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Symantec Says Viruses And Worms Are ‘Solved’
It’s official: The problem of worms and viruses is “solved”–at least according to Symantec chairman and CEO John Thompson. The more relevant security threats today are phishing and fraud, as well as organized crime’s interest in stealing and…
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Microsoft to launch IE7 before 27 October
Microsoft plans to launch its Internet Explorer 7 browser “within the next two weeks”, the company said at the Digital Life conference in New York. The software developer previously had said that the application would be available some time in the second half of…
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The future of malware: Trojan horses
Widespread worms, viruses or Trojan horses spammed to millions of mailboxes are typically not a grave concern anymore, security experts said at the Virus Bulletin conference here Thursday. Instead, especially for organizations, targeted Trojan horses have become the nightmare…
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Malware being spammed as PDF from retail stores
Reports surfaced today of spam purporting to be from Dell, Walmart, Circuit City or Sony confirming an order for a Sony Vaio computer with a PDF attachment, but the attachment is, in fact, a very nasty piece of malware named Haxdoor. Text of email: Quote: Subject: Order ID :…
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Vista RC2 window now closed
If you didn’t already download the Windows Vista Release Candidate (RC) 2 bits, you missed your window of opportunity. Microsoft posted the RC2 bits for download on October 6 and made them available to technical beta testers and others who had enrolled previously in the…
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Support ending for Windows XP SP1
Microsoft will end support for Windows XP Service Pack 1 and SP1a on Tuesday, leaving people no option but to upgrade to Service Pack 2 if they wish to continue to receive crucial components, including security software. There’s little reason for anyone to still be…
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Google crawls into source-code search
The company on Thursday launched a Web site, Google Code Search, which the company says will let programmers search billions of lines of code for tips on how to write their own software. The service, conceived by the Google Labs early technology group, will crawl publicly…
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Microsoft’s Software Protection Platform: Protecting Software and Customers from Counterfeiters
PressPass: Please describe the Software Protection Platform in more detail. Hartje: One of the things the Software Protection Platform enables is enhancements to the genuine experience in Windows Vista, thereby differentiating it from the non-genuine experience. Customers that…
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Scientists teleport two different objects
Beaming people in “Star Trek” fashion is still in the realms of science fiction, but physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter bringing quantum communication and computing closer to reality. Until now scientists have teleported similar…
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Symantec: Sour Microsoft grapes or a real beef?
I’ve consciously refrained from weighing in on Symantec’s mounting efforts to fight back against Microsoft with Windows Vista. The reason? I’ve been vacillating. When I see some of Symantec’s Vista complaints, I shout out (in my head, not on the streets of New York City, mind…