Virus Writers Mean Business

November 15th, 2007 by Batya | Category: Data & Research, Email Security | Leave a comment »

It seems the wicked of the computer world have officially sold out. According to a recently released report by Panda Security virus writers are no longer interested in old fashioned havoc-wreaking worms. The notorious script kiddies of the past have either sold out or been replaced by money hungry trespassers, who now focus on revenue [...]

Tags: adware, computerweekly, Don Hoskins, malware, Panda Security, Trojans, viruses, worms

New Worm Detection Technology

February 16th, 2007 by Michael Tamir | Category: Email Security | Leave a comment »

Penn State University researches say they have developed anti-malware technology that can identify and contain worms in milliseconds rather than minutes. The name of this new technology is Proactive Worm Containment, and it focuses on analyzing packet rate, frequency of connections and diversity of connections to other networks, rather than relying on signature or pattern [...]

Tags: anti-malware, pattern identification, proactive worm containment, signature identification, worms

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