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whitepaper Worse, scanning on close may detect a virus after it had already been written to stable storage, opening a window for the virus to spread before detection. A true on-access anti-virus file system is developed called as Avfs that incrementally scans...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper Are there properties of networks that affect the spread of anti-virus countermeasures? It simulates the spread of countermeasures based on the idea that computer viruses and countermeasures spread through two separate complex networks - the virus...
[24 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Anti-virus technology fails to prevent computers from virus infections. Because viruses spread, hackers find it easier to compromise business computers, identity theft is better enabled and computer fraud is easier to perpetrate.
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper While most anti-virus software is capable of detecting and removing common viruses, it is often unused or not kept up to date; leading to the spread of viruses. Anti-virus software is designed to detect and remove computer viruses.
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Traditional anti-virus programs rely on signatures created by the anti-virus vendor, but this process takes time. New, rapidly deploying threats that spread around the world in just minutes mean that simply deploying a signature-based solution is...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Adware, its close relation spyware, and use of P2P file sharing in office hours are insidious and invidious threats that frequently evade both firewalls and anti-virus defenses - but despite the figures, many companies still do not understand the...
[10 Apr 2008]
News The MBR rootkit does not appear as a single file, which means the code can be spread across different sectors of a disk and therefore cannot be deleted as a usual file, according to research by GMER - a company that produces software that detects...
[10 Jan 2008]
whitepaper Today’s polymorphic virus attacks typically spread around the world in a matter of minutes, with e-mail being the most popular vehicle for delivering their destructive payloads. Unfortunately, by the time most anti-virus providers can react with a...
[12 Dec 2007]
whitepaper Most anti-virus products are extremely effective at stopping a virus—once they have created the requisite signature. Join Richi Jennings of Ferris Research, Curtis Tirrel of Avinti, and Sushant Rao of MailFrontier for this webcast, hosted by...
[12 Dec 2007]
whitepaper When the worst happens, one must make sure that the virus doesn't spread to other computers on the network or damage the files. It seems every other day a new virus or worm comes out, and anti-virus vendors must quickly update their signatures to...
[17 Oct 2007]
News Postini said two variations of the Storm Worm virus, which originally spread across the internet in January, have quickly driven global virus levels 60 times higher than their daily average. According to warning notices from Postini - as well as...
[16 Apr 2007]
whitepaper Traditional anti-virus programs rely on signatures created by the anti-virus vendor, but this process takes time. New, rapidly deploying threats that spread around the world in just minutes mean that simply deploying a signature-based solution is...
[13 Mar 2007]
whitepaper The ability to access the Internet and conduct business communications at high-speed over broadband links is negatively impacted by the steady rise of malicious software that is able to spread swiftly and with ease across Internet connected...
[07 Mar 2007]
News The Trojan, named 'Storm Worm' by antivirus vendor F-Secure, first started to spread last Friday as extreme storms engulfed Europe. None of the anti-malware companies interviewed said they knew who was responsible for the attacks, or where they had...
[23 Jan 2007]
whitepaper After dismissing anti-virus software solutions because of their ineffectiveness against spyware and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, HIDOE assessed Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) from McAfee, Juniper Networks and TippingPoint, a division of 3Com.
[20 Oct 2006]
whitepaper Despite concentrated investment in anti-virus technology, viruses continue to be a significant problem. The main reason for this is that they now spread in a very short time, substantially less than that required for the corresponding filters to be...
[16 Jun 2006]
News When the corrupt WMF files finally came to the attention of anti-spyware experts, they were traced back to websites known to spread advertising software surreptitiously to computers. Some of the more unscrupulous among them are in the business of...
[03 Feb 2006]
Round-Up The first mobile phone virus, Cabir, has spread to more than 20 countries, ranging from the United States to Japan and from Finland to South Africa, using only Bluetooth. The next time you leave the office after a hard day updating your anti-virus...
[12 Aug 2005]
News Romanian security firm BitDefender has revealed that after releasing signatures to protect its customers from a virus that deleted files from their computers containing gypsy music, it was inundated with letters of complaint from customers who...
[13 Jun 2005]
News Australian researchers are currently working with Microsoft's research arm on using anti-spam techniques including data-mining and machine-learning to help identify the genetic patterns that underpin the HIV virus.
[02 Mar 2005]
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