore\inbox.imm" is in "file name" location. Read the rest of this entry »

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 customer, is classified by the YahooXtra mail filter as spam, says Graphic Dimensions’ technical director, Paul O’Brien. Read the rest of this entry »