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- Flawed Symantec update cripples Chinese PCs
- Flawed Symantec update cripples Chinese PCsBloatwareJust installing Symantec on your PC will Cripple it. Removed it from my machines at work years ago.Told ya so!Symantec *is* the malware, not the remover.Symantec is junkI stopped using Norton 2 years ago and have never looked back. Been using kaspersky ever since....
- Tags: SECURITY, Cyberthreats, problem domain, Norton AV, Norton Co., Symantec Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-24
- Symantec: SaaS efforts revving
- Symantec said its software as a service SaaS product will go live later this year. Symantec CEO John Thompson said on the companys fiscal fourth quarter earnings conference call that its Symantec Protection Network, its first SaaS offering, is on...
- Tags: Symantec, Storage, Software Infrastructure, Security, SaaS, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Symantec: Vista's UAC prompts can't always be trusted
- Microsofts implementation of the UAC user account control mechanism in Windows Vista continues to take a beating from security researchers. Less than a week after Polish hacker Joanna Rutkowska raised an alert for design -- and implementation -- bugs in the default no-admin component, a member of Symantecs Advanced...
- Tags: Black Hat, Data theft, Exploit code, Hackers, Microsoft, Pen testing, Punditocracy, Responsible disclosure, Uncategorized, Vulnerability research, Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Another Malware protection engine becomes Malware enabler engine
- Nearly three months after being first released to the business market, Vista had a near perfect track record excluding a design weakness in voice against remote exploits until this Tuesday. Ironically the culprit happens to be Microsofts Malware Protection which is used in all of Microsofts antivirus products including...
- Tags: Vista, Desktop, Security
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- News to know: Microsoft security; Sun's rapid patch; Vista clean install
- Notable headlines:Hacker, Microsoft duke it out over Vista design flaw. What the UAC hole is really about. Sun rushes out patch for Solaris Telnet exploit.Patch Day coverage:Microsoft’s Patch Day: Is there a better way?MS Patch Tuesday: 12 bulletins, 6 critical, 20 vulnerabilities. No Vista fixes in Microsofts dirty dozen. Vista...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- Symantec CIO David Thompson talks ERP, security
- Enterprise resource planning implementations are never easy. In fact, its the equivalent of corporate open heart surgery. And often theres a financial hit if things dont go well. Symantec recently discussed a few hiccups in its ERP deployment that hurt the companys quarter. The...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, Security, Oracle, Symantec, ERP, Symantec Corp., Thompson
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- CA's SAP rollout chugging along
- Funny how Symantecs botched ERP implementation now sparks questions for any other company--this time CA--rolling out new enterprise applications. On CAs quarterly earnings conference call Thursday, a Wall Street analyst asked the software company how it was managing its ERP...
- Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Computer Associates International Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- MS Word zero-day attack video
- What does a targeted Microsoft Word zero-day attack look like? A quick flicker when the .doc is opened is sometimes the only thing youll see.Symantecs security response team has created a video of a targeted Microsoft Word zero-day attack in action, showing how its near impossible to know if...
- Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Spam and Phishing, Zero-day attacks
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- News to know: Inside MySpace's IT; Oracle patches; Jobs is a $20B asset
- Notable headlines:Small drives cross performance threshold.AOL phisher faces up to 101 years in prison.Inside MySpace.coms IT: Booming traffic demands put a constant stress on the social networks computing infrastructure. Yet, MySpace developers have repeatedly redesigned the Web site software, database and storage systems in an attempt to keep pace with...
- Tags: General, information technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
- Symantec stumbles amid customer deferrals, ERP installation
- Symantecs fiscal third and fourth quarter results will fall short of expectations because of a combination of factors: --Weak performance in the companys data center management business, notable the company acquired when it bought Veritas;--Higher deferrals of enterprise maintenance...
- Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Security, Symantec, ERP
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- Skype Trojan Horse on the loose, but removal's easy
- A Trojan Horse is out there in the whild that kicks in when a Skype user gets a message containing a file named sp.exe. Heres the report from Websense Security Labs:Yesterday Websense Security Labs reported on our blog that there was a potential Worm propagating via Skype (see: http://www.websense.com/securitylabs/blog/blog.php?BlogID=101)....
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A., trojan horse
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- News to know: Google auditions radio talent, Vista randomization
- The key headlines of the day:Google Ad Creation Marketplace auditioning radio talent: Exclusive First LookWindows Vista Randomization Gets OEM Thumbs UpProfits rise at Microsoft joint venture.Building better mosquitoes.Mark Cuban studies Googlenomics.A lot of Skype news. From David Berlinds Testbed:Another nail in the coffin for the Baby Bells? Skype offers unlimited...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Skype Technologies S.A., radio talent, talent, radio
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- Security rivals shut out of Microsoft meeting
- Security rivals shut out of Microsoft meetingHey ... Rockhead ...... If you needed to communicate something like this to someone, and it was worth BILLION$ in PR expenses and spin and damage control if you got it wrong, would YOU depend on some frakking computer running Windows?I wouldn't even use...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Network security, security, Microsoft Corp., McAfee Inc., Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Symantec Corp., Security rival
- Discussion threads 2006-10-19
- Vista Mythbusters #7: How much DRM is too much?
- Myth: Windows Vista is loaded with new forms of digital rights management DRM that will make the Vista experience more frustrating than ever.Reality: A new code-checking subsystem that protects the Windows Vista kernel and signed drivers is arguably a new form of DRM. How well will it perform in the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Corio:Code Integrity, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- Gamers drive blue laser market
- Gamers drive blue laser marketMarket ignoring XboxXbox is single CPU technology. This makes little sense in a multicore world where the new Intel and AMD chips execute threads on multiple CPUs in multiple cores. Think of downloading graphics while playing. On Xbox the download processing takes from the single CPU....
- Tags: Game players, Xbox CPU, Microsoft Xbox, laser
- Discussion threads 2006-07-13
- Vista won't show fancy side to pirates
- Vista won't show fancy side to piratesNow who's spreading the FUD?WFW 3.1? PUHLEASSSE!!!Windows XP only has two things over Linux today. Ease of obscure driver installation (sorry, but common drivers are easier on Linux) and scope of desktop applications. If you are comparing kernels and GUI's only, KDE + any...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Windows XP Only, Linux, desktop, KDE, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, GUI, Microsoft Windows XP, LINUX IS, operating system
- Discussion threads 2006-04-13
- Microsoft's OneCare firewall draws fire
- Microsoft's OneCare firewall draws fireMicrosoft's OneCare firewall draws fireIts beta, what did they expect? Of course security always comes down to your trade-offs for ease of use. Its all configurable anyway so this isn't an issue to begin with. Another case of the mountain out of an...
- Tags: Firewalls, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Network security, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, firewall, malware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft OneCare
- Discussion threads 2006-02-01
- Symantec to change consumer product launches
- Symantec to change consumer product launchesIt will cement their reputation anyway....Wow, they may as well just drop their entire Quality control Dept. too! Has anyone had an Symantec Enterprise product release major or minor that worked first time? Symantecs propensity to rush Software out after Marketing's through with it, before...
- Tags: Quality, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Symantec Corp., quality control, software
- Discussion threads 2005-07-29
- VMware unphased by Vanderpool, Xen virtualization techs
- VMware unphased by Vanderpool, Xen virtualization techsFix your headingShouldn't that be "unfazed" (http://www.answers.com/unfazed&r=67)?And another thing...I think you meant "Linux is faring...". I'm not sure what "fairing" means in this context. Or any context.Soundalike ?I think you meant to say "VMware unfazed ..." ?Symantecs or symanticsVmWare is PHASE-ing (as in STAR...
- Tags: Vanderpool, VMware Inc., Xen
- Discussion threads 2005-02-16
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