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Topic: Spyware

Spyware News

19 August 2008

Money talks as PC Tools falls to Symantec

By John E. Dunn, Techworld

The ever-acquisitive Symantec is to buy anti-malware vendor PC Tools, taking another prominent independent out of circulation. Read more...

Spyware Blog Entries

27 May 2008

Zlob Trojan defeats Vista security

By John E. Dunn

There’s been a vague assumption in some quarters that because Vista initially proved so hard for legitimate programmers to tangle with, malware writers would struggle as well. Read more...

Spyware Insight

12 May 2008

NASA employee scammed with "dating" attack

By Sharon Gaudin, Computerworld (US)

The latest targeted attack incident being studied by security pros - a simple online dating scam that endangered NASA's secrets. Read more...

Spyware Briefings

16 May 2008

Problems with monitoring virtual infrastructure

By Edward L. Haletky, CIO.com

Questions about how to monitor VMware ESX installations are common on community forums, but the term "monitoring" covers so much ground and could involve so many tools that the question requires a lot of refinement. Read more...

Spyware Interviews

05 June 2007

Cisco aims IronPort at the spam menace

By Cara Garretson, Network World

IronPort's CEO says spammers are like dogs - but perhaps not in the same way that the rest of us do. Read more...

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Spyware Whitepapers

10 April 2008

Spyware: A morphing campaign

By McAfee

This paper explores how spyware authors have changed their plan of attack and asks whether we should be more concerned with what we cannot see. Read more...

Spyware Product Reviews

13 September 2007

Yoggie Pico Pro

By John E. Dunn, Techworld

  • List price: £106 ($179) inc. VAT. Second year subscription £16.
  • Pros: Updates itself without tying up/rebooting PC; Sets security automatically; Strong policy management; Very cheap for second year onwards.
  • Cons: Doesn’t always work happily with third-party AV; Some unexplained Wi-Fi issues; Anti-spam false positives. Read more...

Spyware Case Studies

13 February 2007

An express router to network admission control

By Tim Greene, Network World

This Canadian school board discovered that an appliance was the perfect way to jump safely into NAC. Read more...

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