News (82)

  • Microsoft looks for 'protection' money

    Microsoft has spent billions of dollars in recent years to secure its software. Now it's payback time.

  • Mac malware volumes 'spike' without pain

    Apple Mac users have a good reason to feel more secure than their PC-using cousins: compared to malicious software created for Windows systems, malware writers have left OS X in relative peace.

  • Details of Microsoft antivirus software leak out

    An executive of Microsoft in France divulged on Wednesday some of the software maker's plans for its highly anticipated entry into the antivirus software market.

  • Get connected to fix a broken Windows

    After publishing last Monday's column, which detailed my most recent trip to Windows hell, I received an e-mail from Susan Bradley, who besides her regular job as a CPA is the designated network administrator for her firm.

  • Microsoft exec labels XP hack 'frightening'

    "Enlightening and frightening" was the phrase used by a Microsoft executive to describe a hacking demonstration on a Windows XP system by two British e-crime specialists.

More News >

Features and Case Studies (40)

  • Aussie banks: your new security vendor

    It is quickly becoming the norm for Australia's largest banks to offer discounts on or completely free computer security software to boost internet banking security. The question is, why?

  • Beware the Microsoft 'monoculture': Symantec

    Without diversity in security software for Windows, computers running the Microsoft operating system will be sitting ducks, Symantec CEO John Thompson warns.

  • Virus writers elude Microsoft's bounty hunt

    A year on, and the company's US$1 million tip-off program has nabbed just one (alleged) virus writer. Is it a bust?

  • Worms part of IT diet

    It's impossible to predict what lurks in cyberspace but there's sufficient evidence, for the corporate sector especially, to wake up and smell the patches. Unfortunately, Westpac failed to heed the warning signs.

  • New worm outbreak due to complacency: AU expert

    A combination of social engineering and failure to update anti-virus software contributed to the recent outbreak of the latest mass mailing worm, Fizzer, according to one expert

More Features and Case Studies >

Reviews (32)

  • Norton Internet Security 2008

    While Symantec's protection is solid, the overall user experience within Norton Internet Security 2008 could be much, much better. Not all the features work together and use fewer system resources.

  • Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6

    Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6 is light and fast and consistently wins detection awards against the competition; it's worthy of our Editors' Choice designation.

  • Microsoft an antivirus vendor? I doubt it

    Despite its purchase of GeCad, a Romanian antivirus vendor, the software giant will continue to do what it does best--and the rest of the antivirus industry can breathe easy.

  • Eight e-mail virus scanners tested

    We look at eight mail-server plugins designed to make sure your servers don't take a beating the next time one comes along.

  • Microsoft Windows XP SP2

    We recommend installing Windows XP SP2 but only after Microsoft has had a few weeks to work out the kinks.

More Reviews >

Create an e-mail alert for "windows"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
windows


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 7 anti-virus
  2. Popularity: 3 apple
  3. Popularity: 3 backup
  4. Popularity: 3 bugbear
  5. Popularity: 3 business
  6. Popularity: 3 computer associates
  7. Popularity: 3 domino
  8. Popularity: 3 ducklin
  9. Popularity: 4 e-mail
  10. Popularity: 3 etrust
  11. Popularity: 15 european union
  12. Popularity: 3 exchange
  13. Popularity: 4 f-secure
  14. Popularity: 5 firewalls
  15. Popularity: 4 gates
  16. Popularity: 4 hack
  17. Popularity: 4 hacker
  18. Popularity: 3 hackers
  19. Popularity: 9 internet
  20. Popularity: 3 intrusion
  21. Popularity: 4 klez
  22. Popularity: 4 laptop
  23. Popularity: 3 mac
  24. Popularity: 8 malware
  25. Popularity: 4 mcafee
  26. Popularity: 5 microsoft
  27. Popularity: 4 norton
  28. Popularity: 5 notebook
  29. Popularity: 3 office
  30. Popularity: 4 patch
  31. Popularity: 4 paul ducklin
  32. Popularity: 3 sasser
  33. Popularity: 40 security
  34. Popularity: 8 software
  35. Popularity: 11 sophos
  36. Popularity: 4 spyware
  37. Popularity: 15 symantec
  38. Popularity: 16 t&b
  39. Popularity: 3 technology
  40. Popularity: 4 techrepublic
  41. Popularity: 3 trend micro
  42. Popularity: 8 trojan
  43. Popularity: 33 virus
  44. Popularity: 11 viruses
  45. Popularity: 4 vista
  46. Popularity: 3 vulnerabilities
  47. Popularity: 6 vulnerability
  48. Popularity: 18 worm
  49. Popularity: 6 worms
  50. Popularity: 5 xp
Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Alex Serpo Is green IT a marketing fad?
    It seems that green IT has dropped off the radar, with other technology issues moving to the fore. But was green IT ever a real technology movement, or was it just a marketing fad?
  • Array Gutless studios have the wrong target
    I have one word for the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT). Gutless.
  • Array NBN needs workers on board
    Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured