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Topic: Virus

Virus News

08 October 2008

Symantec buys MessageLabs for £390 million

By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service

Symantec will pay $695 million (£390 million) for MessageLabs, a security vendor that offers a hosted spam and web traffic filtering service. Read more...

Virus Blog Entries

13 August 2008

The Race to Zero tells us, er, what?

By John E. Dunn

The latest Defcon-hosted Race to Zero malware contest turned out to be a headline-grabbing exercise that told us little we didn’t already know about the limitations of anti-malware scanners. Read more...

Virus Insight

20 July 2008

Spotting weak security staff

By Lisa Vaas, Computerworld (US)

Are your security staffers are trustworthy? Competent? Knowledgeable? Ask a security professional for horror stories and you might think again. Read more...

Virus Briefings

16 May 2008

Problems with monitoring virtual infrastructure

By Edward L. Haletky, CIO.com

Questions about how to monitor VMware ESX installations are common on community forums, but the term "monitoring" covers so much ground and could involve so many tools that the question requires a lot of refinement. Read more...

Virus Interviews

23 June 2008

How a laptop nearly ruined one man's life

By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service

When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued Michael Fiola a Dell Latitude in November 2006, it set off a chain of events that would cost him his job, his friends and about a year of his life, as he fought criminal charges that he had downloaded child pornography on to the laptop. Read more...

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Virus Whitepapers

17 March 2008

Executive Guide to Internal Data Theft

By Marshal

Despite more security issues than ever all competing for organizations' attention, the seemingly unstoppable rise in the use of portable storage devices in the workplace is a risk that needs urgent action. This C-Level guide highlights the main risk to the organization and what can be done to combat internal data theft.

Read more...

Virus Product Reviews

03 June 2008

Aagon Client Management Platform

By David Cartwright, Techworld

  • List price: Base version is free; Pro version from around £14/user; SWdetective from £6/user; AVdetective from £5/user
  • Pros: Sensible structure of base system plus modules;
    Excellent GUI.
  • Cons: The English translations need work;
    No support for AVG anti-virus. Read more...

Virus How-Tos

13 August 2008

Ten tips for ultra-safe browsing

By Erik Larkin, PC World (US)

In the world of comic books, every bad guy is an evil genius. On the web, hackers, spammers, and phishers may be evil, but they're not required to be geniuses. Here are ten ways to defend yourself against them, genius or not. Read more...

Virus Case Studies

16 April 2008

University gives top marks to virtual cell Wi-Fi

By Bryan Betts, Techworld

When the University of Birmingham upgraded its core network a few years ago, it set in course a train of events that would lead to it becoming one of the UK's largest - and yet secure - campus wireless LANs. Read more...

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