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Anti-virus companies said they intercepted several copies of a new password-stealing Trojan over the weekend.
Internal employees are becoming the biggest threat in organisations, according to the annual FBI and the Computer Security Institute computer 2004 crime report. But attacks and costs are down.
Although the threat of computer viruses has been a latent concern for well over a decade, experts have warned that a massive viral outbreak has the potential to seriously compromise the very backbone of the Internet. ZDNet Australia takes a look at the viruses of 2001, and the threats for the future.
It's not really an option to omit virus protection, but which vendor should you entrust your protection to? We test two of the leading candidates.
Following its December purchase of anti-spyware specialist Giant, Microsoft has produced a tool designed to protect Windows against spyware. We take a first look at the beta version.
We look at eight mail-server plugins designed to make sure your servers don't take a beating the next time one comes along.
This worm looks for systems already infected with SubSeven, then exploits the backdoor Trojan horse with new code.
A security start-up is borrowing a technique from the research labs to try to give Internet Explorer PCs relief from Web-based attacks.
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