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Antivirus-killing virus threat upgraded
News Antivirus companies warned PC users on Thursday that a variant of the nine-month-old Bugbear virus has started spreading across the Internet, installing tools on infected computers that let intruders control the systems.
[June 6, 2003, 10:22]
Antivirus firms unfazed by free Microsoft product
News A representative for AVG Technologies, maker of AVG Antivirus, told ZDNet UK's sister site, CNET News.com, on Wednesday: "We view this as a positive step for the AV [antivirus] landscape. AVG has believed in the right to free antivirus software for...
[November 20, 2008, 9:29]
Antivirus firms rebut naming accusations
News Antivirus companies have defended themselves against accusations that the fragmented naming system for viruses causes confusion among computer users, and may leave them exposed to danger. The charges were made in a report published by email...
[January 9, 2003, 10:06]
Antivirus software decrypts Bagle attachments
News Recent versions of the Bagle worm have bypassed corporate gateway security because they are distributed in password-protected Zip files, which are next to impossible for antivirus programs to scan. On Wednesday, antivirus vendors BitDefender and...
[March 4, 2004, 16:50]
Antivirus virus on the loose
News Clive Wainstein, pre-sales engineer at Trend Micro, told ZDNet Australia that in five years working in the antivirus field he had never seen a virus attempt to delete another one. The idea of a virus that removes a virus has been tossed around for...
[January 20, 2003, 9:23]
Antivirus firm to attack junk email
News Antivirus company Trend Micro is jumping into the spam-fighting fray, unveiling new software it hopes will help information technology managers protect their workers from an increasing barrage of unwanted messages.
[March 3, 2003, 14:36]
Antivirus is biggest security expense
News Spending on security software across Europe will top €2.4bn (£1.65bn) this year, with antivirus continuing to form the largest slice of the pie. Antivirus will account for more than 50 percent of the total security software revenue market in 2007...
[September 14, 2007, 9:31]
Antivirus flaw crashes Exchange servers
News In the digital equivalent of an autoimmune disease, Microsoft Exchange servers at a handful of companies have crashed because of a flaw in the Network Associates antivirus software that's designed to protect them.
[June 13, 2003, 8:06]
Antivirus firm improves security after emailing virus
News Finland-based F-Secure has added more security to its customer mailing lists, after a moderator accidentally forwarded a virus to users of the company's antivirus software. As a result, the company will no longer accept outside email messages to...
[March 5, 2004, 9:55]
TechNet Webcast: Antivirus and Antispam Managed Services: When and How to Outsource E-mail Hygiene (Level 200)
White Papers This webcast presents how outsourced e-mail security services provide enterprise antispam and antivirus protection and detail the benefits of such services in terms of cost, efficiency, security, policy enablement, and archiving.
[February 7, 2006, 23:00]
Antivirus plans 'still under development' - Microsoft
News Microsoft intends to create an antivirus service in the near future, but has not finalised its plans, a company executive said on Tuesday. Our plan is to make antivirus part of our pay-for product offerings," she said.
[June 16, 2004, 9:15]
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. In the case of Napster, this makes it possible for...
[March 14, 2001, 6:32]
Antivirus vendors crack down on eBay licence cheats
News Two of the world's largest antivirus software vendors are launching legal action against software thieves selling illegal versions of well-known security products on eBay. McAfee takes the sale and distribution of pirated software extremely...
[May 18, 2006, 8:55]
Antivirus Protection in Microsoft Exchange Environments: Understanding Different Approaches in Exchange 5.0 Through Exchange 2003
White Papers Providing high performance antivirus and content management protection for Microsoft Exchange environments requires that administrators implement solutions based on the most comprehensive and reliable scanning methods available.
[June 24, 2009, 9:39]
Antivirus Scanning Best Practices Guide
White Papers This paper will describe the integrated antivirus architectures for both NetApp filers and NetCache appliances and describe some best practices for deploying these solutions.
[June 24, 2009, 8:39]
Antivirus Software and Disk Defragmentation
White Papers Want to speed up your antivirus scans? They tested the four antivirus software packages that make up 90 percent of the market. Download this white paper and see how much faster your antivirus software should be running.
[April 24, 2008, 13:41]
Antivirus firms consider protection against Sony DRM rootkit
News Antivirus firms are considering protecting their customers from the digital rights management software used by Sony on some CDs. The issue reaches much further than the individual PCs of those users who buy particular Sony CDs, say the antivirus...
[November 4, 2005, 16:35]
Antivirus software plugs wormholes
News Security company Network Associates unveiled on Monday new antivirus software designed around the principle "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Current antivirus software scans for malicious code on potentially infected computers or...
[April 2, 2002, 15:03]
Antivirus holes zipped up
News Sophos updated its antivirus engine on Wednesday to plug a security hole that allowed virus writers to manipulate compressed files and avoid detection by the antivirus software's scans. Symantec on Wednesday hit back at claims by Secunia, a...
[October 20, 2004, 9:30]
Antivirus software just got better!
Member Review I needed an antivirus software that was robust, reliable, and most importantly effective. I think that McAfee is a very good choice if you are looking for an antivirus software that is robust, reliable, and does not use up alot of system resources.
[May 6, 2004, 23:10]
