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McAfee has announced that it will integrate some security solutions with Intel-powered laptops and mobile Internet devices. The only condition for the mobile gadgets to be secured by the McAfee technologies is to be based on the Z5XX Intel Atom processor and the open source Linux Moblin software. In the case of porta... |
22 August 2008
06:51 GMT |
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Many parents believe that using the parental control tool found in basically any security solution on the market keeps their children perfectly safe from dangerous or offensive content. The latest Norton Online Living Report shows that children not only don't care too much about the threats, but they also do thi... |
21 August 2008
09:42 GMT |
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Nobody wants to login to their email address and find the inbox chucked full with spam messages, especially since said messages are sent out in order to propagate all sorts of malicious software. Most of the times the goal of the spammer is to infect your machine, turn it into a zombie PC in an ever increasing botnet... |
28 July 2008
10:58 GMT |
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According to a recently released study conducted by McAfee Avert Labs entitled "Does Size Matter? The security challenge of the SMB", most organizations believe that simply because they are not well known enough, they will not be targeted by hacker attacks. Just to put things in perspective, there are about 6.4 milli... |
28 July 2008
04:22 GMT |
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The McAfee team has just recently finished analyzing all the data from the S.P.A.M. (short for Spammed Persistently All Month) and a report has been made available. Entitled "Global S.P.A.M. Diaries", the report includes a detailed and comprehensive presentation of all the McAfee findings. Jeff Green, Senior Vice Pr... |
9 July 2008
10:43 GMT |
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Malware writers turn to all kinds of techniques in order to trick people, infect their computers and reach their goal, no matter if we're talking about stealing some data or just luring them on malicious websites. As part of their latest attempt, attackers who built rogue security applications even implemented l... |
29 May 2008
16:51 GMT |
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Security company McAfee has started a new program through which it invites beta testers around the world to register and try out its new security applications. Obviously, McAfee has a simple goal: to let users help the company develop more powerful security products with less bugs. But what's more important for ... |
29 May 2008
06:22 GMT |
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Hackers and spammers seem to be working around the clock in trying to search for vulnerabilities in various applications. It appears that a recently discovered exploit tries to take advantage of an unpatched Adobe Flash vulnerability. According to a yesterday post on the McAfee Avert Labs, the security company has re... |
28 May 2008
10:35 GMT |
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Brett Oliphant, a security researcher who worked for ScanAlert, has been charged with fraud and may spend several years in prison. Oliphant was the vice president of security services of ScanAlert and joined McAfee once the company was acquired by the Santa Clara-based firm. Brett and his brother Bryan "are accused o... |
20 May 2008
03:30 GMT |
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A few days ago, the Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo rolled out SearchScan, a special search security utility developed with the help of McAfee and supposed to filter the risky websites returned by Yahoo Search. However, it may seem like the warnings provided by SearchScan are not quite correct, as several website owner... |
16 May 2008
05:27 GMT |
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McAfee and Acer have just announced a partnership that will provide the computing company users with a more secure computing experience. Starting with the second quarter of 2008, Acer notebooks and desktop computers will be shipped with McAfee Internet Security Suite with SiteAdvisor. The software bundle comes to fur... |
12 May 2008
10:38 GMT |
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Lots of users have already realized, over the past years, how skillful and dangerous a hacker can prove to be. It seems that almost anything you do on the web can infect your personal computer. Yesterday, security vendor McAfee has reported that a large number of fake MP3 files are spread on peer-to-peer networks. Th... |
7 May 2008
05:59 GMT |
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Security company McAfee has won two important 2008 SC Magazine Europe awards thanks to the advanced features its products integrate. As you know, McAfee is one the most important names on the security market, developing a remarkable number of high-end solutions which are currently installed on millions of computers a... |
25 April 2008
09:25 GMT |
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Security company McAfee announced the availability of Total Protection for Network, a suite of utilities which is supposed to bring another perspective over the networking security, other than the one provided by the applications currently on the market. McAfee Total Protection for Network is currently available in t... |
23 April 2008
17:36 GMT |
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Part of Electronic Arts' power is that it never fails to generate news. It's a very rare day indeed the one when there's nothing on the gaming news radar regarding the gigantic games publisher. Only recently EA has again taken the fight to Take Two in their acquisition war, raised some eyebrows over th... |
28 March 2008
04:10 GMT |
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A 1-year subscription of McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008 is worth approximately $40 for a single machine, and up to $60 for three computers. But at the same time, McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008 is available as a free download. The special offer can be accessed via Natwest, via the banner that advertises Free PC Security offer... |
18 March 2008
09:56 GMT |
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Security company McAfee has warned of a new mass web-based attacks preying on the Windows operating system. The first attack was initially discovered on March 12 and it involved SQL injection. Craig Schmugar, threat research manager, McAfee Avert Labs, revealed that initially McAfee detected in excess of 10,000 compr... |
14 March 2008
14:54 GMT |
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The search for the best antivirus of 2008 has advanced one step further, courtesy of security solution testing lab AV-Test.org. All the best available 2008 security suite editions were thrown against in excess of 1.1 million samples of malicious code on an arena of Windows XP SP2. At this point in time, with XP SP3 j... |
13 March 2008
05:58 GMT |
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A warning was posted today on the McAfee Avert Labs Blog, announcing that a new Windows Mobile trojan was discovered, trojan that disables the Windows Mobile application installation security on Pocket PCs. Named WinCE/InfoJack and discovered in China, the trojan was created by "a specific website" (its name was not... |
26 February 2008
10:46 GMT |
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The Internet really needs a watchdog because the amount of malware heading our way, and by that I mean the inexperienced public, there's no way we could fend all of the attacks on our own, with just some anti-virus, be it upgraded on a regular basis. McAfee and the other security software vendors are going that ... |
26 February 2008
04:57 GMT |
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The help-wanted ads are circulating the underground Internet channels and the desired applicants must be hackers and nothing less. As the web society evolves, so must the attacks and now after all of the major companies opened local branches to deal with the problems that might show up in the course of time (Google, ... |
21 February 2008
11:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is readying a new strategy for Windows update based on a technology which shares the same behavior as self replicating malicious code, more commonly known as a variety of malware dubbed worms. The Redmond company's alternative approach to servicing its Windows platform with updates using the same techn... |
19 February 2008
08:50 GMT |
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McAfee has warned that Windows Live SkyDrive is serving spam. The security company reveals that the fault does not lay with Microsoft's free online hosting service, but with its users. More specifically, malicious users have started abusing SkyDriver, formerly known as Windows Live Folder, in order to send out s... |
11 January 2008
05:42 GMT |
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McAfee managed to cause a serious problem these days as it flagged several legitimate websites as infected. According to several reports, users who installed McAfee's Antivirus were alerted that multiple pages, including Verizon Wireless, Ars Technica, Friendster and ESPN.com, got infected with JS/Exploit-BO, a ... |
3 January 2008
05:34 GMT |
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There are various factors that come into play when security solutions are concerned. Antivirus products come with a variety of facets, from the frequency of virus signatures update to a low rate of false positives, and from performance to keeping a low profile as a background process. Well, one of the aspects involve... |
28 December 2007
10:37 GMT |
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Security company McAfee proudly announces that it has received the Checkmark Premium Anti-Spam Certification, after its antispam technology blocked no less than 98 percent of the spam messages included in the tests. I guess everybody hates spam, as it advertises all kinds of products, such as Viagra, watches, drugs a... |
20 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Let me start with the prizes, because I think they will really catch your attention: a gift card from Amazon or Circuit City, a new PC, a new mobile phone and... a BMW X5 SUV! All of these represent the prizes offered by security vendor McAfee for Triple Play Sweepstakes. Pretty impressive, don't you think? The... |
10 December 2007
10:43 GMT |
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The streets have always represented a great way to advertise your products, because you got your messages read no matter what. People are always there and it's a great opportunity to make yourself heard. This is exactly what McAfee aims to do, by placing some billboards in San Francisco Bay Area and in Dallas. ... |
6 December 2007
05:11 GMT |
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There are a lot of antivirus technologies out there, most of them sustaining that their features are the best on the market and more efficient than the rivals'. Some say Kaspersky is the best, others think McAfee is better, while numerous users choose Norton Antivirus as the leader. A recent study published by s... |
5 December 2007
08:52 GMT |
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Security vendor McAfee has announced a deal with Cox Communications today, which is the third largest US cable television provider, that is meant to protect all the Cox High Speed Internet clients. Obviously, the two companies attempt to reach this goal through McAfee's Security Suite, which will receive a co-br... |
3 December 2007
17:06 GMT |
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The newly released Mac OS X Leopard is now more secure than anytime before, as the famous security vendor, McAfee, rolled out VirusScan for Mac 8.6, the first technology supposed to protect the latest Apple OS. Even if it is always regarded as the safest alternative for Windows (among with the Linux distributions), ... |
3 December 2007
04:23 GMT |
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You might be tempted to believe that Symantec, McAfee, ESET, Kaspersky or Softwin Labs provide the best antiviruses on the market. In fact, it's well known that these solutions have millions of consumers as they offer very powerful antivirus utilities. But (yeah, I know, there's always a 'but'), a... |
30 November 2007
03:05 GMT |
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Due to its ubiquity, the Windows operating system is the most attacked operating system worldwide. This status quo has generated an inherent bad reputation as far as security is concerned, as Windows is under a constant barrage of attacks and far from being bulletproof. Since its introduction in November 2006 for bus... |
27 November 2007
12:32 GMT |
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Earlier this day, it was reported that the government confirmed a major data loss caused by the HM Revenue and Customs, the UK tax department which collects taxes and works with a huge amount of residents details. Obviously, the data leakage brought at least interesting statements of the security vendors which fight... |
21 November 2007
14:56 GMT |
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Windows Vista has had everything but an easy ride since its introduction in November 2006 and in January 2007, but the worst is yet to come. Microsoft's latest Windows client was plagued with a variety of problems from software and hardware incompatibility to poor performance, reliability and support. The Redmon... |
19 November 2007
06:32 GMT |
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Although McAfee is one of the top security companies on the market, the firm struggles to get new technologies which might bring new consumers to their products. Today, McAfee announced that it has reached an agreement to buy ScanAlert Inc. for no less than $51 million and get new solutions designed to protect users ... |
31 October 2007
18:06 GMT |
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Free porn and free security, especially designed for the Windows operating system. If such offerings sound too good to be true, that's because they actually are. Generally speaking, free pornographic content, from JPEG files to full movies, as well as free security solutions, both hosted online or desktop based,... |
18 October 2007
13:31 GMT |
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McAfee are seriously improving the security solutions that they offer. They are now not only releasing new devices to help companies achieve web-safeness, but also, they're acquiring another company to help them build better software. Let me give you more details about this - they've released McAfee® Data L... |
9 October 2007
03:33 GMT |
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With their 2008 range of products, McAfee is going to deliver security solutions to PC, web and mobile users. So, as they call it, this is a triple play protection, spanning PC, web activity and mobile phone in security suites: McAfee® Total Protection™ and McAfee Internet Security Suite.So, what are you going to get... |
2 October 2007
04:15 GMT |
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This September has been a slow and quiet month for Microsoft in terms of the sheer volume of vulnerabilities affecting its product, as well as the security patches it has to issue in order to address the flaws. The Redmond company issued a number of just four security bulletins this month patching Windows, Visual Stu... |
14 September 2007
07:47 GMT |
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Virtualization is the way of the future and many security companies have noticed that, and consequently designed special softwares to protect virtual machines. Yesterday, McAfee had announced that their products can secure virtual environments and also that they are working together with their partners on what they c... |
12 September 2007
09:51 GMT |
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AOL Active Virus Shield is a security tool provided by AOL that offered the users the possibility of installing the famous Kaspersky solution. I talked about this feature using the Past Tense because it seems that AOL quietly replaced the Kaspersky antivirus solution with McAfee Virus Scan. What's most interesti... |
10 September 2007
10:47 GMT |
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Is Windows Vista antivirus a waste of money, effort and time? Are all Windows security solutions for that matter? Well, one security researcher indeed seems to think so. Joanna Rutkowska, CEO of Invisible Things Lab opined that the industry has taken a wrong path investing and building polymorphic virus detection, ad... |
5 September 2007
06:59 GMT |
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Anybody who is anybody in the security industry delivers products superior to Windows Live OneCare from Microsoft. At least this is the clear indication of the latest round of AV-Comparatives tests from Andreas Clementi. Microsoft OneCare 1.6 was topped by security solutions from household names on the security marke... |
4 September 2007
10:23 GMT |
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Windows security does not stop at the client or the server side. In fact, Windows security also extends to embedded systems. In this context, Microsoft welcomed McAfee to the world of embedded Windows as the Santa Clara security company introduced in mid August support for Windows XP embedded. The McAfee VirusScan En... |
28 August 2007
05:20 GMT |
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In the latest anti-virus comparatives performed by AV-Test, Microsoft's security solutions exploded to an over 95% detection rate, topping household names such as Sophos, Nod32, McAfee and Trend Micro. According to the comparison put together by AV-Test, Microsoft came in tenth place out of a collection of no le... |
27 August 2007
11:06 GMT |
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The undetectable Blue Pill rootkit designed for the 64-bit editions of Windows Vista by Joanna Rutkowska CEO of Invisible Things Lab, just got a whole lot more detectable as McAfee got in on the game. Rutkowska claims that the Blue Pill virtualization based rootkit that she demonstrated initially on a 64-bit edition ... |
14 August 2007
08:58 GMT |
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Security company McAfee today released a new security solution able to detect rootkits on your computer and clean them before they manage to harm the system. Rootkit Detective is available for free for all the users and, since January when it was made available as a beta program, it has been downloaded by more than 1... |
26 July 2007
09:45 GMT |
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The spammers are tending to use more and more advanced techniques in order to trick the consumers into visiting a malicious website or just to advertise their products. Following the recent evolution to the PDF files, the attackers are now using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, .XLS format, containing adverts to all kin... |
26 July 2007
06:10 GMT |
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McAfee, the producer of famous security solutions such as antiviruses, firewalls and antispam tools, announced a deal with Jamcracker, a software distribution platform that might help the company reach new clients from every corner of the world. Because Jamcracker is described as an on-demand services delivery compan... |
25 July 2007
10:08 GMT |
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