From the Suspect This May Be Wishful Thinking Dept Japan, South Korea and China are set to agree to jointly develop a new computer operating system as an alternative to Microsoft Corp.’s Windows software, Reuters quotes Japanese media as saying on Sunday. It would likely be built upon an open-source operating system, such as … Read more
I should have known, given the whole virus thing is big business, that if one company announces a new product, its rival down the street isn’t likely to stay silent. Hot on the heels (or maybe before, who knows) of McAfee’s upgrade to its VirusScan, Symantec Corp.announced Norton AntiVirus 2004, although tellingly it’s not ‘widely … Read more
McAfee today have unveiled a new version of McAfee VirusScan, equipped with new features including an enhanced WormStopper, which automatically detects and alerts users when their systems are attempting to send email to an unusually large number of addresses. It also alerts users when the system attempts to send out too many single emails within … Read more
As if to reinforce my impression that X1 is grabbing the indexing and searching space once the preserve of Enfish, the Idealab company has just launched a beta edition of its next version. The full version should be out soon. New features: * Improved Attachments tab (for Outlook and Eudora users only) * Improved Eudora … Read more
MessageLabs, the email security company, says it has so far intercepted over one million copies of Sobig.F, a variation of an earlier virus that was doing the rounds some time back, since it was first detected on 18th August, in the first 24 hours. This makes Sobig.F the fastest growing virus ever, surpassing the infamous … Read more