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Sophos Threat Detection Test by Sophos Inc.
  • Find threats your anti-virus missed
The test utilizes award-winning Sophos Anti-Virus detection, certified by ICSA Labs, West Coast Labs, and Virus Bulletin.

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Managed Office Protection: Switching from AV to SaaS by Panda Software
Antivirus products require too much time and effort for small and mid-sized companies. Security as a Service (SaaS) means delivering traditional security...
Whitelisting Your Way to NERC CIP Compliance by Bit9, Inc.
Unauthorized software can compromise the security and stability of the country's utilities systems. Join us for this Web seminar where we will share best practices for...
Endpoint Assessment Test by Sophos Inc.
The Endpoint Assessment Test is a free tool that scans a computer and assesses whether it is a security risk to your organization. Download it and discover the risks that your company's...
Free Trial of Sophos Enterprise Solutions by Sophos Inc.
Try Enterprise Security and Control for 30 days. Experience the strength and simplicity of our Enterprise Security and Control range. Free 30-day...
Top Benefits of Symantec Protection Suite by Symantec Corporation
Anti-virus is not enough to protect your organization. Symantec now offers multi-layered protection from endpoint to gateway in the new Symantec Protection Suite. Download this paper to find out 10 reasons that this new...
Presentation Transcript: Endpoint security fundamentals by Sophos Inc.
This presentation transcript, taken from the video of the same name, offers a "back-to-basics" look at endpoint security and helps you identify the truly critical components of an enterprise client security program, especially when budgets...
Global Best Practices in Email Security, Privacy and Compliance by Proofpoint, Inc.
A new generation of email security solutions is needed to meet the challenges of growing message traffic, rapidly-evolving security threats and increasingly complex data protection and privacy regulations. This paper examines such a solution. A new generation...
Understanding the Total Cost of Ownership for Endpoint Security Solutions by Sophos Inc.
issue, Sophos commissioned an independent research study to quantify all of the cost areas involved in migrating to an endpoint security product and managing that solution afterward to create a TCO comparison. Organizations considering moving to an endpoint...
Active Anti-Malware Protection: Self-Defending IronKey Flash Drives Stop MalWare and Viruses from Spreading to Computers and Networks by IronKey
to firmware to services - is able to deliver a complete range of anti-malware controls down to the hardware level. Conventional USB flash drives and other removable storage devices can allow viruses, worms and other malicious code to penetrate the IT system. Only...
Top Five Strategies for Combating Modern Threats - Is Anti-virus Dead? by Sophos Inc.
Read this whitepaper to learn about the security implications of modern threats, where emerging technologies can add real value, and five key strategies for ensuring solid malware protection. The corporate IT environment has changed irrevocably...
HP StorageWorks tape and disk-to-disk data protection by Hewlett-Packard Company
HP protects the integrity of your data and helps you regain access to it. We have a range of change-ready, cost-effective, and trusted solutions that provide the...
Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms by Sophos Inc.
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms assesses a company's ability to execute and its completeness of vision. According to Gartner, Sophos continues to have a strong reputation for support and service...
Always On - Realtime Security Technology by McAfee, Inc.
This webcast discusses the current state of malware protection and the importance of reducing the "protection gap" and explains how Artemis Technology signifcantly reduces that gap...
Protection in Numbers with the WebPulse Community Watch Cloud Service by Blue Coat
Web malware has changed the playing field making traditional URL filtering and anti-virus solutions with daily updates less effective. Learn why and what you should change in this valuable webinar...
State of the Internet Security: Protecting Business Email by Webroot Software, Inc.
The report discusses these attacks in-depth while also offering helpful information on legal compliance, internal sabotage and the type of protection you need to keep your business safe from attack. Business dependence on email is greater than...
Laying the IT Security Foundation - Corralling Conficker and Other Threats in an Evolved Environment by Lumension
By managing your critical risks, you can prevent threats such as Conflicker. Not too long ago the battle for the security of the enterprise was fought and won over the operating system. Whoever controlled the OS had the best access to systems across the network and data it...
10 Things to Consider When Protecting Your Exchange Server by AppAssure Software
Without doing so, your business can suffer through a prolonged outage. Protect the entire system by continually protecting your O/S, application and the data. Standard backup tools do not protect all three entities in unison. Protecting the entire system will...
Quest Software Finds Increased Security, Disaster Preparedness, and Cost Savings through Virtual Desktop Infrastructure by Quest Software
of these unattended, remotely accessed machines.”

Another concern of Quest was the vulnerability of un-patched machines and inactive or outdated virus protection.

After evaluating a number of VDI solutions, Quest was most impressed with vWorkspace, one of its own applications that...
Preparing for Tomorrow's Threat Today: What We Can Learn from the History of Malware and Defenses by Global Knowledge
and glory. Attack vectors of the 21st century have changed; now, many attacks are financial in nature. Current FBI estimates indicate that malicious software and attacks targeting identity theft cost American businesses and consumers more than $50 billion a year. Yesterday's...
Assessing Endpoint Security Solutions: Why Detection Rates Aren't Enough by Sophos Inc.
This paper highlights the pitfalls of simply looking at virus detection rates and investigates the effect of the rapidly developing IT environment and fast-moving threat landscape on assessment...
The CIO's Guide to Mobile Security by BlackBerry
Today's enterprise and government organizations increasingly support the use of mobile (wireless) devices by their employees. At the same...
Forecasting Clear Skies Ahead - Dynamic Whitelisting for the Strongest and Most Effective Protection by Solidcore Systems
This paper will examine the truths about application whitelisting and illustrate that not all approaches provide the same benefits. Understanding these differences will help to...
Security Behind BlackBerry by BlackBerry
Download this white paper and gain a better understanding of the security tools that come preinstalled with the Blackberry solution and discover...
The Value of Integrated Security by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Security breaches can attack a company from a wide range of sources, including the company's own networked PCs and servers. This paper explains how Cisco is merging innovative network security technology with more than 20 years of...
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Experts fear big implications for Windows flaw by Joan Goodchild, News Writer
Windows managers to apply the latest Microsoft patches quickly since it affects two of the most widely used Microsoft products: Outlook and Exchange.

The paramount concern is the critical TNEF (Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format) flaw addressed in MS06-003. If a hacker finds a way to take advantage... More...

Jan 16, 2006
Crafty spammers hiding behind HTTPS by Benjamin Vigil, Technical Editor
to my fight against spam is the increased technological sophistication of spammers," said William Plante, director of worldwide security and brand protection at Symantec. "Our first goal, of course, is to block spam, but after that, we want to know where it is coming from, and spammers are becoming better adept... More...
Aug 1, 2004
Is Exchange 2003 cluster virtualization a good move? by Peter terSteeg
We are planning on consolidating numerous dispersed Exchange 2003 servers into three CONUS locations, and implementing clustering with databases on a SAN in order to have high mailbox availability. We also intend to utilize multiple storage groups with multiple... More...
Nov 21, 2005
Politicians form transatlantic spam alliance
The British Parliament and the U.S. Congress say they will work together to help tackle the e-mail spam problem through legislation and cooperation. The groups tasked with jointly combating... More...
Mar 29, 2005
Exchange 2003 Events and Errors by Scott Schnoll
is capable of logging thousands of different events, making it impossible to become familiar with all of them. Depending on the event and the diagnostic logging level you have configured, some Exchange events will be self-explanatory while others will appear to require a crack team of decoders to... More...
Apr 16, 2004
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How to protect your e-mail client with layers by Richard Luckett
What is the best way to prevent spam, forged e-mails and scam e-mails from entering our Outlook 2000 inbox? Our company outsources its e-mail and we access/send e-mails using POP3 and SMTP. Any... More...
Dec 8, 2004
Repercussions of blocking .PIF attachments by Richard Luckett
What problems would I cause if I stopped my Exchange 2000 server from receiving e-mails with .PIF attachments -- I have NAI antivirus software which updates DATs every day. PIF, or program information files, are used as "Shortcut" files. In the case of Microsoft DOS applications... More...
Jul 21, 2005
Informing an infected sender by Richard Luckett

VIEW MEMBER FEEDBACK TO THIS ASK THE EXPERT Q&A.

Assuming it is a legitimate e-mail address that has inadvertently sent a virus that was not caught by the sender's antivirus software, I think it is within reason to simply reply to the individual with a notification. In fact, there are some corporate antivirus... More...

Jun 10, 2005
Antivirus interfering with a program installation by Richard Luckett
as a virus because of the large amount of data that the setup.exe process is copying to your hard drive. So, in a way, it is doing what you want it to do.

In summary, turn off your antivirus software during the installation. After the installation completes, you can turn antivirus scanning back on.

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May 12, 2005
Track IP address of virus sender's system by Richard Luckett
us know. Related information from SearchExchange.com:

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Learn the tools you need to track an IP address of a virus sender's system... More...

Jan 16, 2006