| Computer viruses, spam gaining momentum in Russia - analysts | | Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 3:09:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | MOSCOW, January 30 (RIA Novosti) - Almost twice as many computer viruses were detected in Russia in 2006 than the year before, and the volume of spam reached 70-80% of e-mail traffic, analysts with the country's leading anti-virus software company said Tuesday. Kaspersky Lab's Alexander Gostev told a news conference that the number of malicious software programs had grown 41% year-on-year to about 60,000. Moderately harmful trojans which cannot reproduce themselves accounted for 91% of the total, while 5% were self-replicating worms and 4% were malware. However, "Nine major viral epidemics were detected in 2005, which is almost 50% lower than last year's figure [14]," he said. According to Gostev, the number of viruses spreading through mobile telephones has been growing particularly rapidly in recent years.... | |
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| | | Qwest adds anti-virus and anti-spam to service | | Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 1:15:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | The AVAS gateway service guards companies against unsolicited email, viruses, worms and unwanted content. The managed service offers an online portal that lets users control thresholds, reporting, filtering and account preferences. Customers configuring their mail exchange record to point to a Qwest-specified network mail-exchange record where all e-mail is filtered through AVAS and then forwarded to the user. Qwest joins other carriers entering the email security market. In August, XO Communications announced an email security and disaster-recovery service that identifies junk email, denial-of-service attacks and viruses. BellSouth in April produced a service that lets its business-DSL customers encrypt outgoing email. AT&T offers encryption on its client software for its Business Internet dial-up service, and Verizon has an email encryption service for businesses.... | |
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| | | Transbeam provides Corporate and Small Business Clients with More Options and Less Spam Thanks to CanIt-PRO | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 7:33:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | As a provider of "One Stop Shopping" for Corporate and Small Business clientele nationwide, New York City's Transbeam offers everything from high-speed DSL and T1 Connections to Long Distance and VoIP telephone services. Although they were originally using Roaring Penguin's MIMEDefang anti-spam product, they were wooed to another product. As Transbeam's Server Administrator, John Dudley explains, it wasn't long before things were going downhill. "The new spam filter couldn't handle the load of email. It slowed down, then finally stopped working altogether." "It was definitely a priority on the 'To Do' list." Says Avi Nebel, Executive Vice President and Director at Transbeam. The company spent the better part of a year searching for the right solution. "We spent an endless amount of hours in engineering meetings trying to come up with something solid.... | |
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| | | Spam levels reach record high | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:15:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | Levels of spam rose sharply in October to account for 89.07% of all e-mail during the month, according to figures from SoftScan. The security firm warned that, unlike during the summer months which can create misleading statistics on spam levels as the amount of legitimate e-mail drops, the latest rise is all due to additional spam. Spam levels reached a record breaking 96% in early October, supporting estimates that the trend over the whole month has been much higher than in the past two months. "The spam highs normally seen in the summer are brought about by the low levels of normal business e-mail as many people are away from work taking their summer holiday," said Diego d'Ambra, chief technology officer at SoftScan. "But this time the levels of legitimate e-mail have stayed the same and the spike is purely due to a marked increase of nearly 4% in spam." Virus levels remained low during October, however, accounting for just 0.41% of e-mail scanned by SoftScan.... | |
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| | | Software defends users' information against Internet fraud. | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:42:11 AM by Blog57 Team | | Anonymous Surfing Platinum(TM) provides Internet privacy and identity protection from spam, phishing and pharming scams, and spyware. Anonymous Surfing(TM) shields IP addresses and provides Wi-Fi data security and 128-bit SSL encryption, while Digital Shredder(TM) removes cookies, Internet tracks, and sensitive files. Internet protection software suite features Nyms(TM) to create anonymous, disposable email addresses and password generator to produce random and complex passwords. .... | |
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| | | Aladdin eSafe Receives Information Security Decisions Excellence Award | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 7:21:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | Aladdin Knowledge Systems , the leader in Software DRM, identity management and content security solutions, today announced that Aladdin eSafe, an integrated, gateway-based anti-virus, spyware control, Web browsing security and application filtering solution, received the 2006 Information Security Decisions Innovation Award for Large Companies. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040416/CGALADDINLOGO ) This year's Information Security Decisions Best in Show Awards recognized outstanding products featured at the recent Information Security Decisions conference held October 18-20 at the Hilton Chicago in Chicago, Ill. Nominations were reviewed by a team of judges which included Burton Group Security and Risk Management Strategies analysts, the editors of TechTarget's Security Media Group and security professionals attending the Information Security Decisions event.... | |
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| | | Apollo Hosting Deploys CanIt-PRO Anti-Spam Software to 30,000 ... | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:39:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | "We love the excellent customer support that we got for CanIt-PRO. We were using another anti-spam product and it could not handle the load. CanIt-PRO handles our load fine! It's a great product and the support is there to back it up." - Tamara Field, President, Apollo Hosting. Specializing in 'Total Solutions Hosting' Apollo Hosting provides everything their customers need to build, sell and market their websites. Their web servers were processing over half a million unsolicited spam emails on a daily basis. Apollo's Vice President of Operations, Don McLeman was I.T. Manager at the time and oversaw the switch to CanIt-PRO. "We were fairly happy with our anti-spam filter at the time, but they wanted to renegotiate the contract," McLeman explains, "this would have been expensive for us and bad for our clients." The hunt was on for another Spam Filter provider.... | |
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| | | Zero-Hour Antivirus and Real-Time Spam Protection Now Available to MDaemon Users | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:15:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | Alt-N Technologies today announced SecurityPlus for MDaemon® as its newest weapon in the fight against the complex threat of email-borne viruses, spam and other malware. SecurityPlus incorporates traditional signature based anti-virus technology as well as a totally new proactive Outbreak Protection technology to deliver the strongest protection available for the new 9.5 version release of the MDaemon Windows-based email server. Outbreak Protection is a revolutionary, real-time anti-spam, zero-hour anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-phishing technology capable of proactively protecting an MDaemon email user automatically and within minutes of an outbreak. Outbreak Protection requires no heuristic rules, content filtering, or signature updates. Instead, it relies on the analysis of "patterns" associated with an email message and compares them to similar patterns collected from a half billion email messages sampled daily, in real-time from live Internet email traffic.... | |
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| | | BitDefender Scan Engine is "The One and Only"! | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 7:10:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | BitDefender(R), an award-winning provider of antivirus software and data security solutions, today announced that their scan engine was awarded by Virus Bulletin to detect 100% viruses in the wild. Tested by Virus Bulletin on Windows XP Professional SP2, BitDefender's powerful security solution was proven to be one of the most secure anti-virus solutions available. Initially, Virus Bulletin judges first denied awarding the BitDefender scan engine because the software identified what had thought to be a clean file as malware. All other security solutions not using the BitDefender engine identified the file as clean as well. However, upon closer examination, Virus Bulletin judges found that the file that BitDefender identified as malware actually was infected and commended BitDefender for detecting it.... | |
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| | | Spam maker loses spam trademark | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 7:10:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | The maker of canned meat product Spam has lost a European trademark case that would have given it rights over the word spam when it relates to email-related products. Hormel Foods owns the trademark for 'SPAM' (spiced ham). However it recently attempted to register Spam as a trademark to prevent other companies using the word in their anti-spam product names. However, the European Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) rejected the application because Hormel Foods is not connected to the email business. It added that "for the consumers the meaning of spam will certainly be unsolicited, usually commercial email, rather than a designation for canned spicy ham", the Associated Press reports. Hormel Foods thinks it is acceptable to refer to unsolicited commercial email as spam, as long as the first letter remains lower-case.... | |
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