Patches and a free anti-virus scanner for the top vulnerabilities can be found at the SaNS website http://www.sans.org/top20.htm. Bind Weaknesses The FBI has teamed up with virus specialists the Sans Institute to produce a list of the top 20...
Anti-virus vendors are doing very nicely on the back of ever-increasing numbers of viruses. Things are also looking good for internet-based anti-virus software maker McAfee. For the latest virus news,
Symantec has unveiled a hybrid software product which is designed to protect companies against various simultaneous threats. The product, called Symantec Client Security, features firewall, anti-virus and intrusion detection system (IDS) software...
Is it true, as some have suggested, that the anti-virus software companies actually write most of the viruses in order to promote business? For past Devil's Advocate columns see the links below, or type 'Devil' into our search engine.
But as a more level-headed security type, Simon Perry at Computer Associates, advised us: "If you have in place security to protect you from hackers, virus writers, script kiddies and the very real threats which exist you will, by default, be...
An unpatched Symantec scanner checking incoming email or the web pages that users browse would run the program instead of catching the virus. The flaw highlights the danger of weaknesses in the security software that acts as a gateway between the...