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Member Review This is a very poor product ~ go Norton Anti-Virus or something else. They seem to have a product to detect anti-virus but "their support sucks big time! I have used several of their products before (oil change, anti-virus, etc.but I swear this is...
[May 28, 2004, 9:11]
F-Secure combines antivirus and firewall
News To combat the threat of "blended" virus attacks -- such as MSBlast -- security company F-Secure on Wednesday launched a combined firewall and anti-virus product. The F-Secure Anti Virus Client Security package is designed to combat the new breed of...
[September 4, 2003, 8:29]
Italian 'Love Bug' contained for now
News Anti-virus experts in Europe said Thursday that an Italian variant of the Love Bug, thought to be spreading with speed during the night, appears to have been contained. US anti-virus firm Trend Micro reported Wednesday that the virus, known as...
[February 8, 2001, 12:45]
New 'oil' worm 'unlikely to succeed': Sophos
News Anti-virus vendor Sophos has moved to arrest panic over the appearance of a new computer worm, saying its method of propagation makes it highly unlikely to succeed. The new worm tagged in anti-virus vendor reports as W32/LIOTEN.A (Net-Oil spelt...
[December 18, 2002, 10:57]
Dangerous new Internet worms on the prowl
News Flying low, almost under most people's anti-virus radar, a new group of very sophisticated Internet worms are on the loose. Either way, it is important for all computer users to keep their anti-virus signature files up-to-date.
[December 15, 2000, 14:59]
Trend Micro plugs buffer overflow bug
News Security solutions provider Trend Micro has released a fix for buffer overflow vulnerabilities found in its home user and corporate anti-virus packages. The bug is known to allow individuals to use a controlled buffer overflow to crash the anti...
[December 12, 2002, 12:17]
New Pretty Park virus in the wild
News A new variant of last year's "Pretty Park" virus is making the rounds, according to anti-virus firm Network Associates. Anti-virus programs will detect the Pretty Park, however, Internet users are still cautioned to use care when opening email...
[March 3, 2000, 13:48]
New virus hides behind old technology
News A new virus from the Czech Republic has anti-virus software makers rushing to analyse the ability of so-called "files streams" to infect PCs. Eugene Kaspersky, the head of the Russian anti-virus research company Kaspersky Lab and the first to...
[September 6, 2000, 8:02]
Bad day for bugs
News Under terms of the deal, IBM will pull out of the anti-virus marketplace but will feed anti-virus development through for integration into Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus line. Symantec also gets access to six IBM patents relating to anti-virus...
[May 20, 1998, 12:19]
Trend Micro tackles spam with Kelkea buy
News Anti-virus vendor Trend Micro is trying to maintain a competitive position by broadening its offerings with the purchase of anti-spam vendor, Kelkea, for an undisclosed sum. Graeme Titterington, an analyst at Ovum, said: "This is symptomatic of all...
[June 14, 2005, 18:25]
Zero Hour Virus Outbreak Protection: A Key Layer in Complete Enterprise Email Security
White Papers Every enterprise has some form of anti-virus protection in place, yet malware penetration in the enterprise has become commonplace. This white paper introduces Commtouch Zero-Hour Virus Outbreak Protection (or Zero-Hour AV), an essential complement...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Mobile phone virus hoax on the loose
News A new email hoax has appeared, preying on fears over mobile phone security, anti-virus vendor Sophos said Friday. The email, which claims to originate from the Sophos Anti-Virus alert team, says that a virus spreading between phones displays the...
[June 23, 2000, 12:34]
Microsoft's security strategy pilloried
Talkback Perhaps today's anti-virus and anti-spyware vendors should learn from Microsoft's historic examples. Meaning: motivate" their current customers into 3 years or longer license contracts with lots of legal footprints that can later on be turned into...
[February 21, 2005, 20:48]
NetQin Mobile Antivirus for S60 2nd
Downloads NetQin Mobile Anti-virus, as the first software passing authentic certification by the Ministry of Public Security and product testing by the Research Institution of China Mobile, is a trustworthy mobile product recommended by nokia.com.
[January 20, 2009, 7:00]
Australian Cabir infestation reported
News A Sydney-based business partner of the mobile anti-virus company SimWorks said his Nokia 6600 had contracted the smartphone virus from a taxi driver's smartphone in North Sydney. When I rebooted my phone, the anti-virus software said I have a virus...
[February 28, 2005, 8:30]
Windows Vista SP1 is secure?
Talkback Maybe, Microsoft has a secure Windows operating system (Vista SP1) which does not need anti-virus. I have been refusing to pay the anti-virus mafia ever since they have put the prices up back in 2002 ( in 2001 NAV annual subscription was £2.99 and...
[December 12, 2008, 13:38]
Avast AV
Blog Comment There are many viruses these days that will make a bline for your anti virus software and stop it from phoning home. I favour avir anti virus. This can also be the symptom of a virus. Best thing to do would be to uninstall avast and try to get...
[January 5, 2009, 6:52]
CIH computer virus toll tops 540,000
News The virus, believed by anti-virus software firms to have originated in Taiwan, infects computers running Windows 95 and 98 when a previously infected executable file -- one with the .EXE extension -- is run.
[April 28, 1999, 9:34]
Have you got a bug in your ear?
News On Tuesday, anti-virus firms announced that the first text-paging worm had started spamming users of the cell phone system operated by the Spanish phone company Telefonica. Timofonica does not infect your cell phone," stressed Dan Takata, technical...
[June 7, 2000, 8:54]
CIH hits UK
News Jack Clark, product manager with anti-virus company Network Associates, told ZDNet UK News this morning that a UK college, which he refused to name, was attacked by the CIH/Chernobyl virus Monday morning.
[April 26, 1999, 14:59]
