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CA Anti-Virus Plus CA Anti-Spyware 2008
Reviewed on October 12, 2007
CA Anti-Virus Plus CA Anti-Spyware 2008 holds the middle ground this year, featuring faster code but lacking any compelling "must-have" features.
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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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Bagle keeps on toasting PCs
July 19, 2004
Publicly available source code means the latest variant of the virus won't be the last.
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Standoff over PC-to-mobile jumping code
March 6, 2006
Virus code isn't shared between some researchers and antivirus companies, amid allegations of "bullying."
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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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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.
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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.
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Gartner takes Microsoft to task
February 18, 2005
Software giant should focus on securing Windows, not on entering anti-spyware and antivirus market, an analyst says.
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Malicious program aims for Pocket PCs
August 5, 2004
The first-ever Trojan horse program to target Microsoft-powered handhelds rolls into town. But experts say it has an Achilles' heel.
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RIAA to face MyDoom's music?
February 21, 2004
A slow-spreading variant of the MyDoom virus is expected to target the recording industry's Web site with a deluge of data. But the RIAA may not feel the pain.
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Sasser worm begins to spread
May 1, 2004
A worm starts spreading through the Internet using a vulnerability in a widely used component of the Windows operating system.
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TomTom shipped viruses on its navigation devices
January 29, 2007
"Small number" of GO 910 devices included two Windows-based bugs; no reports of problems yet, company says.
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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.
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Latest Bagle succeeds by sheer numbers
July 16, 2004
Online vandals aim to profit more from the mass-mailing computer virus by relaying information through a legion of German Web sites.
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Users race against worm, variants
August 13, 2003
As the MSBlast worm--aka W32/Lovsan and W32.Blaster--spreads to about 2,500 new computers per hour, antivirus firms say a new variant has been released and that patching is crucial.
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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
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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.
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Cleanup dampens Blaster worm
August 14, 2003
The MSBlast worm's infection rate is slowing as people and businesses disinfect compromised computers, say antivirus companies--though not everyone agrees it's all over yet.
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MSBlast echoes across the Net
August 15, 2003
special coverage The spread of the worm--which exploits perhaps the most widespread Windows flaw ever--continues even as individuals and businesses clean up their computers.
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Double MyDoom for Internet Explorer flaw
November 9, 2004
A second MyDoom offshoot is taking advantage of an unpatched security hole in Microsoft's Web browser to spread.
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