Antivirus Articles
Microsoft business client security due next month      
The business client security product Microsoft has been working on since 2003 will finally make its debut in May, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday.
 
Virus Stoppers      
Trojan horses. Rootkits. Botnets. Keyloggers. These terms might not mean much to the average computer user, but to the average computer they're the equivalent of the bird flu and Ebola viruses. With money serving as the main motive, tech crooks have turned these one-time playthings of maladjusted geeks into a serious business.
 
Researcher: Third-party AntiVirus products outperform OneCare      
Nearly a year after Microsoft Corp. introduced Windows Live OneCare, the company's first foray into the security market is still getting low marks from analysts and users.
 
Dump Pricey Antivirus for a Freebie      
Fed up with bloated commercial antivirus programs? Sick of being nickel-and-dimed for yearly renewals for the likes of Symantec's Norton AntiVirus and McAfee's VirusScan Plus? Yank these behemoths out by their roots and replace them with a super-duper freebie.
 
CA Antivirus Flagged Windows Component as Virus      
CA Inc. caused some headaches this week after its antivirus software inadvertently flagged part of the Windows OS as malware.
 
Underground tools foil generic virus detection      
The effectiveness of malicious code is largely determined by whether or not it's detected by anti-virus scanners. By replicating the scans of leading security products using test tools located on underground forums and web pages, miscreants gain the chance to fine-tune their creations to make sure they aren't picked up by anti-virus heuristic (generic) detection.
 
Malware writers think global, act local      
Online miscreants are beefing up their cultural outreach skills.
 
Growing virus production taxes security firms      
The volume - if not the variety - of malware samples has undergone almost exponential growth over the last three years.
 
Tennis sites hit by drive-by download attacks      
Tennis sites hit by drive-by download attacks
 
Mass SQL injection hits English language websites      
Thousands of websites in China have been booby trapped with code written to download Trojan software onto visitors who run vulnerable Windows PCs.
 
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