Antivirus companies were scrambling on Monday afternoon to learn more about the virus, which started spreading at about noon PST. A lot of the information is encrypted, so we have to decrypt it," said Sharon Ruckman, a senior director of antivirus...
The first reports of Bagle.B started coming in at 4:30 am PST, he added, but by 7 am, the rate at which customers submitted reports started falling off. Network Associates rated the virus a "medium" threat, and rival security company Symantec...
The second medium-level risk could allow a hacker to take over a system by executing Internet Explorer code through a flaw in Outlook 2002. The user has to set Outlook Today as the Outlook home page. If you go to Outlook through your inbox, you are...
Symantec rated the bug a "one," the lowest on its five-point scale. Microsoft is currently not aware of any customers being impacted at this time but will continue to investigate the situation to provide appropriate guidance for customers," the...
Burst is particularly interested in finding out more about Microsoft's OTG File Server Policies and Guidelines, which the filing quotes as saying, in part: "Due to legal issues, mail files [PST files] cannot be stored on any corporate servers that...
All of the security vulnerabilities addressed by Microsoft's first fixes of 2007 relate to how multiple versions of Windows and Office handle specific files. Five affect Excel, three hit Outlook and one impacts the Brazilian Portuguese grammar...