Article: Color Me Complex
Information Security Mag has an article by Ed Skoudis and Matt Carpenter in which they do a bake off between several endpoint protection products....
View ArticleYet Another SEP11 problem
I wrote last week how my Vista tablet cratered shortly after I installed Symantec Endpoint Protection 11. I’ve rebuilt that computer, and decided not to do any more testing with SEP for a while. If I...
View ArticleSophos Endpoint Security Eval Thoughts
This week I began a evaluation of Sophos Endpoint security. (why do I get the feeling all over the country sales guys just perked up and began repeating “sales lead” to themselves). Currently we’re...
View ArticleAV-Comparatives Performance Test
AV-Comparatives has released a test report comparing antivirus performance during boot, file copy and file compression. To access the report, go to av-comparatives.org, click on Comparatives, and...
View ArticleKaspersky and csshover.htc Possible False Positive?
This morning Kaspersky is detecting Downloader.JS.Iframe.aqo in csshover.htc on a few different websites. Seems to be a false positive. Virustotal shows the following: File csshover.htc received on...
View ArticleAVComparatives Corporate Review
AVComparatives has posted a review of corporate products at http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/corporate-reviews. This test includes AVIRA, ESET, GDATA, Kaspersky, Sophos, Symantec and...
View ArticleComcast to warn of infected machines
This week numerous sources reported on news that Comcast will deliver popups to alert customers with infected machines. I agree with Phil Lin, marketing director at network security firm FireEye Inc as...
View ArticleStaging Virus Definition Updates
In the wake of McAfee’s false positive that rendered Windows XP computers unbootable there has been a lot of talk. What I wanted to talk about today was the staging of virus definition updates. I saw a...
View ArticleFake AV on Drudge
I was over at the Drudge Report last night and finally saw a fake antivirus social engineering attempt there. I’d heard before that the ads on drudge often served that up, but it was the first time I...
View ArticleNitro and Q1Labs Sold
McAfee to Aquire NitroSecurity. IBM to aquire Q1Labs. Can anyone think of an example where a big company bought a smaller security company and the product got better? We could spend the reset of the...
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