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About Helping Protect Files From Macro Viruses

A macro virus is a type of computer virus that's stored in a macro within a file, template, or add-in. To help protect against macro viruses, one should purchase and install specialized antivirus software. To further help reduce the risk of macro infection in Office files, set the macro security...

Tags: Macro Virus, Viruses And Worms, Security

White papers 2007-12-01

Love You Not 1.10 (Windows)

Love You Not! will intercept any request to execute all scripting file types used in email virus attacks. These include: Visual Basic scripts (.VBS, .VBE, .VB), Javascript (.JS, .JSE), Scrap objects (.SHS, .SHB), HTML application files (.HTA) and other potentially dangerous file types. Love You Not! also will increase the...

Tags: Macro Virus, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2001-05-13

Additional Resources

Coming in 2010: New Mac Office, and finally, Outlook

NG - New Graphics... LOLYes we have new icons and more memory hogging resources!Run out now and purchase, in reality Open Officedoes everything for no cost.;)I have yet to find the perfect email clientBut Outlook seems to handle large amounts of email better than most. People save email for years...

Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Viruses and worms, Microsoft Outlook, e-mail, virus

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

Battling for the Mother Of All Monopolies...

Despite their motto 'Don't Be Evil', Google appear to be making a pretty good effort at attempting to own your online data and computing world, and all at a low, no up front cost to you. The latest Google product, an operating system, adds to the already formidable...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Internet, Web Browsers, Thin Clients, Hardware, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Can Microsoft claw back lost market share from Apple?

Can Microsoft claw back lost market share from Apple?Yes, unless M$ shoots itself in the foot ...... by making W7 more expensive than Vista ... in which case Apple will have a field day :-(I can write the ad now.MAC Hello PC ... you're looking sad today.PC Yeh there's a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PC, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Malware-infected WinRAR distributed through Google AdWords

Malware-infected WinRAR distributed through Google AdWordsTime to use another search engine.Give those malware authors more work to get their goals accomplished.Or use 7zip. It has a RAR compressor in it so extraction isn't an issue.Just google searched it...Apparently google has already responded by disabling the ad's that normally display when...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Google Inc., advertisement, Google AdWords

Discussion threads 2009-01-20

Windows 7 as "Linux killer"? How times have changed!

Windows 7 as "Linux killer"? How times have changed!Is not any company "an underdog"when the competing product is free?Would not both Boeing and Airbus be "underdogs" if Tupolev were to give their airplanes away for free?Yes Microsoft and Apple even is the underdog here only in terms of cost: Microsoft...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, OPEN SOURCE, Windows adoption, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, netbook, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-11

WMP 12 toxic to certain MP3 files

WMP 12 toxic to certain MP3 filesIrony isthat even from your genuine sources you can't be sure it isn't compromised either! [url=http://www.securityfocus.com/news/480]Oops #1![/url][url=http://www.dgl.com/dglinfo/1996/dg961023.html]Oops #2![/url][url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/25/microsoft_security_fixes_infected/]Oops #3![/url]3 strikes you're out! LOL so much for "genuine". More like genuine hassle to run Windows! ]:)Re: What do I think:Foolish to use it as the...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, WMP, WMP 12, beta

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

Is there no end to the AutoRun madness?

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Roel Schouwenberg Let's skip any introduction and get straight to the point: We're currently facing a problem of epidemic proportions in malware that is spreading via removable devices. The U.S. army's recent...

Tags: Floppy Disk, Malware, Microsoft Corp., USB, Virus, AutoRun, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Apple fixes 12 Safari security flaws

Apple fixes 12 Safari security flawsApple engineers are an odd bunchApple zealots praise Apple because Apple releases a patch [b]as soon as it is ready[/b] instead of waiting until they can bundle it up in a package that is more convenient to end users. What I find interesting about Apple...

Tags: Viruses and worms, Patches, SAY IT, Apple Inc., Apple fixes 12 Safari security flaw, Apple fixes 12 Safari, Apple Fixes, security flaw, security, Apple Macintosh, Apple Engineers, flaw

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

Debunking yet another bogus malware study

Debunking yet another bogus malware studyExcellent analysisI guess that people have come to expect bad news so much that journalists no longer verify their sources; if it's bad news about computer threats, it must be true.To be fair, this sort of problem (relying on bad sources that themselves rely on...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, bogus malware, malware, OECD, Microsoft Windows XP, spyware

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

Malware shipped with Firefox 2 language pack

Malware shipped with Firefox 2 language packif "language pack" is open source? Why they didn't catch it? :-)if "language pack" is open source? Why they didn't catch it? :-)if "language pack" is open source, why they didn't catch it?if "language pack" is open source, why they didn't catch it?if "language...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Mozilla Firefox, language pack, open source, malware

Discussion threads 2008-05-08

Mozilla spreads malware rather than security

Mozilla spreads malware rather than securityyet another demostration that open source code is NOT safer than closedyet another demostration that open source code is NOT safer than closedSh*t happens....There is no absolute security in computing. And there never will be. Not even when you are running Linux (safe from viruses,...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Web browsers, Murderers, security, Mozilla Corp., malware, virus, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-05-08

Anti-virus & Trojan 7.65 (Windows)

Detect and eliminate viruses, Trojans, and macro viruses, even new and unknown ones on your PC. Anti-Virus and Trojan initiated a system named Guard Ghost to supervise all running processes in the memory system, Windows files, and open ports to search worms and Trojan horses. Once a virus or Trojan...

Tags: Antivirus, Trojan Horse, Microsoft Windows, YOUR-SOFT, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2008-02-29

Talking malware with Eugene Kaspersky

MOSCOW -- Amidst growing chatter that the anti-virus/anti-spyware market is gasping for air, a veteran virus fighter says desktop security products must add new protection mechanisms to keep pace with aggressive online criminals. Eugene Kaspersky, founder/CEO of 10-year-old Kaspersky Lab, says next-generation anti-malware...

Tags: Kaspersky Lab, Malware, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-12-07

Macro Security Levels

The following information summarizes how macro (macro: An action or a set of actions one can use to automate tasks. Macros are recorded in the Visual Basic for Applications programming language.) virus protection works under each setting on the Security Level tab in the Security dialog box (Tools menu, Macro...

Tags: Macro, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms

White papers 2007-12-01

Who should bear the burden of de-fanging botnets?

* Ryan Naraine is on vacation.  Guest Editorial by Dr. Adam J. O'Donnell If you are even peripherally familiar with modern computer security issues, you have heard about the current struggle to identify and repair botnet drones. These botnet networks are the primary...

Tags: Service Provider, Business Services, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-11-26

Commonwealth Bank CIO: Michael Harte - Transcript

ZDNet Australia: Welcome to the CIO Vision Series, where we have with us as our guest Michael Harte of Commonwealth Bank. Thank you Michael, for joining us today. What technologies are you particularly excited about? Harte: We’re a very diversified financial services group, and we cover...

Tags: Software, Bank, Financial, Information Technology, Banking, Customer, Business, Outsourcing, Technology, Tool, Productivity, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Management, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2007-10-30

The real question about Mac security

The real question about Mac securityNext place over and wake the dormouseI'm a Mac user and I'm a tad skeptical as to how diligent we are. Mr. Gruber, who I think says a lot of insightful things, may have been talking about the Apple independent developer world and there, he...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Mac Community, malware

Discussion threads 2007-08-22

How data gets lost

How data gets lostOne of the most frequent data loss problemsOne of the most frequent data loss problems that people come to me with: after working for hours on an Excel spreadsheet or Powerpoint slide deck, they get in a hurry when closing the file and hit the "No" button...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, hard drive, malware

Discussion threads 2007-08-07