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Viruses bruise Microsoft's bottom line
News A wave of security problems is hurting Microsoft's bottom line. The software giant said on Thursday that companies were reluctant to sign new long-term contracts in the most recent quarter amid concern over the MSBlast worm and other security issues.
[October 24, 2003, 9:05]
TechNet Webcast: Protecting Your Exchange Server 2007 Network From Viruses and Spam (Level 300)
White Papers This webcast focuses on the powerful new agent-based messaging hygiene features in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. In a standard configuration, Exchange Server 2007 provides a person with a competitive antispam solution that is composed of multiple...
[November 24, 2006, 0:00]
Internet Security Trends for 2007: A Report on Spam, Viruses and Spyware
White Papers At the highest level, 2006 saw an increase in both the sophistication and the volume of Internet security threats. Spammers created triple the volume of image-based spam. This threat has a dual effect on infrastructure: incoming mail throughput has...
[November 13, 2009, 0:21]
Playing silly buffers: How bad programming lets viruses in
News One of the most prevalent types of attack on networked computers is the buffer overflow. Searching for such vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Knowledge Base returns many hundreds of examples -- it's the mechanism of choice for the discerning malware...
[January 15, 2004, 16:40]
Using WebMarshal to Stop Web Mail Viruses Before They Do Damage
White Papers Ernst & Young AB is the Swedish branch of Ernst & Young. As a global organization with global clients, it is essential that their systems are kept up and running and operating at peak efficiency. Ernst & Young AB were acutely aware that there were...
[February 21, 2009, 0:24]
Unified Threat Management: How to Stop Spyware, Spam, Viruses, and Other Malicious Attacks
White Papers As networks become more complex and are expected to do more to support and drive business objectives, a simple firewall is not capable of providing the security one's network needs. This is where Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions can be the...
[April 14, 2006, 1:01]
Antivirus firms develop peer-to-peer protection
News Antivirus vendor McAfee is working on techniques designed to combat viruses engineered to spread through peer-to-peer applications such as the popular MP3 file sharing tools Napster and Gnutella. He suggests that they need to cooperate with an...
[March 14, 2001, 6:32]
NTL tightens up its security
News Telecommunication and TV provider NTL has beefed up its network security by deploying an "anti-abuse" system to protect customers from viruses and Trojans, and eventually spam as well. NTL is working hard to provide the highest possible levels of...
[April 29, 2005, 11:30]
Car virus rumours crushed
News Antivirus experts have concluded that mobile phone viruses are unable to infect cars. Technicians at F-Secure announced on Monday they had quashed rumours that mobile phone viruses could spread to cars via Bluetooth, after failing to infect the...
[May 9, 2005, 17:55]
News Burst: Finjan confirms millennium virus onslaught
News Lyons says that warnings about Y2K viruses have by no means been exaggerated and considers the danger of viruses almost eclipses that of the infamous Y2K bug itself. Full story to follow.
[November 5, 1999, 13:12]
Criminals send malware levels soaring
News Security firm Sophos has seen a dramatic rise in the number of viruses, worms and Trojan horses this year as more organised criminals turn to cybercrime. Trojans cannot self-propagate in the same way as viruses, so they have typically been less...
[July 4, 2005, 17:25]
Virus hoax curtails Christmas fun
News As if there are not enough computer viruses, a Christmas Grinch has been spreading rumours of a virus attached to three year-end computer games. While the current files being sent from friend-to-friend across the Internet are currently free from...
[December 15, 1999, 10:03]
Antivirus 'drivers' secure MS Exchange
News Microsoft on Monday will detail a future version of Windows that will make it easier to detect and isolate viruses. The software giant will also show off new features in Microsoft Word 2003 and Exchange 2003 for attacking viruses and spam during...
[April 14, 2003, 14:20]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback I'd have thought that with the multitude of high-profile viruses that are in circulation (Windoze, of course) this would make Linux perfect for the home desktop - as most home users don't have the know-how (and, in all honesty, the common sense...
[November 5, 2003, 9:03]
Will SP2 actually make a difference?
Talkback While there will certainly be trojan horses and viruses, one must also consider that this upgrade is for the average user, and many of these average users have no firewall in place whatsoever, and do not know if they have virus protection in many...
[August 11, 2004, 14:40]
SMEs 'blind' to illegal software risks
News The UK's small businesses are blind to the risks of illegal software, and especially to the dangers posed by viruses, according to the Business Software Alliance. According to a survey of 1,800 businesses across Europe, which was commissioned by...
[April 20, 2007, 12:24]
Antivirus FUD obscures reality
News Anti-virus experts say the metrics surrounding the spread of computer viruses and worms leave a lot to be desired, and have criticised some companies for attempting to capitalise on fear, uncertainty and doubt.
[August 29, 2003, 10:05]
Preventing hack attacks: The must-reads
News For an IT manager, dealing with viruses is just part of the job. You're constantly finding ways to block viruses from infiltrating your system, quickly remedying your vulnerabilities with patches, or, in the worst cases, recovering from an attack.
[January 22, 2004, 9:55]
Is that a virus, or a malfunction?
News Today's PC viruses, Trojan horses, worms, and blended threats can cause run-of-the-mill Windows or application problems, out-of-memory errors, intermittent failures to fully start up, or installation or operation problems with applications.
[October 28, 2002, 17:03]
'Important' Windows flaw could turn critical
News Security experts are bracing themselves for a spate of new worms and viruses designed to exploit of the seven new vulnerabilities announced by Microsoft on Tuesday as part of its monthly patch cycle. Of the new vulnerabilities, Windows Shell (MS04...
[July 14, 2004, 14:30]
