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News Research out this week from antivirus giant Symantec suggests users are wising up to a growing threat of mobile phone viruses. Symantec claims 73 per cent of smart phone users are aware of viruses and attacks aimed at their handsets and while that...
[05 May 2005]
News Michael Nowak, project manager at Deutsche Post, said in a statement: "We consider good, fast support to be indispensable where viruses are concerned. Security specialist, Symantec, has won a contract to supply the German post service with its...
[19 Jan 2000]
News So far this year, 31 viruses have been classed as a medium risk or higher, compared to 20 in the whole of 2003. The main factor behind this rise is the battle between the authors of the Bagle and Netsky viruses, who each launched a volley of...
[27 Jul 2004]
News One customer, whose details have been withheld, said: "I appreciate your rapid reaction when new viruses are released. Nevertheless, when socially useful viruses are released, I think you could wait at least one day.
[13 Jun 2005]
News Magnus Olssen, senior engineer at Ericsson told silicon.com: "Handsets with downloading facilities are open for viruses if the gateway of an operator is not accurately protected. Next generation Internet phones are susceptible to potentially...
[12 Jun 2000]
whitepaper With the rise in spam and e-mail viruses, Perot sought an effective way to safeguard its own - and its customers' - messaging systems. Perot turned to Microsoft Antigen for Exchange for assistance in protecting company e-mail against viruses, worms...
[07 Nov 2006]
whitepaper UH PMO began looking for a reliable e-mail solution that would provide secure remote access, as well as protection against viruses and hackers. The Utility Helicopters Project Management Office (UH PMO) procures and sustains helicopters for the...
[26 Apr 2006]
whitepaper Although computer viruses cause tremendous economic loss, defence mechanisms fail to adapt to their rapid evolution. Previous immunization strategies have been characterized as being static and centralized, which has made virus containment...
[14 Jun 2006]
whitepaper Viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spywares have been effective for quite sometime in the domain of digital computers. One should be prepared to fight against viruses in the cellular networks. To stop virus attacks, organizations frame up different...
[24 May 2006]
whitepaper However, until recently, these techniques were not commonplace in computer viruses. This paper will not only cover such techniques as buffer overflows and input validation exploits, but also how computer viruses are using them to their advantage.
[01 May 2004]
whitepaper They got a bonus when the package started stopping viruses with certain file extensions that they were able to customize for them. La Plata County Government was at their wits end, literally with all the spam that they were receiving.
[03 Jun 2004]
whitepaper While a virtual private network (VPN) can protect the privacy of your data, it can't protect your network from viruses, spyware, or other malicious programs that may be lurking on the remote computers that connect to it.
[21 Sep 2005]
News According to Trend Micro statistics, the NetSky series has been listed among the top ten viruses since February, accounting for over half of the top ten viruses between April and July. The production of new viruses was concentrated in the first ten...
[07 Sep 2004]
whitepaper Singlefin is a leading provider of email protection services, offering the customers state of the art services that block Spam and viruses and protect an organization's entire email infrastructure. This whitepaper focuses on the joint solution...
[24 Apr 2004]
News The WebImmune service allows users to submit suspect viruses and malicious code directly to McAfee's AVERT virus centre over the web. The company promises to respond with a fix within 90 seconds if the virus is known - or within six hours if...
[21 Sep 2000]
News The way viruses spread on the internet has been helping ecologists work out how pests are spreading in the real world. According to the two ecologists' theory, the lakes are akin to interconnected nodes in a network, with some open to infection by...
[02 Mar 2005]
whitepaper They may sound like the stuff of fiction, but programs called "spyware" or "adware", as well as viruses, worms, and trojans may be doing bad things to your computer (and to you) without your knowledge.
[15 Dec 2004]
News A 17-year old female hacker has written one of the first ever viruses to attack Microsoft's .Net platform, to prove that women can code too. The Sharpei mass-mailer worm is rated by Symantec a "low" threat but does represent the first malware to be...
[04 Mar 2002]
News The Kakworm virus that exploits a fault in the MS Outlook Express program, and Hybris viruses, another that spreads over email, were second (14 per cent of reported infections) and third (12.6 per cent) respectively.
[02 May 2001]
whitepaper This is often a very useful feature; but it also makes it easier to create viruses and Trojans that run in the background. Most computers are capable of running a large number of programs simultaneously.
[01 Nov 2004]
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