The Event Manager consolidates data from Symantec's antivirus and firewall products, as well as other companies' products, and provides a mile-high view of what the network-security systems are encountering.
Twingo's software agent protects companies from this action by fully erasing history files, temporary files, caches, cookies, email file attachments and other downloaded data at the close of an SSL VPN user session.
A malicious Trojan horse program has emerged for Pocket PCs, antivirus companies announced but they characterised the threat as relatively low. The antivirus company said the author was offering to sell the client part of the Trojan to all...
Virus writers have unleashed the first program that infects 64-bit Windows files, antivirus firm Symantec have said. Symantec got a copy of the virus from an antivirus newsgroup the company monitors, Huger said.
Nachenberg said that he and his colleagues at Symantec have been working on the antivirus technology since the mid-1990s. Its researchers use the code to write simple programs for scanning and emulating executable files, and for working with...
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...