A Dutch company has forced Microsoft to pay damages after the software giant wrongly branded its homepage as a browser hijacker. Ilse Media, a Dutch web firm and owner of the Netherlands' most popular portal Startpagina.nl, found that users could...
There is now sufficient free or cheap anti-intrusion software (anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewalls), and safer browsers than IE, that it can only be a lack of education that allows malware to propagate.
The basic package will include antivirus, anti-spyware, and anti-rootkit protection. Barclays first endorsed F-Secure products in January, with the launch of a 30-day trial of F-Secure Internet Security and the option to purchase the product on the...
Lloyds TSB is offering to help protect its online banking customers from viruses and spyware with a free PC security check. Customers can then download the security software on a free 30-day trial basis and buy it with a 20 per cent discount voucher.
Michael Bufalino, IT director Sheppard Robson, said: "Microsoft's acquisition of Giant and the beta trial they are running for the next few months gives companies an opportunity to address and perhaps quantify the spyware issue.
Anti-virus vendors are not doing enough to protect their customers from malicious worms and viruses, according to software giant Computer Associates (CA). He said pure-play anti-virus vendors aren't up to the job and criticised them for their one...