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Photos: A day in the life of a virus hunter
Photo Symantec threat researcher Candid Wüest's job is to rip apart the malware that the company discovers each day, look into its guts and pass on its telltale signatures to protect machines worldwide. Wüest and his team have... [09 Oct 2008]
Data Mining Methods for Detection of New Malicious Executables
White Paper Current anti-virus systems attempt to detect these new malicious programs with heuristics generated by hand. A serious security threat is malicious executables, especially new, unseen... [01 Oct 2008]
Take the Sophos Threat Detection Test: Is your current anti-virus catching everything it should?
White Paper The test can be run without uninstalling or deactivating your current anti-virus software. Use the Sophos Threat Detection Test to quickly perform a scan and find any viruses, spyware,... [29 Sep 2008]
The Threat of Lifestyle Computing in the Enterprise: Creating Clear Delineation Between Personal Devices & Corporate IT Assets
White Paper To guard against external threats, firms have invested huge sums in security technologies such as firewalls, anti-virus, content filtering solutions and intrusion detection. Companies need to have a... [03 Jul 2008]
Is Virus Writing Really that Bad?
White Paper In a world in which some anti-virus companies regularly overstate the risks posed by individual viruses in order to hype up the threat, it can be hard to judge the seriousness of the... [03 Jul 2008]
Threat Management in the Large-Scale Distributed Environment
White Paper Fortifying our anti-virus defences in the corporate environment was a deadly serious pursuit for all of us. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of how Prudential Insurance USA upgraded... [03 Jul 2008]
Banque Misr Safeguards Profitability and Reputation With Improved Threat Management
White Paper Banque deployed CA for its solution, using CA Anti-Virus, the bank can ensure that it is protected against worms, Trojans, viruses and malicious mobile code. Banque Misr provides corporate, retail and... [12 Jun 2008]
Avfs: An On-Access Anti-Virus File System
White Paper A true on-access anti-virus file system is developed called as Avfs that incrementally scans les and prevents infected data from being committed to disk. Viruses and other malicious programs are an... [23 Apr 2008]
Glasgow: Crackdown on software piracy hotspot
News The businesses, ranging from media companies to architects, face the threat of costly legal action and having to buy licensed software if they fail to convince the BSA they are operating legally. Hundreds of businesses... [07 Feb 2008]
Audiocast: Detect and Block Zero-Day E-Mail Threats
White Paper Unfortunately, by the time most anti-virus providers can react with a signature update for a rapidly propagating virus or worm (i.e.a "zero-day threat"), the damage is... [13 Dec 2007]
Data leakage: The stealth threat to business
White Paper But implementing firewalls and putting anti-virus and anti-spam software at the gateway have failed to deal with a threat that has stealthily been growing in importance... [13 Dec 2007]
Malicious Software Defense: Have we moved beyond the need for anti-virus and spyware protection software?
White Paper In fact, using anti-virus software was the first method enlisted to stop malicious code from infecting and propagating between these systems. The purpose of this paper is to help individuals understand... [29 Nov 2007]
Pump-and-dump MP3 email spam warning
News But Vella doesn't expect this type of spam to become a major threat. The voice is heavily distorted to avoid detection by signature-based anti-spam security. V is for Virus variants... [19 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...
Comment Generalizing about the world malware threat by asking silicon.com readers when they last had a virus is like trying to get a handle on Labour's electoral chances with a straw poll at an Eton parents'... [04 Oct 2007]
Protect Your Windows PC - Essential Preventative Maintenance Spyware (Adware and Popups)
White Paper Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not yet cover and often gets installed without you realizing by installing shareware programs or... [02 Aug 2007]
