Antivirus Software
Websense CEO Gene Hodges on attack vectors, the future of Antivirus and the malware arms race      
Gene Hodges, CEO of Websense, has had a busy year. The company has integrated the acquisition of SurfControl, built out its security suite and delivered strong financial results.
 
Friday Rant - When antivirus software goes bad      
I've long held the belief that antivirus software can be almost as bad as the malware it's trying to protect you from. In fact, I believe that it's a lot worse.
 
Desktop Security Suites for Small Businesses      
Desktop security suites were developed to help keep the computers up and working, to keep company information from going out to the Internet where it can be improperly used for marketing, spam, or identity theft, and to protect the company from liability resulting from sending customer data inappropriately, or having internal systems used to attack other businesses.
 
Proof that Antivirus software makes your PC crawl      
A few months ago I declared: "It's time to toss out your (desktop) antivirus software!" As far as I was concerned, running desktop antivirus software was a liability in and of itself because "Running antivirus on a personal computer is like having the bomb squad inspect a suspicious package inside the house right next to you." The effectiveness of antivirus software is also questionable since it won't work at all for zero-day exploits that haven't been updated yet. Well now there seems to be another good reason to toss out that antivirus software.
 
Antivirus Software Company Invests in the Future With 64-Bit Development      
Kaspersky Lab provides secure content management solutions and services to large, midsize, and small companies as well as home users.
 
It's time to toss out your antivirus software      
There's been plenty of debate lately that maybe with the release of Windows Vista, we might be able to get away with not using antivirus on our computers.Well I'm about to make an even bolder assertion, that running antivirus or even additional third party security software such as firewalls on your computer makes you even less safe! Now before you start the flaming, hear me out first.
 
How to Properly Configure File System Antivirus Software on Exchange Server      
The paper discusses a situation where one have an Exchange server with file system antivirus software and Exchange server antivirus software installed.
 
Surprise! Most consumers don't know the difference between a firewall and antivirus software      
As if you couldn't figure this out on your own, the vast majority of consumers are ignorant about how to keep their computers secure. A study funded by America Online and the National Cyber Security Alliance sent technicians to 329 homes to inspect computers, and discovered, for example, that nearly 90 percent of the users had no inkling that their systems were plagued by spyware.
 
30.67% of companies had virus infections, 90% ran antivirus software      
The survey polled 300 randomly selected companies and found that 92 (30.67%) had had major virus incidents in 2003, up from 80 (26.67%) in the year before.
 
Antivirus software to grow to $4.4B in 2007      
The worldwide antivirus software market proved to be a primary area for security spending in 2002, achieving $2.2 billion in revenues and representing an impressive 31% increase over 2001. IDC believes growth will continue over the next five years, reaching $4.4 billion in 2007, as protection against virus and worm attacks remains a top priority for corporations and greater awareness fuels consumer spending.
 
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