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By Louise Hogan Wednesday January 04 2012 INTERNET fraudsters are going as far as translating scams into Irish in a bid to dupe unsuspecting web users. A new take on the common ‘Spanish Lottery’ spam mails has been detected by antivirus companies in recent days. Information technology expert Urban Schrott from ESET, an antivirus and [...]
Would you like an early preview of the 2012 version of G Data’s award-winning InternetSecurity software? G Data is inviting PC users to download the beta version of InternetSecurity 2012, a security solution that provides maximum virus detection rates, without compromising PC performance. PC users are encouraged to download the software and provide [...]
New Eset Smart Security v5 Screen shots, new version 5 to include * Parental Control * Impoved behavior analysis technology (monitoring) Quote: At CeBIT, ESET will offer sneak peek preview of the next generation of its flagship security solutions, ESET Smart Security 5, making the BETA version available for public testing in the first half [...]
Streaming sites operated by the BBC were hacked on Tuesday so they silently served visitors with malware, researchers from security firm Websense said. An iframe tag on the BBC’s 6 Music and 1Xtra websites injected an exploit that was housed on a website with an address ending in cc, a top level domain for the [...]
An update from AVG on Wednesday night rendered 64 bit Windows 7 systems unstable after it was applied. Several readers have been affected by the problem, which leaves machines in a continuous reboot loop. AVG has pulled the problem update (3292) and published an advisory apologising for the cock-up and providing instructions on how to [...]
Microsoft Ireland is warning its customers about a telephone scam in which fraudsters are trying to con victims into giving their credit card details. The fraudsters, who pretend to be from the software company’s technical support department, have been ringing households in recent weeks and telling householders that their computer has been infected with a [...]
An update to Kaspersky Labs’ enterprise anti-virus software inadvertently slowed Windows servers to a crawl, the Russian net security firm has admitted. Kaspersky has pulled the misfiring update and promised a review of its testing procedures to determine why the potential problem was not spotted prior to the release of the software. The snafu – [...]
By developing a security solution for Mac, ESET is responding to user demand. Since December 2009 when ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 (Beta) for Mac was released for public testing, ESET has seen more than 135-thousand downloaded installation packages. “With ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 Business Edition for Mac, ESET delivers the most advanced protection to all [...]
The Google Apps tool that synchronizes the hosted communication and collaboration suite with Outlook now works with the latest version of the Microsoft e-mail desktop software. Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook can now be used with the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Outlook 2010, Google announced Monday. This latest upgrade also lets Outlook users [...]
Indian security firm gets hefty cash injection.