Market Wire - CounterSpy offers the industry’s first “hybrid” antispyware scanning engine that provides unparalleled malware detection, remediation, and real-time protection for today’s evolving blended threat landscape. CounterSpy delivers several revolutionary

Is Google Entering the Security Arena?
PC Magazine - Google’s kept it mum, but it turns out that a year ago it launched an anti-malware team devoted to protecting its users from drive-by downloads. On May 21, the search giant’s Anti-Malware Team surfaced publicly, posting its first-ever blog in what

Google: Malware Runs Rampant on the Web
NewsFactor Network - In its new report on Web-based malware, Google said that some of the most common malware sites were those that contained advertising, and that average computer users have no way to protect against these malicious threats. The Google report on malware

Strange spoofing technique evades anti-phishing filters
The Register - Hall said he’s used Norton and AdAware to scan his machine and neither program has turned up any malware. He doubts his DNS has been hijacked because the problem only occurs when he uses IE. He can log in just fine using Firefox. Hall is by no means

Microsoft Office rival is a virus target
Network World Fusion - Malware developers have created a proof-of-concept virus, called BadBunny, that makes use of OpenOffice macros. (OpenOffice is an open source rival to Microsoft Office.) Read more. This isn’t the first proof-of-concept virus to attack macros in

Rising threat to Internet security
Hindu - information), `spamming’ (sending bulk junk mail) and the control of `bots’ (short for robot programmes) all cooperated in deadly deals to attack thousands of unknowing victims whose computers were used as launching pads to propagate more `malware

Flawed Symantec update crippled Chinese PCs
ZDNet - According to Symantec, the problem was caused when Symantec made a change to the automated process used by the company’s security response team to detect malware. Symantec said the false detection was immediately removed from the virus signature

Kaspersky, NOD32, Symantec, Going Down!
Softpedia - The study was meant to test the anti-malware functions of 29 security products and require them to scan 606.901 infected files. As PC Magazine mentioned, the main goal was to analyze only the detection functions, not the cleaning ones, because most

The Top 100 CIOs, Part 4
Baseline - Microsoft introduced the first version of its Forefront Security tools for its newly released Exchange Server 2007 software on Dec. 8, saying the integrated systems defenses will help companies ward off malware programs and spam. Learn More at Server

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