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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.
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Microsoft's antivirus package makes a splash
August 12, 2006
Aided by low introductory pricing, Windows Live OneCare lands No. 2 sales spot at U.S. stores in its debut month.
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NPD Group Inc.
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Microsoft Windows Live
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McAfee Inc.
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Trend Micro Inc.
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Amazon.com Inc.
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Microsoft Corp.
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U.S.
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PC
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Microsoft Windows
Webroot expands beyond spyware niche
October 12, 2006
Partnership with Sophos lets company add antivirus to anti-spyware products as Microsoft readies Windows Vista.
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Sophos Plc.
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Microsoft adds Vista support in OneCare
October 10, 2006
The software maker is testing an update to its antivirus program that works with the new operating system and also is allowing folks outside the U.S. to try the service.
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Kaspersky confirms antivirus software flaw
October 4, 2005
The problem affects Windows products only and preliminary protection was available last week. A permanent fix is in the works.
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McAfee Inc.
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Flawed Symantec update cripples Chinese PCs
May 24, 2007
Update quarantined two critical system files in the Simplified Chinese version of Windows XP, affecting computers throughout China.
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Norton Co.
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Sample virus targets Windows and Linux
April 8, 2006
Another example of malicious software that can infect computers running Windows or Linux has been discovered.
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Linux
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virus
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CA antivirus deletes Windows 2003 file
September 5, 2006
Company's eTrust software detects Windows file as a virus and deletes it, causing servers to crash and fail to reboot.
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Computer Associates International Inc.
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Microsoft Windows 2003
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CA eTrust
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antivirus
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Microsoft Windows
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Microsoft Corp.
Virus-infected Creative Zen MP3 players found
September 1, 2005
Several thousand of the digital music players are thought to be affected in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Asia-Pacific
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Creative Technology Ltd.
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digital music
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Creative Zen
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music player
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antivirus company
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F-Secure Corp.
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Sophos Plc.
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antivirus software
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MP3 player
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virus
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MP3
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PC
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Antivirus makers catch up to Windows bug
January 5, 2006
Not all antivirus products offer protection against exploitations of a recently disclosed, unpatched Windows flaw.
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Raimund Genes
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Trend Micro Inc.
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Bitdefender
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Microsoft Windows Metafile
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Sophos Plc.
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F-Secure Corp.
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McAfee Inc.
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Computer Associates International Inc.
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Symantec Corp.
Microsoft exec calls XP hack 'frightening'
November 13, 2007
In a matter of minutes, e-crime experts hack into a Windows XP computer that is unprotected and connected to an unsecured wireless network.
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malware
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Service Pack 2
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Microsoft Corp.
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Microsoft's own antivirus fails to secure Vista
February 6, 2007
Test of 15 antivirus packages shows failures in four. Microsoft pledges improvements; McAfee says its updates weren't included.
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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.
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F-Secure issues patch for critical flaws
January 19, 2006
Its focus is on flaws in the way F-Secure products handle data compression archives.
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Zombie tool makes use of Windows, antivirus flaws
November 30, 2006
Bot software that turns PCs into zombies spreads via holes in Symantec and Microsoft products.
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PC
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Windows Live offers a vast array of services
March 14, 2006
chart What exactly is Microsoft making available via Windows Live? The complete list is here.
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Gmail
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social networking
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Yahoo! Inc.
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MSN
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Google Inc.
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U.S.
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antivirus
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Microsoft Windows
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video
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Microsoft Corp.
Chills at Microsoft's security huddle
July 24, 2006
Microsoft has quietly held meetings with top antivirus researchers for almost 10 years, but there's some unease now that Redmond is a rival.
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McAfee Inc.
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Microsoft Corp.
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Worm wriggles through Yahoo mail flaw
June 12, 2006
JavaScript flaw lets worm send itself to other Yahoo Web mail addresses when user merely opens the e-mail.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Yahoo! Mail
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Microsoft security zaps laptop tracer
December 15, 2005
Windows OneCare Live has been found to disable Absolute Software's Computrace LoJack software.
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Absolute Software
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antivirus software
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Symantec Corp.
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security
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Microsoft Corp.
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McAfee Inc.
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laptop computer
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antivirus
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Microsoft Windows
New Windows Trojan causes confusion
November 11, 2005
Trend Micro initially reported that it spotted a Trojan horse that exploits the latest Windows flaw, but now it's not so sure.
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Raimund Genes
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Trend Micro Inc.
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trojan horse
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vulnerability
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Microsoft Windows Metafile
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software company
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