Once known mostly for its Norton AntiVirus tools, Symantec is extending its product lines to include security and anti-spam software, services and hardware. Others set up spam and virus filters in gateway servers, which are proxies set up between...
Nachenberg said that he and his colleagues at Symantec have been working on the antivirus technology since the mid-1990s. Traditional antivirus software works by scanning the regions of a particular file that are most likely to contain a virus...
Gartner analyst Peter Firstbrook said: "I don't think that Microsoft is going to take market share away from [security providers such as Symantec], but instead it's more likely [Microsoft] will be able to attract a lot of people who haven't had...
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...
Nash said: "To help our customers combat the evolving threats and to have those rights protected, we are taking a holistic approach to security that includes developing new technology, partnering with the industry and keeping customers as educated...
A is for Antivirus Forrester senior analyst Bill Nagel, speaking at the Forrester IT Forum in Edinburgh this week, added: "Not all information needs to be protected. Blogs, social networking tools and other web 2.0 technologies are another risk for...