Trend Micro aims at corporate spyware
Antivirus company Trend Micro plans to tackle the growing problem of spyware by cutting the communication link between hackers and the computers they have compromised.
Spyware, such as password-stealing keyloggers, secretly reports information back to whoever planted it. Such software has been used to steal identity and banking information, and was implicated in a foiled bank robbery earlier this year.
But Trend Micro claims that a new beta version of InterScan Web Security Suite (2.5) includes a feature that will prevent spyware from reporting back to the author.
“It stops the call-home process,” said Raimund Genes, European president of Trend Micro. “We will be able to highlight which computers are infected and provide a management report.”