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Handhelds are the new targets for viruses
News At present, however, only a handful of digital viruses have targeted handhelds. The company surveyed more than 3,000 people and found that almost no handheld owners used antivirus protection, even though 81 percent stated that they worried about...
[March 20, 2001, 9:29]
Renowned Medical Center Safeguards Against E-mail Viruses, Keeps Messages Moving
White Papers With so many mailboxes, UPMC must vigilantly safeguard against viruses carried in e-mail messages. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is one of the most respected medical centers in the United States.
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
Five years ago: Over 1,000 macro viruses - Dr. Solomon's
News Graham Cluley, senior technical consultant at the UK anti-virus house, said that macro viruses are still growing at a rate of about five per day: "The anti-virus business just goes on and on. There are about five new macro viruses a day, although...
[June 3, 2002, 7:01]
Technology Consultancy Avoids Spam and Viruses With Layered E-mail Security Solution
White Papers With the rise in spam and e-mail viruses, Perot sought an effective way to safeguard its own - and its customers' - messaging systems. Perot turned to Microsoft Antigen for Exchange for assistance in protecting company e-mail against viruses, worms...
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
New breed of psychological viruses emerge
News According to Graham Cluley, technology expert at antivirus firm Sophos, MTX is also a perfect example of the current trend for pyschological viruses. It used clever psychology and we are increasingly seeing this in new viruses.
[December 7, 2000, 6:04]
Winamp bug opens door to MP3 viruses
News He also noted that any such virus would only affect Winamp users, a small population compared with the numbers affected by, for example, Microsoft Outlook viruses. For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking...
[April 30, 2002, 13:59]
W32 viruses top the charts
News This year Windows 32 viruses have accounted for all the positions on the top 10 list, according to a virus occurrence summary. Last month, it was reported that computer viruses were proliferating faster than ever, according to British security...
[July 5, 2002, 7:58]
Viruses and DDoS attacks flood UK firms
Talkback In this environment, businesses should consider remotely-managed Internet security protection, which automatically blocks new viruses the moment a signature is released rather than when clients poll for updates.
[March 3, 2004, 8:34]
Finding Viruses and Trojans
White Papers This is often a very useful feature; but it also makes it easier to create viruses and Trojans that run in the background. Most computers are capable of running a large number of programs simultaneously.
[November 1, 2004, 23:00]
How to stop spam and viruses
Talkback I completely agree with your article. I feel fundamentally the net is not different to many advances in technology over the years except one, it is worldwide. Every new invention over the years was a joy with very little regulation and almost all...
[April 15, 2004, 17:15]
How cooperation can beat viruses
Talkback I believe the answer is to stop the infection in the first place. A mitigating technology that prevents infection from these virus threats is described as an “Executable Authorization Management” technique.
[April 16, 2004, 19:27]
Who writes viruses?
Talkback Who are the only group to really benefit from Virus writing? Antivirus companies….Keep those people paying for updates, sounds like a solid growth plan to me.
[September 30, 2003, 4:10]
Viruses can be tamed - by upgrading users' brains
Talkback This article consistantly confuses The Lovsan worm with the I LOVE YOU one. Lovsan is another name for MSBLASTER
[May 5, 2004, 2:20]
How cooperation can beat viruses
Talkback Self-defending networks from Cisco. Don't believe all the hype, marketing or adverts from Cisco on this. It can be "interesting" trying to get it working in some environments and NAC won't be covered on a majority of the Cisco product range till...
[April 21, 2004, 15:08]
Viruses can be tamed - by upgrading users' brains
Talkback Adam, thanks for pointing that out - the article has been corrected.
[May 5, 2004, 9:57]
Security firms scrap over 'mobile viruses'
News Earlier this month, F-Secure was questioned over hyping mobile phone viruses in a bid to sell antivirus products. Compared to conventional email viruses and Internet worms this malware's method of spreading seems extremely ineffective - for the...
[September 23, 2005, 9:55]
Who writes viruses?
Talkback As much as I agree, I dont think all Anti-Virus software companies would be responsible. Surely the ones who get the virus written would be the 1st to have a fix, thus putting them ahead of the others.
[September 30, 2003, 12:49]
Viruses can be tamed - by upgrading users' brains
Talkback Sorry this will be a bit long-winded guys, I just want to get my point across, thanks for being patient with me. I totally agree that users brains have got to be upgraded. I've been using a computer in one form or another for about 30 years and I...
[May 7, 2004, 0:21]
IBM developing fix for Internet viruses
News The code should distribute itself across over the Net and should detect even the most complex viruses as they mutate and spread. The company says that researchers at its Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratory will have the technology ready with a year.
[November 28, 1996, 10:38]
Telewest blames viruses for lost broadband users
Talkback It may also have something to do with their, inability to bill correctly, downtime due to equipment overheating several times throughout the summer, changing fixed IP adresses without notification and not responding to calls logged to their helpdesk.
[November 8, 2003, 13:03]
