Antivirus firm McAfee has overhauled its quality control and software testing procedures to avoid repeating a mistake last month that caused a signature update to flag Microsoft Excel as a virus.
The Church of England's publishing arm has advised clergy to ignore Symantec security warnings, after its Norton Antivirus product wrongly identified church software as spyware.
Trend Micro chief executive and co-founder Eva Chen unveiled a new vision for the company that includes 'in-the-cloud' malware analysis.
A hacking competition will attempt to prove that signature-based antivirus is dead but security vendors say, apart from signatures, antivirus is alive and well.
Computer security vendor Symantec has opened test versions of two of its Norton 2009 products to the public.
Banks obviously have an interest in making consumers feel safe. They are there to protect the customers' money. They want customers to use their online services, too, because the channel offers a lower cost per transaction than a branch. But giving away free security software to make customers feel safe is probably doing more harm than good.
Antivirus applications from Symantec, McAfee or Trend Micro -- the three leading AV vendors in 2005 according to Gartner -- are far less likely to detect new viruses and Trojans than the least popular brands.
I found out last week that although Windows Vista will have a snazzy new firewall, by default it will be set to block only incoming traffic -- unless you decide to pay Microsoft an extra US$50 a year...
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