As worms and viruses such as SoBig, MSBlast and MyDoom continue to propagate through millions of networks throughout the world, the need for technology to keep those elements off networks has increasingly become important.
The antivirus industry has tried, and failed, previously to agree on common naming for worms and viruses. A desktop antivirus product may display a different name for a fast-spreading worm than the scanner at the email gateway or the intrusion...
As DOS attacks don't directly use email or viruses, they won't be caught by blacklists or signature-based antivirus products. When a malicious writer launches a phishing scam, antivirus companies will write so-called signatures that identify the...
All of the new pests propagate via Bluetooth, the short-range wireless technology used in many smart phones. In October of last year, Nokia signed a deal with Symantec to arm its Series 60 smart phones with the Symantec Mobile Security antivirus...
Antivirus software also works by analysing what apps are trying to do - malicious programs can blow their cover by displaying suspicious patterns of behaviour (such as searching out executable or mail box files in order to propagate) or by...
McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro and numerous others will have antivirus software and other protection tools available when Vista hits the market later this month. To distinguish itself from the pack, Symantec this week announced a new feature for...
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