Previous
Y2K Bug Delays Anti-virus System
News Despite strong sales driven by a triple whammy of computer virus outbreaks this spring, PC protection software maker Symantec is debating whether to go ahead with plans to release its next-generation anti-virus solution, the Digital Immune System...
[July 22, 1999, 9:30]
Bugs At Internet Speed?
News The systems for delivering antivirus updates are IBM's Digital Immune System, to be deployed by Symantec, and Network Associates' Rumor. The Digital Immune System and Rumor are the antivirus industry's answer to outbreaks of digital diseases such...
[November 6, 2000, 9:38]
US Report: Symantec Buys Intel Anti-virus Business
News Symantec will use the Intel systems management technology it has licensed to help build the Digital Immune System that Symantec is developing with IBM. The Digital Immune System combines Symantec's products with network technology from IBM to...
[September 28, 1998, 15:57]
Symantec Out To Clean Up Networks
News Miles said that using Ghost and Digital Immune technology will be key to making this possible. Ghost allows the blueprint of an individual computer to be copied and reproduced in minutes, and Digital Immune is an innovative networking application...
[August 20, 1999, 9:33]
Virus Protectors Get A Brand New Bag
News With partner IBM (the anti-virus software maker is nearing completion of its "Digital Immune System. As we distribute information faster and more broadly, we have to be careful," said Steve White, senior manager of IBM's Massively Distributed...
[October 4, 1999, 9:01]
Virus 2000: Nasty And Network Aware
News Called the Digital Immune System, the network of expert systems and client software uses heuristics to recognise possible malicious code and then sends that code up to centralised servers to be analysed.
[December 29, 1999, 15:33]
Did Anti-virus Firms' Protections Fail?
News Loosely based on its biological counterpart, the Digital Immune System finds fixes and then teaches all its nodes about the new virus. Chess suggested that the industry consider creating a system that distributes new virus definitions throughout...
[May 9, 2000, 8:45]
Email Lists Struggle Under Spam Avalanche
News In the early days of the Net, we built a nervous system, but nobody built an immune system," said Marc Smith, a sociologist who studies communities such as Usenet and email groups for Microsoft's research division.
[April 14, 2004, 14:20]
HP Rolls Out Worm-squashing Services
News Notably, IBM has researched ways to make computers and networks self-healing and has researched better ways of responding to digital attacks under its Digital Immune System project. A second service that HP intends to offer mimics medical...
[February 24, 2004, 9:25]
UK Public Embrace IT But Shun Tech Hype
News James Crabtree, who runs the iSociety project, insists that the majority of the population have remained immune to the hype surrounding the digital revolution. Encouragingly for the government, which hopes to switch off the analogue broadcasting...
[July 24, 2002, 15:04]
Microsoft To Standardise HD Photo Technology
News And standards efforts aren't immune to competitive jockeying: Microsoft has faced obstacles trying to standardise its OOXML office document file formats. In short, an influential place at the heart of consumers' digital photography world.
[March 7, 2007, 9:02]
Handhelds Are The New Targets For Viruses
News PDAs are no longer immune to security threats," Risto Siilasmaa, chief executive of Helsinki-based antivirus software maker F-Secure, said7 March in a statement announcing the release of his company's antivirus software.
[March 20, 2001, 9:29]
Can You Ever Be Anonymous On The Web?
News An anonymous Internet, if such a thing existed, would be immune to eavesdropping entirely, and it would have no record of a communication ever existing. Generally speaking, it's relatively simple to intercept — and at the least, monitor — the...
[February 7, 2006, 15:00]
Lagging Technology Exposes Wireless Networks
News Until just recently, phones were immune from viruses simply because they didn't have the power to host them, and PDAs were immune because they were not connected. Instead, IT managers should concentrate on protecting individual digital assets -- an...
[October 18, 2001, 11:56]
US Legislature Suggests China Web Crackdown
News Also, the proposal puts American businesses at a severe competitive disadvantage with China-based firms, which are immune from such rules and can locate servers in China and offer much faster response times for Internet users in that country.
[February 20, 2006, 12:35]
Secure Music, Off-key Standards?
News The first meeting of the SDMI -- an organisation charged with creating a digital music format immune to piracy -- set a fast pace for the development of a specification for portable players, said SDMI Executive Director Leonardo Chiariglione in an...
[March 10, 1999, 9:31]
DMCA Case Verdict: Not Guilty
News But he cautioned that the acquittal did not mean software developers should consider themselves immune from future criminal prosecutions under the law. The case against ElcomSoft is considered a crucial test of the criminal provisions of the...
[December 18, 2002, 8:08]
Critics: EU In Pocket Of Big-music Interests
News If they remain immune they will have no incentive to discuss the issue. On Tuesday one member accused the EU of indirectly funding the music industry's controversial Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI).
[September 29, 1999, 10:02]
Analysis: Symantec AV Buy Pushes Intel's Constant Computing
News As a sideline to the deal, Symantec will use Intel systems management technology to help add IBM's 'Digital Immune System' to automate virus detection and cure. Symantec's intended purchase of Intel's LANDesk anti-virus business is the latest in a...
[September 28, 1998, 17:12]
Bugs At Internet Speed? Pt II
News Symantec will only deploy the Digital Immune System in medium to large companies, where professionals can oversee the process. And errors do creep in. Just ask Richard Armstrong. On Wednesday morning, calls started trickling into Armstrong, a...
[November 6, 2000, 9:39]
