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Sophos' anti-virus chief, Jan Hruska, says the race to perfect "on-access" virus scanning technology for desktop versions of Linux and FreeBSD has the company's Unix security developers "tearing their hair out".
If e-mail security is giving you headaches, before you turn to voodoo magic, try one of these hardware appliance solutions.
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If e-mail security is giving you headaches, before you turn to voodoo magic, try one of these hardware appliance solutions.
RMIT IT Test Labs take a look at the top enterprise applications for stopping viruses from ravaging your organisation.
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Once simply alarm systems for the network, Intrusion Detection Systems have evolved to encompass a whole lot more. We review six sophisticated security devices.
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