Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Microsoft Security Essentials, the company's new anti-malware software, will be available Tuesday, according Bob Muglia, the president of Microsoft's server and tools division.
The release of the software, which was code-named Morro, has been rumored for days, but Muglia on Monday confirmed that the free software would be available for download ...
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
To combat worms, Trojans and other malware, a team of security researchers wants to use ants.
Not the actual live insects, of course, but computer programs modelled to act like ants in the way they roam a network and search for anomalies. "Ants aren't intelligent," says Glenn Fink, a senior research ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
F-Secure Health Check checks your computer for potentially unsafe software and, by suggesting solutions, helps you to resolve the situation before it turns into a problem. What security measures you take, is entirely up to you.
F-Secure Health Check does not check your computer for Viruses, Trojan Horses, Backdoors, Bots, Rootkits ...
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
Google's free online newsgroup Google Groups hosts plenty of harmless user-generated content. But like any service that allows users to post information, it also turns out to be useful for "misuser-generated content."A Symantec security researcher has found that Trojan malware is using Google Groups to fetch commands for directing its ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Conventional wisdom is that Web wanderers are safe as long as they avoid sites that serve up pornography, stock tips, games and the like. But according to recently gathered research from Boston-based IT security and control firm Sophos, sites we take for granted are not as secure as they appear.Among ...
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