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Cult's Anti-virus Notions Laughable - AV Industry
News Another Anti-Virus expert, Jack Clark, European Product Manager for Dr Solomon anti-virus, is also exasperated by the Cult's claims. The Cult claims that CDC Protector combines signature scanning and application "sandboxing", to offer greater...
[July 19, 1999, 11:37]
SANS Warns Of Biggest Ever Hacking Probe
News Another network anti-virus expert from Datafellows Antivirus, Paul Brettle, agrees. No anti-virus firm has reported detecting Ring0.vxd in the wild. Most anti-virus software will detect its activities according to Jack Clark of Network Associates...
[October 15, 1999, 12:53]
"Virtually" Eliminate Spam And Viruses: Virtualization Comes To Messaging Security
White Papers This "virtual appliance" offers all of Proofpoint's anti-spam, anti-virus, secure messaging, data privacy and intellectual property leak prevention features in an easy-to-deploy package for VMware's virtualization products.
[April 7, 2008, 0:00]
'Tis The Season For Computer Viruses
News Smith, the number of new viruses appearing on the Internet appears to be accelerating as the end of the millennium draws near, anti-virus firms said Friday. We had an unprecedented deluge of viruses over the past two weeks and we see no sign of it...
[December 13, 1999, 9:08]
Trojan Defence Acquits British Teenager
Talkback I know very little about computers but I know enough to put a decent firewall and a reputable anti-virus program in place. Can anyone, with any knowledge, really believe that an "expert" could allow his computer to become vulnerable to a trojan?
[October 20, 2003, 5:02]
The Impact Of Disk Fragmentation
White Papers The paper also reveals the massive performance impact of fragmentation on other common applications such as Microsoft® Word, Microsoft Outlook, anti-virus scans and Microsoft Anti-spyware. The paper, written for Windows IT Professional Magazine by...
[July 3, 2007, 0:00]
Virus-writer Turns Tail, Covers Tracks
News "Raid", a virus-writer who distributed the Toadie.exe virus and then taunted the authorities on a number of public newsgroups, could now be trying to cover his tracks, according to one anti-virus expert.
[August 26, 1999, 3:00]
Cracking For Dummies: Emails That Kill
News That was the point brought home to anti-virus software makers when a crusading security expert demonstrated email security flaws with a variation of the so-called Ping of Death attack. Rosenberger created numerous files to demonstrate the...
[August 17, 1999, 8:38]
US Report: Dr Solomon's Buyout Delays Mac Virus Update
News Updating anti-virus utilities is not at the top of most users' to-do lists, said virus expert Rob Rosenberger, who runs the Computer Virus Myths Homepage. Delays in issuing virus updates were caused by security software giant Network Associates...
[October 1, 1998, 9:06]
Melissa Hits The UK
News Meanwhile, another leading anti-virus expert says Melissa has exposed the fact that Microsoft has too few controls in its Office environment. Anti Virus company, Dr Solomons, has been dealing with calls all morning.
[March 29, 1999, 12:03]
Warning - Viruses Being Spread By Job-hunters
News An expert at Symantec Anti-Virus is more sceptical of the report. Jack Clark, European Anti-Virus Product Manager for Dr Solomon's said: "I can see it being a very significant problem. But most companies are picking up on this situation and are...
[July 7, 1999, 12:58]
Virus Morphs Into 'Mad Cow'
News When opened, the virus also pings -- or, repeatedly hits -- two Web sites, one run by anti-virus expert Fred Cohen, the subject of the virus message, and @Home. The new mad cow joke virus is unrelated to other so-called Mad Cow viruses that have...
[March 31, 1999, 10:38]
Jane Wakefield: Have You Caught The Love Bug?
News Anti-virus firm MessageLabs describes it as "the most destructive virus ever" and it would be pretty safe to assume that working in an IT department is not the best place in the world to be Friday morning.
[May 5, 2000, 10:13]
Legion Of New Viruses Approaches
News Kevin Street, technical expert with Symantec anti-virus claims the process of interpretation of macro programs between WordPerfect and Word provides a handy stumbling block. It's also not enough just to buy an anti-virus program any more.
[August 5, 1999, 10:29]
Sasser Bounty Hangs On Conviction, Says Microsoft
News The progress of German police in the case heartened Hemanshu Nigam, head of Microsoft's Anti-Virus Reward Program, a $5m pool for rewarding people who ferret out those who release viruses and worms. This is the first time that charges have been...
[September 13, 2004, 8:15]
Resistant Virus Strains To Hit The Net?
News The social engineering on this virus is astounding," said David Perry, researcher with anti-virus firm Trend Micro Inc. Electronic Arts, for example, is sitting down for a heart-to-heart with its anti-virus software provider, said EA's Gordon.
[June 15, 1999, 8:04]
Virus 2000: Nasty And Network Aware
News This next decade will be the decade of the worm," said Cary Nachenberg, chief researcher at Symantec Corp.s Anti-virus Research Centre. The problem with network-aware viruses that use the Internet to spread is that they can quickly outrun the...
[December 29, 1999, 15:33]
Antivirus Vendors Warn Of Fretheme Worm
News On Wednesday night anti-virus software vendor Trend Micro issued a yellow (medium) alert for what it refers to as Worm_Fretheme.E. Anti-virus vendors sometimes use different names for worms, and incidents of the W32/frethem.f@mm variant have also...
[June 13, 2002, 9:03]
Microsoft: 'We Won't Charge To Fix Vulnerabilities'
News Microsoft has recently completed the acquisition of antivirus company Sybari and launched an anti-spyware service which it says 20 million people worldwide have signed up for. Some of the anti-spyware services will be provided for free but Eckert...
[July 6, 2005, 9:40]
Anti-Sniff Software Inadequate - BugTraq
News One security expert from the Electronic Computer Science Department at Southampton University criticises the program "Anti-Sniff" for only detecting behaviour associated with sniffing, rather than sniffing itself.
[July 27, 1999, 11:28]
