Norton 360 2.0′s basic specification is unchanged: it offers comprehensive protection against spyware and virus malware, data loss, identity loss and phishing, thus covering most if not all current security risks.

One year on and it’s time for a revamp of Norton’s premier home security product, Norton 360. Read the rest of this entry »

Spyware has a lot of side effects of the registry. One of the greatest drawbacks is the slowing down of the system. This process will continue until the registry is cleaned with a registry cleaner.

If you have browsed the Internet for a substantial number of hours it is guaranteed that you have downloaded some sort of Spyware to your system, albeit inadvertently. That is the reason it is called Spyware. If it made itself known it would not be spying. Spyware is not illegal software. It is downloaded with the ‘permission’ of the user. Once the Spyware downloads and installs itself it begins, first of all, to consolidate itself on the machine. It does this by entering its information in multiple parts of the registry. These entries can only be removed with Spyware removal utilities and there are many free anti Spyware and Adware removal tools available to do a satisfactory job for you. Read the rest of this entry »

Question: I had this come up in my Computer Associates virus check a while back. I thought the CA program had eliminated it as I haven’t seen it again in a few months after several runs of CAAV. Suddenly it popped up again. Is this something related to an e-mail I might have which hasn’t been opened yet? Why didn’t my CA anti-virus program delete it rather than tell me I had it? Part of the "messagestoreinbox.imm" is in "file name" location. Read the rest of this entry »

Vital business emails are going astray, intercepted and quarantined by YahooXtra’s spam filters without the knowledge of the sender or the receiver.

Wellington-based Graphic Dimensions, which provides IT support and services to architectural design companies, has had problems sending email to xtra.co.nz addresses since the beginning of February.

Email from the company, which is also an Xtra customer, is classified by the YahooXtra mail filter as spam, says Graphic Dimensions’ technical director, Paul O’Brien. Read the rest of this entry »

Spam originating from popular webmail services are spiking now that spammers have found ways to evade the challenge-response requirements for opening an account, a new study from email security firm MessageLabs reveals.

According to the company’s Intelligence Report for February, 4.6 percent of spam originates from webmail-based services, notably Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail. While Yahoo still remains the most targeted webmail provider – accounting for 88.7 of all webmail spam – the amount of spam being sent through Gmail doubled from 1.3 percent in January to 2.6 percent in February. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve had my iPhone for months now and, until about two weeks ago, I was secretly unhappy with how it handled my email. You see, I get lots of email. Lots and lots, as a matter of fact, and it comes into twelve different accounts. I used to use Apple’s Mail to manage it on my MacBook, and all was good. But when I got my iPhone, I discovered that the phone’s lack of spam-filtering power made it literally unusable for my deluge of email.

Mail always sorted my mail invisibly, and its built-in spam filter kept the junk out of my Inbox. I use IMAP mail services, which means that all of my mail stays on the server, so I can access it from my MacBook, someone else’s computer via webmail or, I thought, my iPhone. But when I synced the accounts to the phone, the Inbox filled with spam so quickly that my actual email was lost in the mix. Read the rest of this entry »

Updated Hackers have found a new way to get Google to point to malicious websites with the help of unwitting websites such as TorrentReactor, ZDNet Asia and several other CNET-owned properties.

As a result, more than 101,000 Google search results that appeared to lead to pages of legitimate sites actually directed end users to sites that attempted to install malware.

The hack, which was first documented Wednesday by Netherlands-based researcher Dancho Danchev, takes advantage of the practice by many sites of logging search queries typed into their search boxes and storing them where search engine bots can see them. The terms are then indexed by Google and other search engines and included in the results they return. Exploiting the weakness is as easy as typing popular search terms into a popular website along with the text of an IFRAME that points to a malicious website. Within time, the strings will be included in results returned by Google and others. Read the rest of this entry »

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of Internet threat management solutions that protect against all forms of malicious software, today announced the release of Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 protects users of corporate mail systems from viruses, spyware and other malware working in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, the latest version of the popular messaging and collaborative software product from Microsoft.

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 scans all email attachments and attributes and, depending on the specified settings, the application disinfects, deletes or sends an alert along with malicious objects. Moreover, scans are performed in the background and have little effect on the mail server’s performance. In order to prevent data loss, Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 saves copies of message modifications in a backup storage, which allows important information to be restored in the event of loss during treatment of an infected object. Read the rest of this entry »

IT security remains a top-of-mind issue for companies of all sizes, and at this year’s CeBIT conference, vendors pushed the benefits of data leak prevention, mobile device encryption, video surveillance, and pretty much everything up to and including locking your door at night. ChannelWeb patrolled the security pavilion in Hall 6 at CeBIT and the following is a roundup of what we encountered.

ESET

Eset, a Slovak Republic-based security vendor with U.S. offices in San Diego, highlighted the fact that its flagship antivirus product, ESET NOD32 Antivirus, now supports Windows Server 2008, Vista Service Pack 1, and XP service pack 3. The company also had one of the most visually arresting booths at CeBIT 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

Start-up NovaShield says that in May it will release its first security product for the PC, behavior-based detection software designed to catch, quarantine and eradicate malware not ordinarily detected by signature-based antivirus products.

According to the Windows-based NovaShield software will recognize activity from keyloggers, Trojans, and botnets and block them from executing. NovaShield, primarily intended for consumers as it has no central management, will block drive-by downloads of malware through its behavior-based detection method, which would alert users that suspicious activity is occurring. Read the rest of this entry »