Australian businesses are being warned to install patches and signature files to protect against a worm variant which has surfaced in the US and Europe.
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Attendees at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London have predicted the end of e-mail-borne viruses, suggesting the problem has simply had its day.
Last week likely marked the largest proliferation of e-mail virus attacks in more than a year, according to security company Postini.
The proportion of e-mails containing viruses rises drastically, according to one company, and the blame is laid at the door of computer users at home.
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.
If you recently signed up with Microsoft's OneCare Live antivirus service -- and you use Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express -- there is a chance that your stored e-mails have been wiped out.
As the iconic BlackBerry goes from strength to strength in subscriber numbers, so do the threats to the device and the business model.
Symantec is about to launch Norton 360 in Australia and although the product seems to have some interesting features, it will take more than marketing hype to persuade me that the company has stopped making bloated and unreliable software.
When creating a secure, locked down IT system for something that is directly responsible for handling cash transactions would you choose the most popular, most targeted operating system?
Australian businesses are being warned to install patches and signature files to protect against a worm variant which has surfaced in the US and Europe.
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The battle of the browsers heated up this week as Netscape unleashed its latest version and Internet Explorer embraced tabbed browsing.
An e-mail pretending to be a Windows XP security update harbours a malicious Trojan horse that could let hackers build an "army of zombie computers."
Is the war on cyber crime as simple as pointing the finger at China, Russia and the US? We investigate whether these parts of the world are being unfairly blamed.
Before you entrust your credit card information to a malicious user, find out what the American Red Cross has to say about the Septer Trojan horse.
Computer users continue to be duped by false virus alerts persuading them to delete harmless--but sometimes vital--files, and then forward the hoaxes to their friends.
One big reason viruses are still rampant on the Net: Too many people don't use antivirus software. The way to get them to change their ways is to make that software free.
Trend Micro PC-cillin 2003 regains its position among the top three antivirus programs on the market.
"Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks"--Text of e-mail message that accompanies files spreading the W32.Sircam.worm@mm virus.
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