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- Two-Layer Network Design by Branch-and-Cut Featuring MIP-Based Heuristics
- This paper deals with MIP-based primal heuristics to be used within a branch-and-cut approach for solving multi-layer telecommunication network design problems. Based on a mixed-integer programming formulation for two network layers, the paper presents three heuristics for solving important subproblems, two of which solve a sub-MIP. On multi-layer planning instances...
- Tags: Heuristics, Network, Networking, Telephony, Network Administration
- White papers 2007-02-12
- An Evaluation of Heuristics for SLA Based Parallel Job Scheduling
- In the context of SLA based job scheduling for high performance grid computing, this paper investigates the behaviour of various scheduling heuristics to schedule SLA-bounded jobs onto a parallel computing resource. The key objective of this investigation is to evaluate the effectiveness of simple scheduling heuristics using as criteria the...
- Tags: Job, Heuristics, SLA, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Bagle virus makes a return
- Bagle virus makes a returnExtra! Extra!!!!Hate to break the news, Baby, but Bagle never left. It's been hammering my filters nonstop from the beginning, and the filter log every month shows hundreds of the suckers heading off to that Big Bagle Oven in /dev/null.Stop making excusesOK, enough is...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, virus, heuristics, Bagle virus, flaw rate, antivirus, software
- Discussion threads 2005-01-27
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- Trend Micro Internet Security 2009
- Trend Micro Internet Security has made significant gains since last year, although most are under the hood. Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 is a bare-bones, just the essentials, basic Internet Security suite offering antivirus, antispam, antiphishing, and a two-way firewall. Parental Controls are built-in, not optional. In terms of performance,...
- Tags: INTERNET, Phishing, Network security, SECURITY, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Home Network Feature, Pro Version, Trend Micro Internet Security, Trend Micro Inc., Trend Micro Internet Security 2009, Internet security
- Product reviews 2008-09-25
- The layered approach ... my wish for a future OS
- The layered approach ... my wish for a future OSSounds a lot like BSD to me....BSD (and therefore Mac OS/X) has much the same structure as the one you describe. Indeed this structure has some inherent advantages.However, in practice BSD doesn't have a stability or reliability advantage over Linux. Linux...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, OS Model, operating system, BSD
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position
- Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products, McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found, and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own products : "A recent...
- Tags: Software, McAfee Inc., Antivirus, Vulnerability, Vendor, Flaw, N.Runs, Dancho, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- TrueProtection Personal Edition (exe)
- TrueProtection Personal Edition eliminates spyware, viruses, and malware by preventing the initial infection combined with excellent cleanup capabilities to remove even the most stubborn spyware infections. TrueProtection Personal Edition does not rely on dated technologies such as definitions or heuristics to protect you as these methods often fail to truly...
- Tags: Infection, Malware, TrueProtection Software, TrueProtection Personal Edition, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Security, Viruses And Worms
- Software downloads 2008-06-12
- F-Prot Antivirus for Windows (msi)
- F-PROT Antivirus for Windows is one of the leading antivirus software applications on the market today. Built on the award-winning F-PROT Antivirus scanning engine, F-PROT Antivirus is renowned for its reliability, ease of use, fast scanning and exceptionally low resource consumption. New and unknown threats are detected with advanced heuristics...
- Tags: FRISK Software, Antivirus Software, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-06-09
- WordsEx (zip)
- Words Extended is a powerful Internet text information discovery, retrieval, extraction, and display tool, and contains the epochal denouement of the Book of Revelation. Ranking heuristics speed you to the choicest information. Minimal motion right hand operation, smooth scrolling and big fonts make it easy. This version is the first...
- Tags: Words Extended, Internet, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-02-08
- Secure ripping from "episodic DVDs" described in just-published Microsoft patent app
- A major new Microsoft Patent application entitled DVD identification and managed copy authorization describes and illustrates a secure manner in which DVDs could be enabled for "ripping" of selected sections of media. In other words, and as Paragraph 44 of this app...
- Tags: Consumer, Multimedia, Authorization, Activation, Content Provider, Client, Information, Microsoft Corp., Copy, Copy Service, Identification Response, FIG, Authorization Service, Method 1000, Method 1100, Method 1200, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- An Efficient Filter for Denial-of-Service Bandwidth Attacks
- This paper presents an efficient method for detecting and filtering denial-of-service bandwidth attacks. The system called TOPS Tabulated Online Packet Statistics can monitor a large number of network addresses in a compact, fixed-size structure using several effective heuristics. The paper demonstrates that TOPS can detect bandwidth attacks in a standard...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, University Of Melbourne, Attack, Bandwidth Attack, Security
- White papers 2008-01-01
- PARNIDS: A Scalable Network Intrusion Detection Loadbalancer
- Network Intrusion Detection Systems NIDS are becoming an increasingly important security measure. With rapidly increasing network speeds, the capacity of the NIDS sensor can limit the ability of the system to detect intrusions. The PARNIDS parallel NIDS architecture overcomes this limitation by distributing network traffic load over an array of...
- Tags: Network Intrusion Detection System, Network, Intrusion Detection System, Network Intrusion Detection, Memoryhole.net, Intrusion Detection, Networking, Security
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Little Intelligent Antivirus (exe)
- LIA Little Intelligent Antivirus is a new antivirus scanning engine developed in over 14 months by Corbitek Software. Although at the begining, it has most of the more "grown-up" antivirus characteristics such as Detection of new, unknown THREATS (not only viruses, but also trojans, spyware, adware and other threats) using...
- Tags: Antivirus, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Security
- Software downloads 2007-12-19
- McAfee Internet Security Suite 2008 - complete package
- At first glance, McAfee Internet Security 2008 appears not much different from last year's offering. But with a decisive change in the competitive landscape (i.e. Symantec's skip and stumble), McAfee's suite comes out looking much better this year. Whereas McAfee VirusScan 2008 looks and feels like warmed-over last year's product,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Network security, McAfee Inc., Norton Co., McAfee Internet Security
- Product reviews 2007-11-26
- TrustDefender Gold Edition (exe)
- TrustDefender is designed to protect your computer from attack by Online Criminals, identify and stop unknown software or crimeware, ensuring that your computer is Safe&Secure during an online business session or banking transaction. TrustDefenders Safe&Secure mode does not rely on blacklists or heuristics and uses a whitelist approach to protect...
- Tags: Security Solution, Computer, TrustDefender, Productivity, Rootkits, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware
- Software downloads 2007-11-23
- Why spam can only be managed, not ended
- Years ago when I was still a bit more naive, I thought we could end the spam dilemma if we would simply implement domain-level sender authentication using digital signatures. In fact when David Berlind wrote "Why spam could destroy the Internet" in November 2002, Berlind quoted me saying that every...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Difference, Bottom Line, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008 - complete package
- Many of improvements within McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008 are in the code, which is where you want them to be. McAfee has gone ahead with a silly marketing campaign emphasizing that it alone will protect your desktop, protect your Web browsing with Site Advisor, and will also protect your mobile...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Kaspersky, McAfee Inc., McAfee VirusScan
- Product reviews 2007-10-11
- Trend Micro Antivirus plus Antispyware 2008
- Trend Micro Antivirus and Antispyware has made gains since last year, introducing a number of features in its 2008 model that are useful in both the home and small office. Aside from the intuitive interface, Trend Micro provides a number of configuration options that allow the user to control the...
- Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Kaspersky, Trend Micro Inc., Trend Micro Antivirus, Antispyware 2008, anti-spyware, antivirus
- Product reviews 2007-09-26
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7
- Photo gallery:Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7Last year's CNET Editors' Choice award winner Kaspersky returns with another winner. Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7 features a new interface and new protection. But, unlike last year, the competition for Editors' Choice in this space was fierce with several worthy contenders all bunching toward the top of...
- Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Kaspersky, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7, antivirus
- Product reviews 2007-09-05
- Details of anti-phish detection technology revealed in Microsoft Patent app
- A Microsoft Patent application has just been published that goes into intricate detail about anti-phishing "predictive model" technology incorporated into Outlook and Outlook Express or providable to third-party providers.The app is entitled "Finding phishing sites." The Patent literature is arguably the most thorough description of how Microsoft email software attempts...
- Tags: Message, Report, Microsoft Corp., Phishing, Site, Web Browser, User, Host, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
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