Tag Archives: antivirus

According to an article on NetworkWorld, the top spam producing country in the world is none other than the United States. It seems hard to believe. Most people think spam comes from far away countries like Russia and China and …

October is National CyberSecurity Awareness month in the United States, and today’s blog post works right into that…by raising users’ awareness of how their actions contribute to systems security, you are also helping your users help you to reduce SPAM.

With all of the attention paid to spam prevention sometimes we forget that viruses and malware remain a strong threat to our business networks. Although in many cases spam and viruses go hand in hand, there are still some viruses …

Security experts have issued a warning about a new spam campaign using PDFs to spread malware. The email arrives with what looks like a note from a friend:           “Hey man… Remember all those long distance phone calls we made. …

Cloud computing is a popular topic these days.  One of the ways in which cloud computing is being delivered to businesses is by hosted email security services. A hosted email security provider offers antivirus and antispam protection for their customers …

I am currently involved in discussions with a client about the feasibility of moving their Exchange environment to a hosted email provider.  The client is considering it on the basis that it will reduce costs and improve the maintenance and …

On Monday, users of Norton Internet Security and Norton Antivirus started seeing firewall alerts warning them that an executable named PIFTS.exe was attempting to connect to stats.norton.com. Conspiracy theories immediately started to spread like wildfire. What exactly was PIFTS? Were …

Security experts say that the current financial crisis even has scammers worried. The recent rollercoaster on Wall Street has cybercriminals scrambling to find other sources of income believing their pool of targets is shrinking. Instead of going after banking information, …