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Five years ago: Tests show limits of virus scanners
News In a recent examination, the only package that spotted every single virus was the Norwegian software Norman Virus Control. Virus Bulletin conducts the tests every six months and last time out two packages - Esass Thunderbyte and Frisk Software's F...
[January 15, 2002, 6:01]
Tests show limits of virus scanners
News The only package that spotted every single virus was the Norwegian software Norman Virus Control. Virus Bulletin conducts the tests every six months and last time out two packages - Esass Thunderbyte and Frisk Software's F-Prot - scored 100 per cent.
[January 15, 1997, 12:02]
GFI MailEssentials & GFI MailSecurity VS Symantec Brightmail 6 & Anti Virus
White Papers GFI MailSecurity uses multiple virus scanners to scan inbound email. Using multiple scanners drastically reduces the average time to obtain virus signatures which combat the latest threats, and therefore greatly reduces the chances of an infection.
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Security products may miss malicious files
News A flaw in several virus scanners could let a malicious file evade detection, a security researcher has warned. By adding some data to a file, an attacker could trick virus scanners into letting a malicious executable file pass through, security...
[November 1, 2005, 15:40]
MPP: An Alternative to AmavisD
White Papers These tools integrate open source components - email servers, virus scanners (generally ClamAV), spam scanners (generally SpamAssassin), databases and directories - into complete email filtering solutions.
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Cracking for dummies: Emails that kill
News To the server these methods don't make a difference, but many anti-virus and content scanners freeze when they scan such a file. Each file exploits the assumptions programmers have made about an incoming email, and taken together the 20MB cacophony...
[August 17, 1999, 8:38]
Antivirus software plugs wormholes
News Last summer's Nimda and Code Red worms underscored the weakness in antivirus-software makers' vanilla virus scanners. The worms also used well-known security holes to spread -- holes that vulnerability scanners help seek out and identify.
[April 2, 2002, 15:03]
Bagle worm spawns five siblings
News This means that enterprises are unlikely to detect the virus at the perimeter because .zip files are not usually blocked and the encryption means that antivirus scanners will not be able to unzip the file: "This way they get through many gateway...
[March 1, 2004, 12:45]
Big business at risk as hackers go under cover
News Like antivirus scanners, the pattern-matching technology is fallible. Shipley likened today's intrusion-detection system to antivirus scanners, where each tries to match program signatures to a dictionary of malicious code.
[April 3, 2001, 7:54]
ZoneAlarm Pro 4.0 review
Reviews Next, the Port Probe utility from ShieldsUp tested our system's defence against Internet port scanners. Port scanners will have no trouble finding it. The latter isn't an anti-virus protector -- ZoneAlarm is still missing that important part of PC...
[June 13, 2003, 14:23]
Securely setting up a Linux PC
Talkback Virus scanners use a lot of CPU cycles and memory. There are tools like ClamAV if you want a virus scanner. Most of us don't feel the need yet.
[December 15, 2005, 11:56]
Did anti-virus firms' protections fail?
News Vowing they would be ready for the next great rush to download new definitions to their software, virus scanners beefed up their servers and connections. In the months following the outbreak of the Melissa virus, did security software makers lapse...
[May 9, 2000, 8:45]
So how come...
Talkback We never hear anything about any virus/malware scanners being deployed for smart phones? or firewalls?
[November 23, 2009, 21:17]
Outcry forces reprieve for Outlook Express
Talkback I love Incredimail, the only problem is that most virus scanners, Do Not support it. Outlook Express is at least supported by virus makers. Forget the virus scanner for Incredimail. That begins to create a problem.
[September 29, 2003, 21:18]
AbuseShield
Downloads Most malware fighting applications such as virus scanners look for known patterns and need to be updated with recent definitions to be effective. AbuseShield picks up where anti-virus and firewall software fail, by proactively shielding your system...
[March 29, 2006, 8:00]
Assembler virus spells trouble for Linux
Talkback The approach with virus scanners has always been to know what is bad. E.g.when your office program starts formatting your disk because of a macro virus app armours will not allow this action. You might wish to see app-armour as a vault and virus...
[April 10, 2006, 12:44]
Malicious code 'could hide in Windows Registry'
Talkback So basically: the clean bill of health from the anti-virus and anti-spyware scanners that everyone has been getting is now completely worthless. But apparently, no-one should worry because this is a Windows feature and not a bug.
[August 30, 2005, 13:24]
Worm and virus overload networks
Talkback Yet again, those people using Exchange and outlook are being massacred with the new worm.and those people using Lotus Notes are sitting happy either watching their virus scanners catch the virus or, if they are unfortunate enough to open the...
[August 20, 2003, 10:26]
Why One Virus Engine Is Not Enough
White Papers This white paper explains the importance of response time, shows the response time differences between virus engines, and explains why having multiple scanners at mail server level decreases the average response time and therefore the chance of...
[May 26, 2006, 1:00]
ISMail
Downloads ISMail supports multiple domains, unlimited mail accounts, account quotas, mailing groups, anti-spam filters, anti-virus scanners, open relay protection, statistics, Windows Services, and log files. Mail server for Windows with ESMTP/POP3/IMAP4 and...
[June 20, 2007, 12:19]
