Security 11021 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Trojan Remover was written to aid in the removal of Trojan Horses from a computer where standard anti-virus software has either failed to detect the Trojan Horse or is unable to effectively eliminate it. In no way should it be considered as an alternative to regularly using good anti-virus software to protect your computer.

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Symantec has released a new virus definitions update for Norton Antivirus.

This is the latest virus pattern to detect the latest viruses. This update will work on the following products: NAV 2000 for Win9x/NT/2000,
NAV 2001 for Win95b/98/NT/2000/Me,
NAV 2002 Professional Edition,
NAV 2002 for Win98/Me/NT/2000/XP Home/XP Pro,
NAV 4.0 for Windows 3.51,
NAV 5.0 and 2000 for Win9x,
NAV 5.0 and 2000 for WinNT,
NAV for Firewalls 1.5 or higher,
NAV for Lotus Notes (Intel),
NAV for MS Exchange (Intel),
Norton SystemWorks (all versions),
Norton Utilities for Windows 95/98 (all versions), pcAnywhere32 7.5 and higher for WinNT.

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Security 11021 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The publication of rogue code which can format users' hard disks if they so much as visit a Web page with Internet Explorer (or read an e-mail message with Outlook or Outlook Express) has revived a furious debate among security experts regarding the ethics of disclosing exploit code.

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Microsoft is promising customers that it will simplify the security alerts it routinely issues on problems affecting its products.

The company notified customers of pending changes to security alert bulletins in an e-mail sent Tuesday to the Microsoft Security Notification Service mailing list.

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Ten months after Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates called on company employees to make Windows more trustworthy, a company executive said the initiative is paying off.

Speaking at the software giant's monthly Silicon Valley Speaker series, Craig Mundie, senior vice president for advanced strategies and policy, said that headway has been made in the company's Trustworthy Computing initiative.

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Almost a month since its initial discovery, Symantec has finally issued a fix for a serious bug in its Internet security software.

The flaw in Norton Internet Security 2003 was known to delete incoming e-mail messages from selected addresses.

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A Russian antivirus company apologized Friday for an e-mailed virus alert that was infected with the very worm the message was supposedly designed to warn against.

Kaspersky Labs said the message, sent Thursday to subscribers of the company's "Virus News" e-mail dispatch, had actually been sent by hackers masquerading as the company. The hackers had managed to break into Moscow-based Kaspersky's computer system and steal the mailing list for the newsletter, the company said.

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Microsoft is still investigating flaws found last month in Internet Explorer that could allow malicious hackers to access users' passwords for e-commerce and online banking sites.

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