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Photos: Visualisations of Web viruses
News Security company MessageLabs commissioned Romanian artist Alex Dragulescu to create visual representations of Internet viruses, trojans and worms. MessageLabs provides Dragulescu with the original code of the malware, and using the particulars of...
Tags: email, malware, worms, detection
12 March 2008, 9:08 > More matches in News
TomTom sat-navs shipped with viruses
News Satellite-navigation company TomTom has admitted that it has shipped two viruses on a number of its devices. TomTom had not confirmed the exact viruses present in the copy.exe and host.exe files at the time of writing, but did highly recommend that...
30 January 2007, 9:37 > More matches in News
Mobile phone viruses "massively over-hyped"
News Antivirus firm F-Secure has been accused of 'over-hyping' the threat of mobile phone viruses in order to drive the sales of a new product guarding against such threats. But the Finnish antivirus vendor has resolutely defended its claim that such...
6 September 2005, 9:09 > More matches in News
Browser-based attacks rising as viruses fall
News As the threat to IT operations by viruses and worms declines, browser-based attacks are on the rise, according to a technology trade organisation. Still, viruses and worms continue to be the number one IT security threat, though the number of these...
15 June 2005, 9:29 > More matches in News
Sophos founder: Macs can get viruses
News Speaking in an interview with CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet Australia, Dr Jan Hruska, who co-founded Sophos and was one of the first ever PC antivirus experts, said viruses on the Mac are here and now.
8 June 2007, 10:05 > More matches in News
Boot Camp won't expose Macs to viruses
News Silver said in the advisory: "All users should ignore any hype about the possibility of exposing the Mac OS to more viruses or worms. Any talk of Apple's Boot Camp software exposing the company's operating system to security risks is just hype and...
13 April 2006, 9:12 > More matches in News
Brits sent down for writing viruses
News Two UK men have received jail terms for conspiring to create a computer worm for an international hacking group. Jordan Bradley, a 22-year-old electrician from Darlington, was sentenced to three months at Newcastle Crown Court after pleading guilty...
10 October 2005, 10:00 > More matches in News
Dr. Web CureIt
Downloads As hundreds new viruses appear and spread in hours around the world daily, CureIt! WEB CureIt detects and removes: mass-mailing worms; e-mail viruses; peer-to-peer viruses; Internet worms; file viruses; Trojans; stealth viruses; polymorphic viruses...
24 September 2008, 19:19 > More matches in Downloads
AK-Protection
Downloads Protect your PC from current and future viruses as well. Protect your operating system from viruses, spy programs, suspicious applications, and malicious programs. Control what other users do through your password.Version 3.1 may include...
30 September 2008, 10:01 > More matches in Downloads
Anti-Virus&Trojan
Downloads Detect and eliminate viruses, Trojans, and macro viruses, even new and unknown ones on your PC. Anti-Virus and Trojan initiated a system named Guard Ghost to supervise all running processes in the memory system, Windows files, and open ports to...
9 September 2008, 1:31 > More matches in Downloads
Guardon Anti-Virus and Spyware
Downloads Guardon Anti-virus and Spyware helps you remove spyware, password stealers, adware, and viruses. Guardon Anti-virus and Spyware supervises all running processes in the memory system, Windows files, and open ports, searching for viruses and spywares...
16 October 2008, 15:46 > More matches in Downloads
Rising Antivirus Free Edition
Downloads Rising Antivirus Free Edition protects your computers against all types of viruses, Trojans, worms, rootkits, and other malicious programs. Key Features: Proactive defence technology, patented scanning technology for unknown viruses, patented fully...
16 September 2008, 20:31 > More matches in Downloads
Commander Mobile Anti-Virus
Downloads Commander Mobile Anti-Virus a solution for protecting mobile phones from threats in real-time by blocking any attempt by viruses, worms, and other malicious elements from installing themselves. Over 30 mobile phone viruses and threats have so far...
8 July 2005, 1:16 > More matches in Downloads
VirusKeeper 2008
Downloads VirusKeeper 2008 protects the computer against viruses and spyware. VirusKeeper 2008 acts as a shield against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. VirusKeeper uses a powerful real-time threat detection engine.
29 January 2008, 17:01 > More matches in Downloads
Virus & Spyware Security Shield
Downloads Virus & Spyware Security Shield offers complete protection against viruses, worms, Trojans and dialers. It protects against viruses, worms, Trojan horses and dialers and includes sophisticated heuristic-analysis algorithms that can recognize as-yet...
18 September 2008, 0:32 > More matches in Downloads


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