The biggest issue customers have is with zero-day attacks. In the case of this virus, there was plenty of warning and time for users to have their antivirus updated and systems protected.
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They have a number of different code bases, which can be hard to manage, ... They need a product that brings together their antivirus, configuration management, personal firewall and intrusion-protection technologies.
This worm is not new but it continues to spread and has a damaging payload. We want to urge all computer users to update their antivirus protection before the first trigger date on 3 February.
It is a mistake to assume that the same approach for protecting endpoints using host-based antivirus protection is the same approach that is needed for mobile devices.
When I first entered the antivirus industry, updates were sent out on a 5.25-inch floppy disk. A lot has changed in that time.
There's a lesson for the general public here too. Always keep your antivirus software up to date and don't be too quick to believe everything you receive via e-mail.
We do have it on our watch list of viruses that may become an issue. As always, we recommend that customers get their antivirus software updated.
By incorporating intrusion prevention and antivirus into the VPN-1 Edge series of integrated security appliances, we are providing Unified Threat Management for branch offices just as we did with Check Point Express CI for medium businesses. In addition, only Check Point's unified security architecture delivers preemptive protection everywhere - from the laptop to the internal network to the perimeter to the remote office. With these new enhancements, customers are assured of a consistent security policy throughout the organization - something needed in today's regulated environment.
There are some phishing Web sites that are going to be there for two weeks and others that will be there for a few hours. Signature-based antivirus is totally at the mercy of when the virus is identified to when it is inoculated against -- that is a huge issue. With the constant threat of zero day attacks, signatures can't carry us forward,
These actions are financially motivated and aim to exploit the popularity of these search engines to increase visits to the pages with the altered results. To avoid this kind of attack, it is vital that users have reliable antivirus protection and keep their systems up-to-date, as the vulnerabilities used have often been in existence for some time.
Conceptually, both (antispam and antivirus) are trying to control e-mail coming in and out through policies,
It got a lot of media attention because of the name and the illicit material, but it did not get attention from the major antivirus companies. We kept the threat level low.
If you don't have antivirus, get some. If you have some, ensure it's up to date and clean up your computer.
It could be that more people are using broadband, and that home users are worse at updating their antivirus software,