Anti Virus Blog

InfoWorld has an in depth article about enterprise spyware including reviews of 10 applications. F-Secure Anti-Virus Client Security 6 and Webroot Spy Sweeper Enterprise 2.5 come out on top of a strong field of competitors.

Whether you call it adware, malware, or spyware, these malicious programs are not only capable of tracking where a user goes on the Internet, but they’re capturing sensitive information such as user names, passwords, and customer data, such as credit card information.

Fortunately, vendors are working to provide smarter and better antispyware tools to help protect against these digital sneak attacks. I recently took ten enterprise antispyware operatives and put them through a series of real-world tests to see how good they are at intercepting malicious programs and protecting end-users computers and sensitive company information.

Hackers are beginning to attack applications on desktops rather than making multipurpose attacks on enterprise perimeters, according to a new report that analysed the source of Internet threats in the world between January 1 to June 30, 2005.

The Internet Security Threat Report, provided by Symantec, which provides security solutions for individuals and enterprises, also reveals that there is a rise in the exposure of confidential information, resulting in significant financial loss, particularly if credit card information or banking details are exposed.

These are also worrying, since online shopping and Internet banking are on the rise, and during the first half of 2005, malicious code that exposed confidential information represented 74 percent of the top 50 malicious code samples reported by Symantec, up from 54 percent in the previous six months.

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SurfControl announced the Company’s Internet Threat Database — a core component of SurfControl’s Adaptive Threat Intelligence(TM) Service — has grown to more than 12 million URLs. SurfControl has added more than one million new URLs over the past 30 days. This growth has been driven by the increasing use of blended internet threats by cyber criminals. Deployed in conjunction with the SurfControl Enterprise Protection Suite, SurfControl’s Internet Threat Database is the most accurate, current and relevant set of URLs that helps protect enterprises against data theft, productivity loss, legal liability risks and network abuse.

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