Norton's 2005 security line-up review
Reviews Symantec has responded to Web-based worm attacks such as MSBlast and Sasser with beefed-up Norton security products for 2005, offering new protection against phishing scams and other identity-theft schemes along the way.
[August 18, 2004, 16:45]
Why you must install a firewall -- now review
Reviews The MSBlast worm, which capitalised on this vulnerability, appeared on August 12. MSBlast, the worm that exploited the buffer overflow in Windows' DCOM RPC protocol, wasn't the sort of email-borne pest that anti-virus software is good at catching.
[October 17, 2003, 11:30]
Security for your business review
Reviews The word MSBlast is enough to strike fear into the heart of any small-business owner. But you must make sure that all of your employees are taking advantage of this; if everyone kept their PCs up-to-date, MSBlast would have been a non-event.
[June 11, 2004, 9:35]
Windows XP SP2 more secure? Not so fast review
Reviews Windows XP SP2 also makes important changes to core Windows components, such as DCOM and RPC (flaws within the DCOM RPC led to the damaging MSBlast attack last year). It's late. It's large. But Microsoft's much heralded Windows XP Service Pack 2...
[August 17, 2004, 13:55]
McAfee VirusScan 8.0 review
Reviews It's difficult to predict future worms; however, VirusScan detected and deleted the MSBlast worm on our test PC, something our previous anti-virus program missed. Setup & interface McAfee recently merged its retail version of VirusScan 8.0 with its...
[September 29, 2003, 11:20]
USB devices offer an old-school way to steal data review
Reviews As we all learned with the MSBlast worm in 2003, although corporations have tough, layered firewall security on the outside, they're vulnerable on the desktop level inside. So it doesn't surprise me that criminal hackers are turning their attention...
[August 22, 2005, 11:05]
