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  • Symantec warns of "parasitic storage"

    Security specialist Symantec has warned businesses over an increasing trend for criminals to use "parasitic storage" on networks of compromised systems

  • Symantec products threatened by Active X flaw

    Symantec is urging its customers to patch their security products after being warned about a critical vulnerability that could allow hackers to execute code remotely.

  • Microsoft accused of withholding Vista APIs

    Security vendors are claiming Microsoft was deliberately withholding access to its Vista spyware product, but the software giant denied the charge.

  • Symantec and Microsoft bury security hatchet

    Antivirus specialist Symantec has joined a security organisation alongside Microsoft, despite having previously come to very public blows with the software giant over its willingness to share security information on Vista.

  • Microsoft partner: Vista less secure than XP

    Security company Kaspersky claimed that Vista's User Account Control (UAC), the system of user privileges that can be used to restrict users' administrative rights, will be so annoying that users will disable it.

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  • Symantec: Mozilla browsers more vulnerable than IE

    But security firm also finds that Microsoft's IE is the only browser widely exploited by hackers today.

  • Do-gooder Trojan has nasty bite

    Symantec is warning Internet users of a Trojan horse that removes spyware but alters the security settings in computers.

  • Symantec and Sophos ANZ square off

    The men at the helm of two of Australia's largest security software companies check each other's defences. Additional reading: Microsoft launches Australian security effort

  • Xombe Trojan poses as Microsoft warning

    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."

  • Battle of the bots

    You can't hear them and you can't see them, but be warned, bots are all around us and they do have a search-and-destroy attitude that could be the death of your business.

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