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.
The MyDoom virus will not spread through the shared folders of users of the latest Kazaa programs, with Sharman Networks using peer-to-peer technology to protect against the virus.
Computer security vendor Symantec has opened test versions of two of its Norton 2009 products to the public.
Cybercriminals are increasingly fighting each other, as well as antivirus vendors, in pursuit of illegal gain, Kaspersky Lab has warned.
According to the results of the AusCERT 2006 computer crime survey, even though 98 percent of companies used an antivirus product, almost half of them experienced a virus infection over the past year.
If you ran a software company and an independent security researcher contacted you with proof that your product contains security vulnerabilities, how would you react?
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Banks obviously have an interest in making consumers feel safe. They are there to protect the customers' money. They want customers to use their online services, too, because the channel offers a lower cost per transaction than a branch. But giving away free security software to make customers feel safe is probably doing more harm than good.
Software vendor CA recently took me for a tour around their AV research centre in Melbourne, where I got to visit their "live virus" room, which was the only place in the building I saw a Mac.
Antivirus applications from Symantec, McAfee or Trend Micro -- the three leading AV vendors in 2005 according to Gartner -- are far less likely to detect new viruses and Trojans than the least popular brands.
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Software vendor CA plans to move its Melbourne-based antivirus labs to a new facility after exhausting the space and energy resources at its current location -- by consuming as much power as an average metal-welding factory.
CA's Melbourne office includes one of the largest antivirus research labs in the southern hemisphere. Part of that is a little room that contains numerous filing cabinets stuffed full of 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch disks, each of which contains a "live virus".
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Despite a face-lift, the redesigned McAfee VirusScan Plus continues to consume system resources and leaves its customers lacking support.
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