News (5)

  • Symantec buy creates Aussie millionaires

    The Australian founders of PC Tools are likely to be laughing all the way to the bank this morning after the locally based firm was acquired overnight by giant global rival Symantec.

  • Microsoft blames users for malware on Vista PCs

    Around 70 percent of Windows Vista on home systems are infected with malware, according to PC Tools, which claims the figure is so high because UAC is very annoying and users are disabling the security feature.

  • Symantec's PC Tools buy worth $300m?

    An Australian newspaper has placed the value of global security vendor Symantec's purchase last week of Sydney-based rival PC Tools at AU$300 million.

  • Signature-based antivirus is dead: Get over it

    A hacking competition will attempt to prove that signature-based antivirus is dead but security vendors say, apart from signatures, antivirus is alive and well.

  • Has Windows Vista's UAC feature failed Microsoft?

    Experts agree that Microsoft's Windows Vista is relatively well-protected but its security features such as User Account Control (UAC) have been highlighted by security experts as one reason why the operating system is far less popular than its predecessor, Windows XP.

Create an e-mail alert for "pc"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
pc


Frequency: *
Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Alex Serpo Is green IT a marketing fad?
    It seems that green IT has dropped off the radar, with other technology issues moving to the fore. But was green IT ever a real technology movement, or was it just a marketing fad?
  • Array Gutless studios have the wrong target
    I have one word for the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT). Gutless.
  • Array NBN needs workers on board
    Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured