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Microsoft security update flags Google.com for malware

...the Microsoft Forefront forum. "I'm almost sure this is a false positive." Users in countries including the US, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand and... Read more

15 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner
Luxand Blink 2.4

Luxand Blink 2.4

...haircuts, beards or mustaches grown or shaved off while completely eliminating false positives. It helps secure workstations in the office, too. No longer will employees... Read more

8 February, 2012
ESET NOD32 Antivirus (64-bit) 4.2.71.2

ESET NOD32 Antivirus (64-bit) 4.2.71.2

...top awards from testing labs and is recognized for having zero false positives. 3) Lightweight Design - requires less memory and CPU power, allowing your computer... Read more

15 June, 2011
Trend Micro HijackThis 2.0.5 beta

Trend Micro HijackThis 2.0.5 beta

...by hijackers to force you onto their sites. As a result, false positives are imminent, and unless you're sure about what you're doing... Read more

19 April, 2011
Panda Antivirus 1.0

Panda Antivirus 1.0

...So files are easily recovered and restored in the event of false positives Minimum resource consumption: Threats are neutralized without impacting the system. Panda Antivirus... Read more

21 October, 2010

Microsoft tweaks antivirus after Chrome blocking

Both Microsoft and Google have updated software after Microsoft security programs falsely identified the Chrome browser as a Zeus banking Trojan Read more

3 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner
A Bayesian Classification on Asset Vulnerability for Real Time Reduction of False <endeca_term>Positives</endeca_term> in IDs

A Bayesian Classification on Asset Vulnerability for Real Time Reduction of False Positives in IDs

...are installed to alert on suspicious traffic or activity. IDS issues false positives alerts, if any behavior construe for partial attack pattern or the IDS... Read more

1 March, 2012
Intrusion Detection Systems - Analysis and Containment of False <endeca_term>Positives</endeca_term> Alerts

Intrusion Detection Systems - Analysis and Containment of False Positives Alerts

...generate a large number of alerts and most of them are false positive as the behavior construe for partial attack pattern or lack of environment... Read more

1 August, 2010
Improving Retouched Bloom Filter for Trading Off Selected False <endeca_term>Positives</endeca_term> Against False Negatives

Improving Retouched Bloom Filter for Trading Off Selected False Positives Against False Negatives

...Bloom filters, and the error rate, which takes the form of false positives. This paper is about the Retouched Bloom Filter (RBF). An RBF is... Read more

15 July, 2010
Inspyder InSite 3.2.9

Inspyder InSite 3.2.9

...to run automatically and email the results. SmartSense technology helps eliminate false positives generated by industry specific terms, acronyms, and company names. This gives you... Read more

24 May, 2012
SpamSieve 2.9.1

SpamSieve 2.9.1

...Powerful Bayesian spam filtering results in high accuracy and almost no false positives. It adapts to the mail that you receive to get even better... Read more

26 April, 2012
Data Searcher 2.13

Data Searcher 2.13

...confidential or industry type data. It utilizes various algorithms to prevent false positives and determines if the data exists in other file types. It has... Read more

25 April, 2012
DataSearcher SQL 2.13

DataSearcher SQL 2.13

...industry type data within databases. It utilizes various algorithms to prevent false positives and determines if the data is referenced outside of the database. Data... Read more

25 April, 2012
Lost in Translation: Improving Decoy Documents Via Automated Translation

Lost in Translation: Improving Decoy Documents Via Automated Translation

...and documents represent a promising approach to detecting malicious masqueraders; however, false positives can interfere with legitimate work and take up user time. The authors... Read more

13 April, 2012
Power Analysis 1.2.1

Power Analysis 1.2.1

...chi square, and exact binomial). Set your preferred risk of both false positives and false negatives (type I error and type II error)Can also... Read more

24 February, 2012

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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...... and PDP11s too

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I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

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Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

13 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

16 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

17 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

19 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

20 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

21 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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