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Anti-spam groups slam plans for email fees

News A leading anti-spam agency has struck back at moves to charge companies a fixed fee to ensure emails are delivered, saying it will erode freedoms. On Monday, Richard Cox, chief information officer of anti-spam organisation Spamhaus, said that "an...

8 February 2006, 9:58

Microsoft tinkers with anti-spyware tools

News Microsoft has released an enhanced version of its anti-spyware product as it continues to work on a new version of the application, which is due out in beta later this year. The company is continuing to work with numerous groups to find ways to...

21 July 2005, 8:27

Will Vista kill the anti-spyware business?

News Integrating Windows Defender into Windows Vista is sort of the last nail into the standalone anti-spyware coffin," he said. It will introduce important changes at the heart of the operating system, as well as to Internet Explorer, and include...

20 March 2006, 11:43

Anti-terror gadgets tested on London commuters

News Trials of airport-style body-scanning technology and high-tech closed-circuit TV systems are to begin today at London's Paddington station as part of the government's attempts to reduce the risk of terrorist bomb attacks on the capital's...

12 January 2006, 9:51

Anti-plagiarism tech catches cheaters

News University admissions body Ucas is using automated detection technology to spot plagiarised applications from students. Ucas ran a trial of the CopyCatch software from CFL Software on 50,000 university applications last year because of rising...

2 October 2007, 8:29

Apple's iTunes DRM cracked

News Apple's proprietary DRM technology may have survived allegations of anti-competitiveness and even government attempts at intervention in the past two years, but it seems one software engineer has found a way to crack the iTunes code.

26 October 2006, 10:17

Flaw found in Sophos antivirus software

News The company said that Sophos Anti-Virus can potentially be attacked by a buffer overflow, which knocks out a program by flooding it with data. An update for Sophos Anti-Virus Small Business Edition will be released on Friday, and all other versions...

29 July 2005, 9:45

Microsoft: SP2 makes Windows 15 times safer

News Jason Garms, who heads the company's anti-malware product team, said Tuesday that this improvement had been revealed by an internal analysis of SP2's performance. Garms also revealed that Microsoft is planning to release an enterprise version of...

26 May 2005, 10:02

UK schools battle cyber bullies

News According to research from the Anti-Bullying Alliance, one in five pupils have experienced some form of cyber bullying, with girls much more likely to be bullied -- especially by text messages and phone calls -- than boys.

26 July 2006, 9:30

Barney's Web legal threats now extinct

News Lawyers for the plush children's icon have agreed to pay $5,000 (£2,565) to settle a federal lawsuit filed against them in August by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which was defending an anti-Barney Web site called the 'Source of All Evil'.

29 November 2006, 10:01

Rootkit controversy not hurting Sony sales

News On Monday, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott charged that the entertainment giant violated Texas' new anti-spyware law by releasing albums that secretly installed rootkit software that hid itself on computer hard drives.

22 November 2005, 9:04

Videogames that stick it to 'The Man'

News Known as 'anti-advergames', the new titles satirise big companies and question corporate polices ranging from how cattle are raised to low pay for workers. To be sure, as a young genre, there are few pure anti-advergames making the rounds of the...

6 February 2006, 10:07

Microsoft 'frightened' by police hack

News The machine was running no antivirus, firewall, or anti-spyware, and contained a sample target file of passwords to be stolen. McGrath said that having anti-spyware installed was not as important as having that software updated.

Tags: businesses, windows xp, anti, operating system

14 November 2007, 9:30

IE 7 beta bugs abound

News Issues reported several times include compatibility problems with McAfee security software and trouble installing the browser due to unnamed anti-spyware and antivirus tools. Some anti-spyware and antivirus software is known to interfere with IE 7...

2 February 2006, 9:54

Mobile operators lock VoIP features

News James Tagg, chief executive of Truphone, which provides VoIP clients for mobile handsets, told CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet UK on Thursday that Orange and Vodafone's decision was anti-competitive and "causes problems to the market".

20 April 2007, 10:09