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MS Lawyers Join Open Source Fray
News Microsoft lawyers have joined the company's campaign against open source software, restricting how developers may use what it terms "viral software" in connection with Microsoft programming tools. The license of the second beta version of Microsoft...
[June 25, 2001, 9:12]
Greeting Card Virus Brings Bad Tidings
News The viral e-card is just the latest example of questionable software. The viral Web greeting card attracts users with an email masquerading as a message from an acquaintance and stating that an e-card awaits at a Web site, such as "Friendgreetings...
[November 13, 2002, 11:28]
Instant Messaging - Better Safe Than Sorry
News You keep everything patched, run real-time, antiviral IM programs on your gateway, such as Elron Software's IM Message Inspector, and run up-to-date viral protection programs on your clients. The way to handle this, of course, is the same way you...
[October 4, 2001, 10:57]
New Twist In Net Copyright Struggle
News But for an encore act Bales, who left Napster in January, is now involved in shepherding a technology to market that he says will help reintroduce a degree of control over so-called viral networks. Napster proved content is still king and the scary...
[July 17, 2000, 9:16]
"Infectious" Open Source Software: Spreading Incentives Or Promoting Resistance?
White Papers Popularly, this is called a viral license, but the software is not a computer virus. Some free or open source software infects other software with its licensing terms. Popular open source software, including the GNU/Linux operating system, uses a...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
Traffic Virus Ebooks
Downloads This ebook software was specifically designed to create free viral, customizable and brand-able ebooks that unleash a solid Internet marketing strategy for affiliate marketers and desktop publishers. Traffic Virus Ebooks is a free HTML ebook compiler.
[March 6, 2008, 9:01]
HiddenFinder
Downloads The termination of hidden process immediately stops a major portion of the Trojan or viral software attack. HiddenFinder can dig out the hidden malicious program and kill them instantly. HiddenFinder shows all running processes and driver including...
[September 6, 2008, 12:16]
Defending IT Infrastructure: What Your Security Policy Should Say About Computer Pests ...
White Papers Good pest control software will search for a wide range of malicious non-viral software and help create evidence documenting the effectiveness of your computer pest management program. Combating computer pests, which can open back doors into...
[November 2, 2004, 2:00]
Yuwie PayDay Make Money Software
Downloads Use the power of viral marketing to help your yuwie earnings soar into the top 10. Inside this software you can customize it to display your own private profile page and manage your admin area. Everything you need to know to start raking in the...
[September 16, 2008, 18:46]
Biohazard
Downloads A devestating viral infection has taken over your ship! Note:This software comes with Dealio Shopping toolbar, that can be installed or uninstalled at the user's choice. Blast your way through the monsters that used to be your crewmates and make...
[December 11, 2007, 23:01]
Policy And Legal Implications Of Spyware And Data Privacy
White Papers For years computer viruses have threatened productive use of personal computers, challenging users and support providers to Prevent and recover from viral attacks. Typically, analyses of spyware focus on technical issues or provide pointers to...
[April 14, 2006, 1:01]
Anti-Virus Solutions For Lotus Domino
White Papers Failure to provide all four elements implies that the habitat does not support viral programs. Although four years have past since Sybari Software released its first report on virus threats in the Lotus Notes environment, the Lotus Notes/Domino...
[September 8, 2003, 1:58]
Microsoft: Gmail Is A Virus
News Gmail's popularity may be viral, but the email software is not a virus — despite a Microsoft alert. From late last week until Sunday night, the Windows Live OneCare security software incorrectly flagged the Google email service as a threat.
[November 14, 2006, 8:23]
Rupert Goodwins: Mobile Phone Viruses Are Coming
News The modern GSM cellphone is a smart terminal on a complicated network with lots of security features, but at heart it is a computer that can download and run software -- get viral code in there, and you've cracked it.
[June 8, 2000, 15:06]
Viruses Pack Triple Threat
News These tiny Trojan horses are being used in combination with viral programs and Web site hosting to dupe PC owners and bypass security software. There is a huge population that recognises these spammings are false, but there is a small population...
[January 19, 2004, 10:10]
The Truth About Viruses, Worms And Trojans
News At its simplest, AV software scans executable files or areas of disk for fragments of code called signatures that it knows to be a viral program. Like all security software, AV programs are to some extent intrusive on normal work.
[October 16, 2002, 14:54]
Software Jihad
Blog In fact a viral attack should be launched so that all those desktops that have Windows Update turned off can still be targeted by a spam email virus. An argument can be made that Microsoft by allowing their software to run basically unhindered even...
[November 2, 2008, 14:04]
Microsoft Meets Red Hat
News The license requires that software derived from a GPL program also be covered by the GPL, a provision Microsoft and others have termed "viral". Microsoft also has settled antitrust matters with software maker Burst.com, Novell and Time Warner's...
[May 11, 2005, 9:05]
Antivirus-killing Virus Threat Upgraded
News Email service provider MessageLabs also gave the virus a high-risk rating, saying that the company's gateway servers -- which filter out emails containing spam and viral attachments on behalf of clients -- had stopped 60,000 virus-laden emails in...
[June 6, 2003, 10:22]
Bin Laden Ploy Spreads IM Adware
News The power of such licences to transform a viral program into a legal -- albeit questionable -- application has some legal experts worried that future Internet attackers could get protection by using one of the software industry's best weapons: the...
[February 12, 2004, 7:15]
