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Hospital Implements Innovative Infection Control Through Integrated Data Solution
White Papers Infection Control practitioners relied on multiple databases and disparate systems to accurately track where infected patients had been in the hospital. This required multiple cross checks with other departments for minimizing infection exposure...
[May 6, 2008, 0:00]
NHS Rolls Out Infection-resistant Keyboards
News The NHS is introducing 7,500 infection-resistant keyboards in hospitals across England as part of efforts to make hospitals cleaner and safer. The keyboards have been developed by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) in a...
[May 8, 2008, 8:46]
Companies Escape Sasser Infection
News The number is not a reliable measure of infection, because many of those users may not have been compromised by Sasser, a company representative said. But some Windows XP users asked for help by way of a support list when, as a side effect of...
[May 5, 2004, 8:40]
Companies Escape Sasser Infection
Talkback Earlier this week, I purchased your software with firewall. I was told that a firewall would prevent this type of "people generated" sabatoge (developing viruses just to hurt innocept people). The filewall does prevent viruses from attacking a...
[May 5, 2004, 22:28]
Companies Escape Sasser Infection
Talkback DO Roberts: A firewall will help, yes. It's not completely infallible, but someone would really have to want to hack into your system to get round it. Basically it's like putting a lock on your front door rather than having it wide open.
[May 7, 2004, 11:28]
Italy Struck By CommWarrior Infection
News The mobile phone virus CommWarrior recently surfaced in Italy, in a sign that destructiveness of the Symbian OS nemesis is reaching a boil after simmering for months. As feared, the virus is showing its propensity for spreading.
[May 18, 2005, 10:40]
Consumers - Failing To Protect Themselves Against Infection
News While businesses have had a largely CIH-free week, consumers have not been so lucky. Tales of home users losing megabytes of data have been rife in the last few days. So why are people failing to protect themselves?
[April 29, 1999, 6:18]
'Code Red' Virus Re-infection Expected On 1 August
News The malicious Code Red worm, which affected more than 280,000 systems earlier this month, is expected to begin propagating itself again on 1 August, and is likely to re-infect tens of thousands of systems.
[July 27, 2001, 17:30]
ESafe Gateway Keeps OSF Healthcare System’s Network Healthy And Free From Infection
White Papers eSafe Gateway provides OSF Healthcare System with a comprehensive set of tools that proactively protects of its network from all forms of malicious email and Internet-borne content including viruses, worms, and perhaps more importantly, unwanted...
[May 3, 2004, 0:00]
IE Flaw Introduces New Form Of Infection
News An independent researcher warned that an Internet Explorer vulnerability could turn drag-and-drop into drag-and-infect, even on computers updated with Microsoft's latest security patch. The flaw affects the latest version of Internet Explorer...
[August 23, 2004, 8:15]
How Cooperation Can Beat Viruses
Talkback I believe the answer is to stop the infection in the first place. A mitigating technology that prevents infection from these virus threats is described as an “Executable Authorization Management” technique.
[April 16, 2004, 19:27]
CommWarrior Mobile Virus Hits UK
News The United Kingdom has become the fifteenth country to be witness an infection by the CommWarrior mobile phone virus, security experts claimed on Tuesday. The unsuspecting holidaymaker returned home, and only discovered the infection some weeks later.
[June 28, 2005, 17:05]
Cleaning Up After The MSBlast Worm
News The MSBlast worm has caused widespread infection on the Internet. This ZDNet Australia analysis contains infection information, detection strategies, and clean up instructions. Infection The worm exploits a widely publicised "DCOM" vulnerability...
[August 12, 2003, 14:59]
Worm's Growth Contained As Deadline Looms
News The MSBlast worm's infection rate has slowed as companies and home users clean up compromised computers, according to antivirus firms. Named after the msblast.exe file that contains the program, MSBlast continued to spread to new computers on...
[August 15, 2003, 8:50]
Trend Micro Anti-Spyware For Small And Medium Business Solution Eradicates Spyware For TECO Pneumatic
White Papers It was an overworked IT Manager's nightmare: signs of a spyware infection started slowing down user's computers at TECO Pneumatic. With no installed real-time anti-spyware solution in place, it was critical to diagnose and eliminate the infection...
[April 14, 2006, 0:00]
Netsky.B Outstrips MyDoom
News E-mail inboxes are being swamped as Netsky.B continues to increase its infection rate. MessageLabs, an e-mail management company, claims to have stopped more than 1.3 million email since the virus started spreading, and believes the infection rate...
[February 24, 2004, 7:55]
Beware Of Bagle's Trojan
News The Bagle worm is the first seriously widespread virus or worm we've seen in quite a while, and the severity of the infection is increasing. Plus, administrators need to be aware of a backdoor that can be planted by this infection.
[January 26, 2004, 11:05]
Study: Virus Infections Multiply
News Still, despite increases in the chance of infection, the cost of infections has been low. For the first year, e-mail has replaced the floppy disk as the mode of infection for computer viruses. In its annual Computer Virus Prevalence Survey, the...
[July 26, 1999, 7:54]
Italian Senate Hit By Hack Attack
News The hack was made possible due to an infection by a variant of the Rbot worm, a backdoor Trojan, which can surrender control of key systems to a hacker. Following the infection images of hardcore gay pornography started to be displayed on screens...
[November 24, 2004, 16:00]
Cell Phone Viruses: What? Those Really Exist?
Blog Comment I remain far from convinced about the 'real' threat of mobile virus infection. An expert at Sophos recently described (in an IT Week article) the risk of mobile viruses as 'a raindrop in a thunderstorm' and another article I read recently described...
[June 5, 2007, 17:37]
