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Kaspersky inadvertently quarantines Windows Explorer

December 21, 2007 A false positive in company's antivirus products leads to quarantine or deletion of some Windows users' copies of explorer.exe. TAGS: Kaspersky Lab, antivirus company, Microsoft Windows Explorer, antivirus, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, operating system

Microsoft offers prank Blue Screen Of Death

November 14, 2006 A spoof screensaver of the IT nightmare is now available from Microsoft. Antivirus vendors are not amused. TAGS: blue screen of death, Sysinternals, antivirus company, screensaver, Microsoft Corp., antivirus, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows

Sneaky new virus format has software makers scrambling

July 7, 2000 In the latest case of virus writers being a step ahead of the computer industry, a comparatively new type of virus is forcing antivirus software companies to rebuild their products. TAGS: antivirus company, antivirus software, antivirus software company, Symantec Corp., virus, software company, Eudora, antivirus, Symantec Norton AntiVirus, Computer Associates International Inc., e-mail, message, Microsoft Corp.

Site-blocking worm carries phishing risk

April 11, 2005 Worm alters system files to block some antivirus company Web sites--a ploy that could be used in phishing scams, Trend Micro warns. TAGS: phishing, antivirus company, worm, phishing Web site, Trend Micro Inc., online retailer, Web browser, bank, antivirus, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, e-mail

Expert: Flaw still dogs Windows patch

January 25, 2005 An antivirus firm says Microsoft overlooked a potential exploit in its last Windows fixes. The software giant disagrees. TAGS: GeCad, antivirus software, vulnerability, flaw, exploit, antivirus company, HTML, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack, patch, representative, researcher, security, Microsoft Corp., antivirus, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP

Super Bowl stadium site packed Trojan horse

February 2, 2007 Cybercrooks reprogram Dolphin Stadium Web site to load script that would attempt to exploit two Windows security holes.Images: Stadium site gets sacked TAGS: Dolphin Ltd., Websense Inc., Super Bowl, Web security, antivirus company, attack, patch management, Windows PC, security company, trojan horse, security, antivirus, Microsoft Corp., PC

FAQ: The Kama Sutra worm

February 2, 2006 What you need to know about the virus, which is set to delete files on Feb. 3. TAGS: Kama Sutra worm, antivirus company, antivirus, e-mail, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Week in review: Lump of coal for Microsoft

December 24, 2004 Software giant gets an unwelcome gift when a European court orders it to start offering a version of Windows without a bundled media player. TAGS: Week in review, media player, BitTorrent, antivirus company, Google Inc., hacker, worm, Microsoft Windows Media Player, Windows Media, Microsoft Corp., security, Apple Computer, antivirus, Microsoft Windows, operating system

Year in review: Old worms, new tricks

December 27, 2005 Sober came back to bite, while hackers hunted for new ways to attack and spread code--and Sony stumbled into a rootkit debacle. TAGS: Zotob worm, zombie, rootkit, antivirus company, Cisco Systems Inc., worm, trick, hacker, security, e-mail, Web browser, antivirus, server, operating system, Microsoft Corp., PC
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