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Vista security under scrutiny, again
News Of the infections, 74 per cent were adware, while 17 per cent were Trojan infections. Simon Clausen, chief executive of PC Tools, said: "Online threats, such as Trojans, worms and spyware, have the potential to seriously impact consumer privacy and... [21 May 2008]
Symantec Antispyware Solutions
White Paper And while viruses and fast-spreading worms continue to pose a significant threat, the risks to desktop and client systems from spyware and adware have steadily increased, becoming a major challenge for IT security managers. [11 Apr 2008]
Maximizing security and performance for web browsing: the challenge for business
White Paper Spyware, viruses, worms, Trojans, adware, and other unwanted or unauthorized applications are not just an email problem. They also infiltrate networks via web browsing. This paper highlights the threats posed to organizations by malicious or... [24 Feb 2008]
Webcast: Does Your Anti-virus REALLY Protect You Against Spyware?
White Paper So it stands to reason that anti-virus tools that were designed first and foremost to scan for viruses and worms won't be as effective at detecting adware and spyware. While most enterprise anti-virus software includes at least some protection... [12 Dec 2007]
Maximizing security and performance for web browsing: the challenge for business
White Paper Spyware, viruses, worms, Trojans, adware, and other unwanted or unauthorized applications are not just an email problem. They also infiltrate networks via web browsing. This paper highlights the threats posed to organizations by malicious or... [06 Dec 2007]
Maximizing security and performance for web browsing: the challenge for business
White Paper Spyware, viruses, worms, Trojans, adware, and other unwanted or unauthorized applications are not just an email problem. They also infiltrate networks via web browsing. This paper highlights the threats posed to organizations by malicious or... [06 Dec 2007]
Spyware/Adware - The Risks
White Paper This paper attempts to describe what adware and spyware are, what effects they can have on a system and what risks are associated with them. Spyware and Adware (S&A) are much more recent and although some users will have experienced the effects... [06 Jul 2007]
Automating Malware Detection by Inferring Intent
White Paper An increasing variety of malware like worms, spyware and adware threatens both personal and business computing. Since there is no single panacea that could be used to detect all malware in every environment, the paper focus on one important... [31 May 2007]
Malware in Popular Networks
White Paper Quite often today adware and spyware is disseminated the same way. Over the past few years malware writers apparently shifted their efforts from creating viruses and worms 'for fun', from cybervandalism, to creating backdoors, remotely-controlled... [19 Apr 2006]
Design and Implementation of an Extrusion-Based Break-In Detector for Personal Computers
White Paper An increasing variety of malware, such as worms, spyware and adware, threatens both personal and business computing. Thus BINDER can detect a large class of unknown malware such as worms, spyware and adware without requiring signatures. [14 Apr 2006]
BINDER: An Extrusion-Based Break-In Detector for Personal Computers
White Paper This paper tackles the problem of automated detection of break-ins of new unknown threats such as worms, spyware and adware on personal computers. It proposes Break-IN DE-tectoR (BINDER), a host-based system that detects break-ins by capturing... [14 Apr 2006]
Protect Desktop and Servers With Cisco and Trend Micro Endpoint Security Solutions
White Paper Many spyware or adware programs install other programs, increasing the risk that "zombie" or "Trojan horse" programs can infiltrate and infect endpoints. Worms and viruses are not the only attacks that threaten endpoints. [14 Apr 2006]
Protecting HTTP Traffic: Why Web Filtering Should Be Your First Line of Defense
White Paper HTTP threats that need to be protected against include threats revolving around messaging, email, P2P fileshare, spyware, adware, hijackers, cookies, DRM, malware, phishing, spam, worms, and employee Web surfing. [14 Apr 2006]
Anti-spyware group agrees detection guidelines
News Spyware and adware have become widely despised for their sneaky distribution tactics, unauthorised data gathering and tying-up of computer processing power. Although adware makers say there are legitimate uses for their programs, an entire anti... [13 Jan 2006]
Threat Chaos: Making Sense of the Online Threat Landscape
White Paper Why is there a constant barrage of new viruses, worms, spyware, adware, hacker attacks and other potentially unwanted programs? Why is there so much confusion over naming these different forms of installation? [30 Nov 2005]
