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  • Kaspersky welcomes Microsoft antivirus move

    Microsoft's plans to launch an antivirus application will improve overall Internet security, a leading competitor conceded.

  • 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.

  • Bugbear knocks off Klez in Australia

    Bugbear is on the way to overtaking Klez as the most prevalent virus in Australia, this week knocking Klez off the top of security companies' "top ten" virus lists. In many cases it's the first time in several months Klez hasn't topped the list.

  • Bugbear bugs Aussie business

    As the latest worm attack spread across Australia, many businesses learned they were infected when their printers started exuding reams of garbage. ZDNet Australia spoke to one small business that lost a days work in the latest attack.

  • Sophos: Gates will be proved wrong about spam

    Bill Gates' prediction of January 2004 that spam would be "a thing of the past" within two years has virtually no chance of coming true, according to security company Sophos this week.

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    Suicidal Apple almost ruins AusCERT

    Within hours of arriving at the AusCERT conference in the Gold Coast on Monday, my PowerBook decided it would rather commit suicide than listen to Microsoft's top security executives answer questions about Vista.

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  • 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.

  • Is Windows still relevant?

    In the increasingly Google-YouTube-Web 2.0 age we inhabit, it's become fashionable to dismiss Windows as a relic.

  • Is hard time for worm author too harsh?

    Teenager sentenced to 18 months for writing a MSBlast worm got his just deserts, according to a Web poll. What's your take?

  • Virus writers exploit Microsoft's monthly patch cycle

    The creators of the Bofra worm, which exploits a recently discovered iFrame vulnerability in Internet Explorer, may have timed the release of their worm to throw Microsoft's monthly patch cycle into disarray, say security experts.

  • Worm attacks Google, Microsoft and the Hungarian Prime Minister

    The latest variant of the Zafi worm was discovered on Wednesday and unlike the previous two variants, Zafi.C has been coded to launch a DDoS attack against Google.com, Microsoft.com and miniszterelnok.hu, which is the Web site of the Hungarian Prime Minister.

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  • 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 bug reports may get personal data

    Companies using Microsoft Office XP and Internet Explorer 5 have been warned that documents containing personal information could be sent to Microsoft along with debugging information in the event of a program crash.

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