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McAfee Avert Stinger
Downloads Stinger utilizes next generation scan engine technology, including process scanning, digitally signed DAT files, and scan performance optimizations.The latest version of McAfee Avert Stinger adds more variants to its detection engine.
[July 6, 2009, 20:35]
Microsoft paid $12m to avert Opera lawsuit
News Microsoft agreed to pay Norway's Opera Software $12.75m (£7.13m) to head off a threatened lawsuit over code that made some Web pages on MSN look bad in certain versions of Opera's Web browser, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned.
[May 24, 2004, 14:05]
Use Explicit Conversion Functions to Avert Reckless Implicit Conversions
White Papers The compiler invokes user-defined conversion functions (which are also called conversion operators) implicitly. In most cases, this process is well-behaved and intended. However, there are cases when one certainly doesn't want the compiler to...
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
Taskforce planned to avert galactic armaggedon
News The British government has revealed plans to create a taskforce dedicated to planning for a galactic catastrophe it was revealed Monday. Should the earth be threatened by imminent destruction from an enormous asteroid or comet the new unit will...
[November 30, 1999, 11:44]
Straw moves on RIP Bill to avert Lords' defeat
News According to reports the much maligned RIP Bill is about to be modified by the home secretary Jack Straw, in a bid to protect it from a mauling in the House of Lords. Any move by Straw to modify the bill will be seen as a significant step-down, but...
[June 21, 2000, 15:16]
HP Business Continuity Services Swing Into Action to Avert Datacentre Disaster
White Papers Data is critical to most companies but it is the vital life-blood of dunnhumby, a specialised provider of database management and analytical services to a range of high-profile clients. To support the need for total reliability, the company has a...
[August 25, 2006, 0:00]
Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Tablet PCs.well, it's true that MS has the best tablet tech (if you avert your eyes from the way Apple's going with the iPhone/iTouch, and avert them even harder from the Surface). OneNote is a great piece of software.
[October 24, 2007, 9:03]
Mobile malware to triple in 2006
News Mobile security threats are expected to triple next year as smartphones and other mobile devices become more prevalent, according to a study released on Monday by McAfee Avert Labs. Mobile malware is not the only area expected to rise in the new...
[December 20, 2005, 8:55]
McAfee journal offers 'Sage' security advice
News Published by McAfee Avert Labs, the second issue of Sage was released on Wednesday. Sommer is productions manager for McAfee Avert Labs. But it also includes reports by employees, such as Marcus, who is security research and communications manager...
[April 12, 2007, 9:23]
Rootkits epidemic threatens users
News In the first quarter, the number of rootkits seen by McAfee's Avert In the first quarter alone, the Avert Labs found more than 827 stealth techniques. Avert Labs, compared with 60 in the same period last year, the report noted.
[April 18, 2006, 9:55]
McAfee: Malware scam using Google developer site
News Along with the legitimate code are links to fake videos that direct users to download a missing codec, said Dave Marcus, director of security research for McAfee Avert Labs. The problem is similar to one that was found to be plaguing Microsoft's...
[January 12, 2009, 8:02]
McAfee offers near-instant malware updates
News Instead, Artemis offers instant detection, said Dave Marcus, director of security research and communications for McAfee Avert Labs. The file database maintained at McAfee Avert Labs is much larger than what is possible on the desktop.
[September 9, 2008, 13:32]
Help & HowTo: Slammer
News Slammer causes increased traffic on UDP port 1434 and spreads via an exploit in Microsoft SQL 2000 Web servers, which in turn scans the Internet for other SQL servers to infect, according to Avert, the antivirus research division of security...
[January 27, 2003, 10:18]
NewLove: What went right?
News We don't have reports of widespread damage nor prevalence," said Vincent Gullotto, director of the Network Associates' AVERT research lab. On Friday afternoon the AVERT lab downgraded the threat from the virus to a "medium" risk from the "high risk...
[May 22, 2000, 8:46]
Multi-OS PCs suffer Vista SP1 installation hitches
News The KB935509 update will fail regardless of whether the user currently utilises BitLocker or not, and attempts to remove it will not avert the problem, as the update still requires access to the MBR, under the assumption that the user may choose...
[March 25, 2008, 8:13]
British trojan launches weekend attack
News Because it isn't using a security exploit but rather Microsoft Outlook to spread, people are just as vulnerable to infection as they were with Melissa and Loveletter, if they have no protection in place," said David Emm, product and marketing...
[November 26, 2001, 11:38]
Andy Sinclair, Micro Focus
Talkback Stephen Timms is right to highlight that education and training is imperative if Britain is to avert the impending skills crisis with which it is faced. Most crucially however, this training must be given whilst catering to the needs of a business...
[October 25, 2007, 14:01]
Sarbanes-Oxley and Service Desk: An Approach to Control Objectives
White Papers It was designed to avert financial improprieties in public corporations by requiring officers and managers to certify financial reports. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was passed in reaction to the disastrous financial collapses of that period.
[January 31, 2006, 9:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The company deserves a lot of respect: it saw the problem coming, it took action to avert the consequences and it's been reacting with sanity and far-sightedness throughout. Tuesday 20/01/2004 Keep it with Kodak?
[January 23, 2004, 12:55]
Towards Developing Secure Web Applications
White Papers It explains the threats and vulnerabilities associated with Web application security, and ways to avert and overcome them. This White Paper discusses how to develop secure Web applications and their importance.
[June 27, 2009, 1:21]
