SophosLabs defended customers against attacks from new versions of the Mytob worm this weekend, says local distributor Netxactics.
Distributor VAD Africa has announced the Check Point Express CI security solution that includes anti-virus protection.
Distributor Grayford Holton says the Bitdefender v2 anti-virus solution for Microsoft ISA Servers has been launched.
Symantec has made fixes for two Norton vulnerabilities available through the company's online update service.
Phishing attacks are becoming more sophisticated and South Africans have reason to worry, says Symantec's bi-annual security report.
A Sophos report has found that the majority of spam e-mail subject lines disguise words to get past security software, says distributor Netxactics.
Computer viruses designed to execute in the Microsoft environment often lurk in Unix-based systems, says Sophos.
Phase one of the BitDefender Heuristics In Virtual Environments (HIVE) program has gone live, says distributor Holton & Associates.
Sophos has warned of an increase in Trojan horses that log keyboard commands, says distributor Netxactics.
New security threats are seeing anti-virus software becoming more sophisticated, says Zandre Rudolph, consultant at Rectron.
Users should look at a number of criteria before selecting anti-virus software, says Brett Myroff, CEO of Netxactics.
The BitDefender for Microsoft SharePoint 2003 solution was released at the Cebit technology exhibition in Germany last week. [Local BitDefender rep: Holton & Associates]
Security vendors are divided as to whether several virus writers are collaborating.