Stories about: Sophos Anti-Virus

Skype-blocking companies have been scrambling to update their products after the recent release of a new version of the software that is even harder to detect and block.

Viruses and spam both pose an increasing threat these days, and not just to your data or productivity. Rather than hackers trying to break security systems for their own amusement, most current threats are financially motivated and can cost a company millions. And with viruses and phishing attacks growing increasingly more criminal in intention every day, securing financial, customer, and other critical data requires a rock-solid system of defense.

Sophos has announced it has added an application-control feature to its antivirus product that blocks the use of unauthorized VOIP, peer-to-peer and instant messaging applications on Windows desktops.

Serious vulnerabilities have popped up in several popular security software tools in the past week, namely Sophos Anti-Virus, ClamAV and the network protocol scanner Ethereal. The flaws could allow complete system takeover, according to researchers.

Messaging vendors have flocked to the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week to announce products designed to help enterprises protect themselves from e-mail threats.

Antivirus software company Sophos said on Thursday that it is joining Cisco Systems's Network Admission Control (NAC) program, according to a statement.

Microsoft has issued a patch for a compatibility problem between the recent Windows XP Service Pack 2 and an advertising application run on many user's machines.

The immediate threat of MyDoom.O may have tailed off, but security researchers say the worm's author is already exploiting a backdoor installed by MyDoom.O to launch further attacks.

Zone Labs is introducing a new version of its security software that increases the types of 802.1x wireless devices that it supports to include handhelds and phones, letting customers ensure specified security measures are in place before those devices are allowed wireless network access.

Security, according to Helen Keller, is a superstition. It's found nowhere in nature, but we keep trying to achieve it, and there are many products on the market to help us. The most common - firewalls - are widely installed and continue to evolve with features and functionality.

Security experts around the world are warning of a new virus that uses Microsoft Outlook e-mail software to replicate itself by sending out mass e-mails that may destroy some Windows files.