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Pest Prevention ...

whitepaper But to prevent a pest, we must know how pests get into a computer, and what tactics are effective in preventing their introduction. An ounce of prevention is probably worth 16 ounces of cure. The facts in the matter may surprise you.

Tags: security management, pests, machine, matter

[10 Apr 2008]

Legal Liability: The Computer Pest Imperative ...

whitepaper Does your company have customers or employees in California? Chances are you do. And if so, the private data you hold on them is about to become more valuable and your incentive to safeguard that data has risen.

Tags: security standards, california, compromised, person

[10 Apr 2008]

About the Threat of Pests ...

whitepaper Each pest poses a somewhat different threat than others. With so many pests, it is easiest to begin by trying to simplify the problem into pest categories and threat categories. This paper describes Threat Categories, Pest Categories, and Threat...

Tags: security management, threat, categories, definition

[10 Apr 2008]

Defending IT Infrastructure: What Your Security Policy Should Say About Computer Pests ...

whitepaper Good pest control software will search for a wide range of malicious non-viral software and help create evidence documenting the effectiveness of your computer pest management program. Combating computer pests, which can open back doors into...

Tags: security management, pests, integrity, program

[10 Apr 2008]

Testing Detection and Removal ...

whitepaper The surge in pests has been accompanied by a surge in user need for good anti-pest products, and thus a surge in anti pest products. The pest problem thus brings about a user problem: which product to choose, and is any of them good enough?

Tags: anti-hacking, anti, surge, pest

[10 Apr 2008]

The Intermec System Helps Aaron Pest Control Improve Data Collection

whitepaper The client is Aaron Pest Control. The Challenge was to improve the accuracy and efficiency of data collection for pest control and lawn care technicians. A systems solution was designed with Intermec mobile computers that allowed technicians to...

Tags: printers - plotters, efficiency, accuracy, technicians

[11 Feb 2008]

Suffolk Councils join up IT to save costs

Case Study The district councils in the county are responsible for environmental health, leisure, housing, waste collection, pest control and crematoria. Suffolk County Council and Mid Suffolk District Council have merged IT departments in a wider initiative...

Tags: shared services, bpo, bt, saving

[05 Feb 2008]

Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam

Comment Even the capture of long-time US spam pest Robert Solway was a Pyrrhic victory with no effect on spam volumes whatsoever. Attempts by governments and police to stop spam at its source have proved futile.

Tags: spam, filtering, botnets, security

[10 Dec 2007]

Pest Control: Email, Worms, and Instant Messaging

whitepaper Pest writers take advantage of the best instincts: the desire to communicate with others. When it comes to the computer, talk is not only cheap, it's downright dangerous. These days, most pests target the user via email, and increasingly via...

Tags: network security, spread, communicate, email

[17 Oct 2007]

Malicious code getting harder to spot

News The websites, the bulk of which are compromised sites, often drop a Trojan horse or other pest onto a PC through a security hole in the web browser. Cyber crooks who rig websites to break into PCs are getting better at hiding their malicious code...

Tags: trojan, malicious, cyber crook

[19 Apr 2007]

Chat worm warning for Skype users

News A new instant-messaging pest that spreads using the chat feature in Skype has surfaced, according to a warning by security company F-Secure. The worm, dubbed Pykse.A, is similar to threats that affect IM applications.

Tags: worm, skype

[17 Apr 2007]

Middleton Lawn & Pest Control Uses HP Mobile Solutions to Cut Costs, Improve Service

whitepaper With more than 300 employees operating out of 20 different branch offices across Florida, Middleton Lawn & Pest Control faces a major challenge keeping track of its 60,000 customers. The solution was HP iPAQ Pocket PC running SmartBiz Mobile, a...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, offices, pocket pc, pest

[16 Apr 2007]

Avaya Case Study: ABC Pest, Pool and Lawn Services

whitepaper Based in Houston, Texas, ABC Pest, Pool and Lawn Services (ABC) has been providing a wide range of environmentally responsible, reliable and superior services to its customers across Texas since 1949.

Tags: voip - ip telephony, avaya, avaya ip office, cell

[12 Apr 2007]

Regional Pest Control Company Streamlines Training Through the Course Customization Toolkit

whitepaper Plunkett's Pest Control Inc.headquartered in Fridley, Minn.is a Copesan partner serving eight upper Midwest states. Plunkett's Pest Control delivers new-hire and ongoing pest control training to remote employees located throughout the upper Midwest.

Tags: training and certification, training, midwest, pest

[09 Jun 2006]

The Effect of Spyware on Work Productivity

whitepaper When people are using machines at work to fiddle around on break, or before and after clock time, this is a very easy way to allow a very common pest into the workspace. The pest that the authors are speaking of is Spyware, and it is a very large...

Tags: security management, machines, computers, corporation

[09 Jun 2006]

Trusting Spyware Detection Software: Do They Really Work?

whitepaper In the age of increasing technological advances, spyware is becoming as much of a pest as the telemarketers and junk mail one used to receive and in many cases, still do although not in the same high frequency of the past.

Tags: spyware, detection, spyware, computers

[09 Jun 2006]

Spyware, Adware, Trojans, Viruses: What Is the Difference Between All These Computer Menaces?

whitepaper Many times even the biggest of IT firms have troubles identifying and eliminating a pest from the computer. When the casual web surfer or computer junky finds that the computer is not running the way it should, it should be obvious to them what the...

Tags: spyware, machine, firms, facing

[09 Jun 2006]

Companies Need Multiple Approaches to Defeat Spyware

whitepaper The difference between the companies and the everyday Internet user is the methods the respective sides employ to eliminate the pest. There is nothing worse in the world than Spyware. One could pull the toenails out with pliers, and still enjoy it...

Tags: security management, spyware, programs, methods

[09 Jun 2006]

IM worm installs rogue browser

News The pest also sets the victim's IE homepage to Safety Browser's website and plays looped music that cannot be stopped, FaceTime said. Researchers at FaceTime discovered the pest after it hit on one of their test machines.

Tags: im worm, spyware, yahoo im

[23 May 2006]

Make Internet Explorer as secure as possible with this step-by-step guide

whitepaper This sample chapter, taken from PC Pest Control, discusses the security issues surrounding Internet Explorer and how to lock it down. This sample chapter from the PC Pest Control recommends that you choose a safer Web browser than Microsoft's...

Tags: security management, pc, browser, published

[17 May 2006]

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