Microsoft: Free Antivirus, Addresses Fake. Microsoft Antivirus Morrow . Microsoft is gearing up to take on Symantec and McAfee with a free anti-virus service for PCs, but will this lead to another antitrust case?. While Microsoft is busy going after a fake...

September, with a full-blown release by the end of the year. Based on a recent build, the site states that MSE will not be a "suite" like offerings provided by McAfee and Symantec, but rather a very basic form of anti-virus. Janice Chaffin, Symantec's Consumer...

country. Beginning July 1, the government would have the ability to update new PCs with a list of banned websites, and will refresh the list with new additions similar to distribution methods used by Symantec and McAfee. The proposed action has created a ton...

the government will have the ability to update new PCs with a list of banned websites, and will refresh the list with new additions similar to distribution methods used by Symantec and McAfee. “This is a very bad thing,” said Charles Mok, chairman of the...

reports that spam volume is climbing once again, and had reached an estimated 71 billion messages on Monday. Is that surprising? Certainly not. If it weren’t for spam, companies like Symantec and McAfee wouldn’t make money from anti-spam software. It’s...

Trojan Stealing Amazon, Symantec FTP Info. Trojan FTP Amazon Symantec. A trojan is collecting FTP information from popular websites such as Amazon, the BBC, Symantec, and more.. According to Jacques Erasmus, the CTO of security tools firm Prevx, he recently...

question if there are genuine attempts to actually crack down on spammers. After all, if spam were eliminated altogether, companies such as McAfee, Symantec and Computer Associates would have less to offer consumers. Many ISPs have implemented server-side spam...

machine. The 12 evaluated antivirus programs included Avast, AVG, BitDefender, ClamAV, CWSandbox, F-Prot, F-Secure, Kaspersky, McAfee, Norman Sandbox, Symantec and Trend Micro. Common sense suggests that two malware detection engines work better than just...

Intego VirusBarrier X5, available from the Apple Online Store * Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 11 for Macintosh, available from the Apple Online Store * McAfee VirusScan for Mac...