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• McAfee acts to avoid signature quality issues

  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 hacker challenge

  Security systems continue to get more sophisticated--and so do the hackers who are seeking to break through them. How can you best combine your defences to protect your company networks?

• Q&A: Acting Queensland CIO, Alan Chapman

  Alan Chapman, acting CIO for the Queensland government talks to ZDNet.com.au about what makes his job unique, technologies on the way and the biggest threat to his organisation.

• CIH computer virus toll tops 540,000

  The destructive CIH computer virus has slammed South Korea and Turkey -- crashing more than a half a million computers by reformatting hard drives and, in some cases, zapping a key chip on the computers' motherboards.

• Mobile Mosquito premium rate SMS "Trojan" not a virus

  The 'Trojan' SMS dialler infecting mobile phones running pirate copies of the "Mosquitos" game is not actually a Trojan at all but rather a botched copy-protection feature of the original game.

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• The hacker challenge

  Security systems continue to get more sophisticated--and so do the hackers who are seeking to break through them. How can you best combine your defences to protect your company networks?

• Avoid security complacency

  Keeping your network safe from viruses sounds easy, but watch out for complacency. Often, it's your own worst enemy.

Reviews (15)

• Kaspersky Internet Security 2009

  Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 provides adequate protection, but the program itself could use some work in telling the user what's going on.

• ESET NOD32 3.0 Antivirus System (Windows)

  Eset NOD32 3.0 delivers an easy-to-use version of its award-winning antivirus engine. Although our performance testing was mixed, NOD32 continues to rank among the best-rated antivirus products by independent antivirus testing labs.

• 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.

• Sunbelt CounterSpy 2.0

  In its first appearance, CounterSpy was the only antispyware product that correctly identified every piece of spyware in our current active-detection test.

• McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008

  McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008's protection keeps up with the changing threats on the Internet, but the product doesn't excel, burdened by a user experience that's basically unchanged from last year.

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