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Article | 30/05/2012 Nearly a fifth of U.S. PCs have no virus protection, McAfee finds
The story "Nearly a fifth of U.S. PCs have no virus protection, McAfee finds" posted Wednesday included an inaccurate second headline.
Article | 30/05/2012 Nearly a fifth of U.S. PCs have no virus protection, McAfee finds
A McAfee study of PCs around the world found that 17 percent had no antivirus protection, and the U.S. outpaced the average with 19 percent of PCs unp...
Article | 11/04/2012 Kaspersky launches free Flashback removal tool and website to check for infections
Antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab has launched a free removal tool for the Flashback Mac OS X malware and a website where users can check whether their c...
Article | 1/02/2012 Bitdefender Internet Security 2012
Bitdefender Internet Security 2012 comes in third in our 2012 roundup of security suites. But although it earned the bronze overall, it captured the h...
Article | 19/03/2012 Java-based Web attack installs hard-to-detect malware in RAM
A hard-to-detect piece of malware that doesn't create any files on the affected systems was dropped onto the computers of visitors to popular news sit...
Article | 7/03/2012 Kaspersky to protect virtual machines running on VMware
Kaspersky Lab has launched Security for Virtualization, designed to centralize the protection of virtual machines running on VMware, the company said ...
Article | 24/02/2012 Avast Free Antivirus 7 adds cloud updates, file reputation and remote assistance
Avast Free Antivirus 7 is set to be released on Thursday and will have new features including cloud-based updates, remote assistance and file reputati...
Article | 21/12/2011 Antivirus software sales expected to show strong growth in 2012
The prevalence with which hackers are handing out headaches to IT security pros will have a big upside for vendors in the coming year, according to ne...
Article | 3/11/2011 Facebook easily infiltrated by data-harvesting bots, researchers find
Facebook's fake account detection mechanisms can be defeated 80 percent of the time with the help of automated tools, researchers from the University ...
Article | 13/10/2011 Peer-to-peer update to Zeus Trojan confers resistance to take-downs
The Zeus financial malware has been updated with P-to-P (peer-to-peer) functionality that makes it much more resilient to take-down efforts and gives ...
Article | 12/10/2011 German officials admit to deploying intercept software
Officials in a number of German state governments have owned up to using the Quellen-TKÜ Trojan Horse software in criminal investigations to intercept...
Article | 6/10/2011 Webroot claims the fastest, lightest, most powerful anti-virus software yet with SecureAnywhere
Security and antivirus software vendor Webroot has thrown the proverbial gauntlet down to its competitors with the launch of its new consumer-level pr...
Article | 5/10/2011 Firefox advises users to disable McAfee plugin
It's the last thing McAfee would want users to hear about one of its products, but the Firefox browser is advising users to disable McAfee's ScriptSca...
Article | 30/07/2011 Malwarebytes preps enterprise edition of PC-cleaning software
Malwarebytes this fall expects to release an enterprise-grade anti-malware platform that it says doesn't compete directly with traditional antivirus s...
Article | 16/07/2011 Google building Postini features into Apps
Google has started to move e-mail security features from its Postini service directly into its Google Apps collaboration and communication suite.