A couple of days ago Microsoft came with a new free Anti-Virus product – Microsoft Security Essentials I will not comment on Microsoft ability to create security products, my opinion could be based of course. I’d like to write a bit about the whole idea of those Free Anti-Virus. Currently it’s not just a GNU-like [...]
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Free Anti-Viruses Industry
October 3rd, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in IT Security, Information Technologies, eCommerce | View Comments
Privacy and identity theft via webmail
Already many years Identity theft considered as a crime in USA and EU countries. Of course, it’s not a act of stealing, which is prosecuted, identity can not be stolen, just copied. It’s the act of using this information for criminal purposes, like obtaining credit, writing cheques, paying with credit card via Internet, etc. Free email [...]
Real Virus attack on corporate network
January 20th, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in IT Security | View Comments
I’ve been working for many years in a anti-virus company. Of course my view on computer viruses and incidents is biased, but this angle could be interesting anyway. Currently the anti-virus coverage within corporate networks is close to 100%. Within home users it’s estimated from 70% to 90%. How exactly does infeactions happen in real [...]
