Microsoft's chief executive officer Steve Ballmer is scheduled to announce tonight (Sydney time) that the software giant will finally launch anti-virus and anti-spyware products for enterprises.
Microsoft last week announced it would launch a set of anti-virus and anti-spyware products but will enterprises trust the software heavyweight to protect its own products and more importantly, will they pay for the privilege?
Apple Macintosh users could be making themselves less secure by installing Symantec's flagship anti-virus application.
Exploit codes that take advantage of a security vulnerability in Symantec's Norton AntiVirus software have been published on the Internet, which could leave users vulnerable to an attack.
Symantec is investigating a potential weakness in the way its corporate antivirus software stores login credentials, the security vendor said on Wednesday.
If you ran a software company and an independent security researcher contacted you with proof that your product contains security vulnerabilities, how would you react?
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Symantec published its 10th Internet Threat Report this week and quietly admitted a few days later that its predictions of increasing Mac-targeted spyware threats have not been realised.
Exploit codes that take advantage of a security vulnerability in Symantec's Norton AntiVirus software have been published on the Internet, which could leave users vulnerable to an attack.
One big reason viruses are still rampant on the Net: Too many people don't use antivirus software. The way to get them to change their ways is to make that software free.
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Anti-virus companies have played down the threat from the Nolor (aka Cailont) mass-mailing e-mail worm, a "garden variety" virus that spreads by sending itself to Windows address book entries through an executable attachment.
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Seventy-five million downloads can't be wrong, right? Phenomenally popular security program AVG Anti-Virus has upgraded to version 8, and editor Seth Rosenblatt takes a First Look at the revamped interface.
Andy Solterbeck, the VP of product strategy and management at SafeNET, talks about why IT security is moving beyond things like anti-virus and firewalls.
Antivirus software makers aim to protect users against Internet threats, but now have to face a new threat of their own: Microsoft.
One big reason viruses are still rampant on the Net: Too many people don't use antivirus software. The way to get them to change their ways is to make that software free.
Commentary: It's sad, but true. We'll see plenty of e-mail viruses in 2004, despite expectations that these pests would disappear in 2003. Here's why viruses won't go away--and how to protect yourself.
AVG Anti-Virus 7.1 Professional Single Edition is a solid, no-frills virus scanner. But you'll need to purchase antispyware software and a firewall for complete protection.
Most of us "set and forget" our anti-virus software. But to be safe, you should regularly check that the automatic update feature has not been disabled by a virus.
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