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Symantec throttles automatic virus-notification 'spam'
News Some users have been getting so frustrated at the high numbers of such emails that they have been dubbed "as annoying as spam", according to Greg Day, solutions architect at rival antivirus firm McAfee.
[May 17, 2004, 12:20]
Security for your business review
Reviews McAfee VirusScan and Symantec's Norton AntiVirus are the two most popular products, and both are fine choices, but there are many other solid products on the market as well. For complete protection, you should consider adding a software-based...
[June 11, 2004, 9:35]
Police arrest suspected virus writers
News Antivirus vendors McAfee and Sophos believe the suspects may have been involved in writing a Trojan variously known as Stinx, Breplibot, and Rykanos. McAfee's UK security consultant Greg Day said that as well as installing a backdoor, the Trojan...
[June 27, 2006, 16:45]
Attack code raises risk for Windows
News McAfee on Monday afternoon said it had spotted a variant of Nirbot that appears to exploit the DNS vulnerability. An attacker can gain control over the compromised computer and use it to send spam, install adware or launch a DDos attack on internet...
[April 17, 2007, 10:27]
IBM: Public vulnerabilities are tip of the iceberg
News Greg Day, UK analyst for security vendor McAfee, told ZDNet.co.uk: "What [Ollmann] is classing as new and unknown vulnerabilities are really processes by which they become known. McAfee's Day said he wouldn't like to put a figure on the number of...
[June 1, 2007, 12:07]
Help & HowTo: Reeezak
News McAfee VirusScan95 For more information, see Central Command, Computer Associates, F-Secure, McAfee, Panda, Sophos, Symantec and Trend Micro. Also known as Keyluc, Maldal.C, and Zacker.C, this worm uses Microsoft Outlook and MSN Messenger to...
[December 20, 2001, 10:43]
Security 'hit-list' for 2007 revealed
News Such a strong prediction is likely to draw fresh criticism of those peddling the mobile malware threat but Sans joins antivirus vendors such as F-Secure, McAfee and Symantec in making the case for greater mobile security.
[October 3, 2006, 8:45]
Text of FBI 'Melissa' warning
News In addition, leading virus detection utilities (including Symantec {http://www.symantec.com}, McAfee {http://www.mcafee.com}, and Trend Micro {http://www.antivirus.com}), when updated properly after March 26, 1999, reportedly detect and clean this...
[March 29, 1999, 8:59]
MyDoom: Prevention and cure
News In addition, the security company iDefense and McAfee are reporting that MyDoom opens port 3127 to listen for commands from a remote attacker. For more information, see Central Command, Computer Associates, F-Secure, McAfee, Norman, Sophos...
[January 28, 2004, 9:05]
Microsoft's Allchin: Vista won't need antivirus
News McAfee and Symantec have both claimed that they have not been granted access to key parts of the operating system, specifically to the kernel of the 64-bit version of Vista, and claim this will hinder their abilities to produce fully functioning...
[November 10, 2006, 14:41]
SpamKiller 2.90 review
Reviews As spammers find new ways to get past filters, McAfee creates new filters, which you can download to SpamKiller by clicking the Update button. A McAfee spokesperson says that the company plans to support these services in a future release, possibly...
[June 17, 2002, 14:15]
Targeted hacking attacks tipped to rise
News Some experts have dismissed the idea that mobile malware is a credible threat, but on Monday McAfee Avert Labs said that mobile security threats are expected to triple next year as smartphones and other mobile devices become more prevalent.
[December 20, 2005, 12:15]
OneCare runs into tracking trouble
News Traditional [antivirus software] vendors like Symantec and McAfee have been encountering these issues for years and this is something that Microsoft is going to have to figure out," Jaquith said. OneCare marks Microsoft's long-anticipated entry...
[December 15, 2005, 9:20]
Norton AntiVirus 2003 review
Reviews Unfortunately, unlike its major competitor, McAfee’s VirusScan, NAV 2003 scans ZIP files during the extraction process -- after you've downloaded them. We did not run the Office Productivity portion of the benchmark because it incorporates McAfee’s...
[September 10, 2002, 7:25]
Microsoft revs up alerts service
News McAfee, for example, will be able to instantly warn its customers of a new computer virus and have a link where people can go to download a new security patch. More than 20 companies are participating in Microsoft's preview program for .Net Alerts...
[October 5, 2001, 14:11]
Is Apple's security honeymoon over?
News It is not that they are impervious; they are targeted less," said Craig Schmugar, virus research manager at McAfee. Overall, only a few currently known worms, viruses and Trojans target the Mac, McAfee's Schmugar said.
[March 1, 2006, 10:20]
Norton AntiVirus 2002 8.0 review
Reviews You will get a nice summary after NAV has worked its magic, but during the process, NAV doesn't tell you how many files it's scanning nor how much time it'll take -- unlike its major competitor, McAfee's VirusScan.
[October 23, 2001, 0:00]
Email security appliances review
Reviews McAfee McAfee and/or Kaspersky And whereas add-on applications may adversely affect mail server performance, an independent appliance has no such impact. Indeed, by filtering out viruses and spam before they get to the server, overall throughput...
[November 12, 2004, 16:25]
Oracle mulls other targets
News During late-morning testimony, California Institute of Technology professor Preston McAfee discussed competition and pricing strategies used by technology companies in general and Oracle specifically.
[June 22, 2004, 8:20]
Symantec launches security as a service
News Other security vendors, such as McAfee and Trend Micro, are also expected to respond to Microsoft's entry with their own beefed-up products. It marks the software giant's entry into the consumer antivirus market, which has been the domain of...
[February 2, 2006, 8:15]
