Microsoft plans to focus on rapid acquisitions to quickly build its security capabilities, the company said this week.
Antivirus specialist Sophos launched a service on Wednesday called ZombieAlert that uses spam traps to find unsolicited e-mail messages originating from supposedly 'protected' computers.
China is host to almost half of the world's malware-infected Web sites.
Miscreants have again adapted the Warezov Trojan horse to target Skype users, Websense Security Labs warned last week.
Blogs started turning toxic in the first half of 2005 as malware authors started using free Web hosting and blogging services to store their malicious files, according to Internet security firm Websense.
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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.
If providers don't pitch in against the threat, customers might defect -- and the health of the Net itself could suffer.
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.
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