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Symantec Under Attack From MyDoom
News A spokeswoman from Symantec said: "The team is currently analysing this. Antivirus firm Symantec is facing a denial-of-service attack on its Web site from the latest version of the MyDoom worm. It shouldn't bring down someone like Symantec though.
[September 14, 2004, 13:10]
Symantec Trims Workforce To Cut Costs
News As part of that, an unspecified number of employees are now being let go, Melissa Martin, a Symantec spokeswoman, said on Thursday. Symantec this week started sending out pink slips to employees across the company as part of a cost-reduction effort.
[March 16, 2007, 8:16]
Symantec Labels Anti-censorship Software A Trojan
News A spokeswoman from Symantec UK said that it would be "inappropriate" to comment on the matter. Symantec's Norton AntiVirus product has blacklisted software that allows users in China to access government-blocked Web sites.
[September 15, 2004, 13:00]
Symantec Fixes Its Church Spyware Mistake
News Having reviewed the query, the issue was addressed and a response was sent to CHP on 11 July, advising them to run Live Update and respond to confirm that this rectified the signature and corrected this issue," a Symantec spokeswoman told ZDNet UK.
[August 4, 2006, 14:50]
Symantec Calls CyberMedia Lawsuit 'marketing'
News Instance One: The text of the help files are nearly identical in places, even going so far as to explain that the "Advice tabs are green," said CyberMedia spokeswoman Lisa Stein. "We find this to be setting a new standard of outrageousness in law...
[February 12, 1998, 10:38]
Symantec Error Gets Vicars In A Twist
News Having reviewed the query, the issue was addressed and a response was sent to CHP on 11th July, advising them to run Live Update and respond to confirm that this rectified the signature and corrected this issue," a Symantec spokeswoman told ZDNet UK.
[August 3, 2006, 14:35]
Symantec Stays On Trail Of Vista Bugs
News Symantec continuously researches and analyses new technologies," said Pamela Reese, a Symantec spokeswoman. After poking around the Windows Vista networking stack, Symantec researchers have tried out privilege-escalation attacks on an early version...
[July 25, 2006, 9:40]
MSBlast Spreads Fast But Impact Is Limited
News We're hearing from a lot of customers, especially consumers who have been infected or want to know how not to be infected," a Dell spokeswoman said. PDT, while Comcast spokeswoman Sarah Eder said her employer started blocking the ports at 9 p.m.
[August 13, 2003, 9:04]
Hoax Email Virus Victims Seek Fix
News This is social engineering on a grand scale," said Symantec spokeswoman Lucy Bunker. Antivirus researchers at Symantec have published information on a special sulfnbk.exe site with details about how to retrieve the file.
[June 1, 2001, 9:55]
Microsoft's Allchin: Vista Won't Need Antivirus
News Microsoft has yet to provide the interface — filtering APIs — needed to address the issues created by PatchGuard," a Symantec spokeswoman told ZDNet UK on Thursday. McAfee and Symantec have both claimed that they have not been granted access to key...
[November 10, 2006, 14:41]
Lucent Caught Out By Melissa
News According to a company spokeswoman, the virus was discovered late Friday, forcing the company to shut down e-mail systems. Lucent's IT department is working to "restore it as soon as possible," the spokeswoman said.
[March 31, 1999, 16:02]
Amazon UK Enjoys Busiest Day Ever
News The online retailer said on Tuesday that more than 400,000 items were dispatched in one day, although a spokeswoman declined to reveal the date in question. A Microsoft spokeswoman said it does not ask for proof that the purchaser of the software...
[January 4, 2005, 12:55]
Homepage Worm Spreads Quicker Than Lovebug
News A MessageLabs spokeswoman this afternoon said the proportion of emails infected with the worm puts Homepage on par with the most prolific virus of all time, the Love Bug. Antivirus vendor Symantec said that last night more than 30 companies...
[May 9, 2001, 11:29]
Windows Worms Wreak Havoc
News The New York Times has been hit by the virus, but the assault has not impacted the delivery of the news, said a spokeswoman for the publication. The pain is being felt "on the inside", agreed David Cole, the director of product management at...
[August 17, 2005, 10:15]
FBI Investigates Nimda Worm
News There has been no indication that this is linked (to Tuesday's) attack," said FBI spokeswoman Debbie Weierman. It does appear to be more aggressive than Code Red," said spokeswoman Pamela Sklar of network equipment maker 3Com.
[September 19, 2001, 9:22]
A Year Ago: Love Bug Comes In 13 Variants
News Symantec spokeswoman Melissa Dempsey said Australians returned to work today cautious about their email. Anti-virus computer company Symantec said about 1.5m Australians were among the estimated 45m computer users affected by the virus.
[May 8, 2001, 6:09]
'Love Bug' Comes In 13 Variants
News Symantec spokeswoman Melissa Dempsey said Australians returned to work today cautious about their email. Anti-virus computer company Symantec said about 1.5m Australians were among the estimated 45m computer users affected by the virus.
[May 8, 2000, 10:19]
Steady Back-up Effort On The Way From IBM
News Symantec plans to market the final product in the next couple of months, said a company spokeswoman. Veritas, now owned by Symantec, currently has a beta out for a product called Panther. IBM plans to announce new data-backup software on Friday...
[August 26, 2005, 9:25]
WebGain Sells Java Development Tool
News The lone remaining WebGain asset yet to be sold is a modelling tool called Application Composer, a WebGain spokeswoman said. WebGain, a three-year-old company spun off from Symantec, has laid off most of its 400 employees and has been trying to...
[August 13, 2002, 9:09]
Microsoft Feuds With Rivals Over Vista Security
News Microsoft's Windows Security Center demonstrates fairly limited sophistication, and having [it] control the console could take away the consumer's visibility into the threats he faces," said Siobhan MacDermott, a spokeswoman for McAfee.
[September 20, 2006, 9:00]
