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Facebook adds Antivirus Marketplace: Security or marketing?

May 3, 2012 6:00am PDT

Patrick Lambert looks at the additional security measures that Facebook put in place for its users, including free antivirus options.

Q&A

The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction

May 2, 2012 6:10am PDT

The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction After loggin on to Windows XP dos windows (with the title "c:\windows\system32\ntvdm.exe") appear cascaded on the sceen. And there is an error...

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Detection of Malicious Code-Injection Attack Using Two Phase Analysis Technique

May 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

In today's world code injection attack is a very big problem. Code injection attacks are to exploit software vulnerabilities and inject malicious code into target program. These malicious codes...

Provided by: International Journal of Computer Applications

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The New Age of Computer Virus and Their Detection

May 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

This paper presents a general overview on computer viruses and defensive techniques. Computer virus writers commonly use metamorphic techniques to produce viruses that change their internal...

Provided by: Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center

Blog Post

Let Super Security Standard protect your Android mobile

April 30, 2012 7:01am PDT

Jack Wallen takes a look at the Super Security Standard application. Find out why he believes this is one of the finest security apps for Android platform.

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ADAM: An Automatic and Extensible Platform to Stress Test Android Anti-Virus Systems

April 30, 2012 12:00am PDT

With the rising threat of smartphone malware, both academic community and commercial anti-virus companies proposed many methodologies and products to defend against smartphone malware. Thus, how...

Provided by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Duqu: Analysis, Detection, and Lessons Learned

April 10, 2012 12:00am PDT

A European company sought the authors' help to investigate a security incident that happened in their IT system. During the investigation, they discovered a new malware that was unknown to all...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

Blog Post

Watch out for Flashback trojan on Macs: Reports of over 600K infected

April 5, 2012 11:06am PDT

A growing Mac botnet has resulted from the Flashback trojan, which targets Macs through Java vulnerabilties and is designed to steal personal information. Make sure you are patched.

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Implement Access Control Architecture to Enhance Security and Availability of Cloud Computing Systems

April 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing can improve utilization of powerful computer systems. However, security problems become an important challenge in the cloud systems. Implementation of antivirus software can cost a...

Provided by: Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)

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Defending Polymorphic Worms in Computer Network Using Honeynet

April 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

The authors propose a defense mechanism in computer network using gate-translator, double honeynet, sticky honeypot and antivirus engine of CloudAV, which attracts polymorphic worms. An algorithm...

Provided by: International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)

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The Impact of Disk Fragmentation on Servers

April 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

Windows IT Pro tested the impact of server disk fragmentation by looking at common tasks that network servers, both physical and virtual, encounter, ranging from maintenance tasks such as server...

Provided by: Condusiv Technologies

Discussion Threads

How effective is antivirus software on smartphones?

March 31, 2012 2:42pm PDT

How effective is antivirus software on smartphones? article root I have to disagree. While Mr. Lambert makes some valid points about how modern phone operating systems are more secure than their...

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Blog Post

How effective is antivirus software on smartphones?

March 30, 2012 9:54am PDT

Patrick Lambert looks at the limited usefulness of smartphone antivirus apps. Should you bother with it?

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Discussion Threads

Most effective anti-virus

March 13, 2012 10:57am PDT

Most effective anti-virus Wondering what you guys out there think is the best 3 anti-virus support for a home user? I am trying to decide which is the best for me. Which take threats off most...

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A Powerful Pattern Matching Algorithm for Embedded Network Security

March 1, 2012 12:00am PST

Network security applications generally require the ability to perform powerful pattern matching to protect against attacks such as viruses and spam. Traditional hard-ware solutions are intended...

Provided by: International Journal of Communications and Engineering

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Intrusion Detection System Using Memtic Algorithm Supporting With Genetic and Decision Tree Algorithms

March 1, 2012 12:00am PST

This paper has proposed a technique of combining Decision Tree, Genetic Algorithm, DT-GA and Memtic algorithm to find more accurate models for fitting the behavior of network intrusion detection...

Provided by: International Journal of Computer Science Issues

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Intelligent Defense against Malicious JavaScript Code

February 28, 2012 12:00am PST

JavaScript is a popular scripting language for creating dynamic and interactive web pages. Unfortunately, JavaScript also provides the ground for web-based attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in...

Provided by: University of Göttingen

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Detecting Unknown Malicious Code by Applying Classification Techniques on OpCode Patterns

February 24, 2012 12:00am PST

In previous studies classification algorithms were employed successfully for the detection of unknown malicious code. Most of these studies extracted features based on byte n-gram patterns in...

Provided by: Springer

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Anti-virus to web filtering: A glance into a small company's IT system toolbox

February 22, 2012 5:23am PST

Mark Pimperton describes the favored system tools used by a small UK manufacturer and why they might warrant a place in your toolbox.

Downloads

GFI VIPRE Business Free Download

February 22, 2012 12:00am PST

System administrators are experiencing escalating frustration over the problems of existing endpoint security solutions, such as bloat, high resource usage, and difficult or poor desktop agent...

Provided by: GFI Software