Monday, May 12th, 2008
ZoneAlarm ForceField provides a protective layer around your browser, shielding you from drive-by downloads, browser exploits, phishing attempts, spyware and keyloggers. So your passwords, your confidential information, and your financial data remain protected.
While traditional security, such as firewalls, antivirus, and security suites, protects your PC, ZoneAlarm ForceField protects your browser ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Google's new Web Security for Enterprise service enables companies in the US and Europe to safeguard their internet traffic with protection against viruses and spyware and malicious URLs. According to Google the system "powered by Postini, stops web-borne spyware and viruses before they infiltrate your network and compromise or disable ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's chip, undetected by today's anti-virus products.
Called a System Management Mode (SMM) rootkit, the software runs in a protected part of a computer's memory that can be locked and rendered ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Microsoft's Vista operating system is more susceptible to malware than Windows 2000, and though it's 37% more secure than Windows XP, it's still too vulnerable.That's the contention of security vendor PC Tools, which has a financial interest in the vulnerability of Microsoft's software.
"Ironically, the new operating system has been hailed ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plugin that has been downloaded thousands of times over the past three months.
Because of a virus infection, the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 was polluted with adware, Mozilla security chief Window Snyder said in a blog ...
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