Symantec has launched a suit charging Microsoft with misappropriating its intellectual property and with violating a licence related to data storage technology.
Symantec will fight off Microsoft's security software challenge by being better at coming up with new ideas, the company's CEO said on Monday.
Symantec's CEO claims the company stopped being an anti-virus firm six years ago and explains why Microsoft does not cost him any sleep.
But security firm also finds that Microsoft's IE is the only browser widely exploited by hackers today.
An admitted counterfeiter has agreed to pay Microsoft and Symantec US$1.1 million in restitution, a victory in the software industry's fight against software piracy.
Without diversity in security software for Windows, computers running the Microsoft operating system will be sitting ducks, Symantec CEO John Thompson warns.
But security firm also finds that Microsoft's IE is the only browser widely exploited by hackers today.
Alarmist advice and unbacked claims by security software vendor Symantec has the Macintosh community up in arms.
In the increasingly Google-YouTube-Web 2.0 age we inhabit, it's become fashionable to dismiss Windows as a relic.
Product marks company's entry into market for desktop security products for businesses, but not much is known about it yet.
Alarmist advice and unbacked claims by security software vendor Symantec has the Macintosh community up in arms.
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.
Windows Live OneCare is the first of many managed online security services to debut this year. We recommend waiting, then comparing the offerings from Symantec, McAfee, and other established security vendors before deciding on a managed online security service.
While XP SP2 is a huge step forward for Microsoft, there are important caveats. For example, don't expect the new Windows Firewall to prevent keystroke-logging Trojans from stealing your credit card info.
Microsoft is investigating the possibility that a file posted to several underground sites and chat rooms contains some protected source code to Windows 2000.
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