Scareware Most Costly Online Scam: McAfee
The security software vendor warns consumers that scareware, or fake antivirus software, will be the most costly online consumer scam in 2010.
Search Results
Search found 145 results on 6 pages for 'mcafee'.
Page 2/6 | < Previous Page | 1 2 3 4 5 6 | Next Page >
-
-
McAfee's Got the Skinny on Scareware
Security firm's advisory details the dangers of downloading fake antivirus software, often referred to as 'scareware.'Read the article
-
McAfee Misses Sales, Profit Targets in 1Q
The security software vendor blamed unfavorable currency exchange rates and delays in closing big deals for its lackluster first quarter results.Read the article
-
McAfee Aims to Shut Down 'Malvertisers'
Deal with Adgregate aims to certify that e-commerce and advertisers are legit.Read the article
-
Scareware Raking in Millions Says McAfee
A new report reveals phony antivirus programs and similar <i>scareware</i> exploits are victimizing as many as a million people each day, with millions of dollars involved.Read the article
-
McAfee Makes Amends For Embarrassing Gaffe
Security software maker is offering to reimburse customers who had to go into their own pockets to resolve a false positive that wreaked havoc on users' systems.Read the article
-
McAfee Secure Messaging Service / Postini: false positive?
- by Martin
Hello, I'm puzzled by this email message that gets quarantined by McAfee Secure Messaging Service (it's based on Postini) for no reason that I can think of. Here are the Postini headers: X-pstn-2strike: clear X-pstn-neptune: 0/0/0.00/0 X-pstn-levels: (S: 0.02932/98.63596 CV:99.9000 FC:95.5390 LC:95.5390 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282…Read the article
-
Download Free Norton Antivirus 2012 with 6 months subscription
- by Gopinath
Norton, one of the most popular antivirus software Antivirus is now available as a free download with 6 months of subscription. Thanks to Facebook for teaming up with Symantec and providing Norton Antivirus 2012 for free to all its users. To grab your copy of Free antivirus, point your browser to…Read the article
-
McAfee lance le "préservatif numérique" pour Facebook, une solution pour contrôler la diffusion de ses photos sur le réseau social
McAfee lance un "préservatif numérique" pour Facebook Une solution pour controler la diffusion de ses photos sur le réseau social Que c'est facile et amusant de partager ses photos sur Facebook, mais pourriez-vous contrôler ce que les autres en font ? Cela est visiblement possible grâce à une…Read the article
-
McAfee enterprise 8.5 & SharePoint
- by CrazyNick
While trying to upload a file into the sharepoint 2007 document library, We are facing some issues. McAfee enterprise 8.5 is installed on the client machine, will it be the issue?Read the article
-
Antivirus Configuration for dedicated SQL and dedicated IIS Servers
- by Wayne Arthurton
Our corporate standard is McAfee Enterprise, unfortunately this is non-negotiable. On two types of servers I'm responsible for, SQL & Web, we have noticed major performance issues with the corporate standard setup. Max scan time 45sec One policy for all processes Scan ALL files on…Read the article
-
Le rachat de McAfee par Intel validé par la Commission européenne, sous réserve d'une garantie "d'interopérabilité des produits"
Le rachat de McAfee par Intel validé par la Commission européenne, sous réserve d'une garantie de l'interopérabilité "des produits issus de cette concentration" Mise à jour du 28.01.2011 par Katleen Ca y est, la Commission européenne a finalement statué sur l'acquisition de McAfee par…Read the article
-
McAfee enterprise 8.5 & SharePoint
- by CrazyNick
While trying to upload a file into the sharepoint 2007 document library, We are facing some issues. McAfee enterprise 8.5 is installed on the client machine, will it be the issue?Read the article
-
Mcafee PCI Compliance failing on Session ID cookie?
- by frio80
Hello there. I am attempting to obtain PCI compliance for my site but the Mcafee security scan has thrown a: Potential Sensitive Persistent Cookie Sent Over a Non-Encrypted (SSL) Channel Drupal (default behavior) sets a session cookie when you simply arrive at the site. This is…Read the article
-
McAfee to pony up for costs of dealing with their SNAFU…
- by Shawn Cicoria
Well, it’s a great to see that McAfee is standing up to help out, at least financially (and technically too) to reimburse those users affected by their lack of QA on a release of virus signatures. http://us.mcafee.com/en-us/landingpages/np5959.asp?cid=77220Read the article
-
La Commission européenne examine le rachat de McAfee par Intel et craint une position de monopole pour la sécurité des processeurs
La Commission européenne examine le rachat de McAfee par Intel, et craint une position de monopole pour la sécurité des processeurs Mise à jour du 20.12.2010 par Katleen L'acquisition de McAfee par Intel pourrait être compromise. La Commission européenne examine actuellement le…Read the article
-
Réparer les dégâts du faux-positif de McAfee pourrait prendre des semaines, la société "étudie une m
Mise à jour du 23/04/10 Réparer les dégâts du faux-positif de McAfee prendrait 30 minutes Par PC, la société étudie "une manière pour que cela ne se reproduise plus jamais" Amrit Williams, directeur de la technologie de Big Fix - une société spécialisée dans la gestion de la…Read the article
-
Standard Protection:Prevent IRC communication
- by awe
I have McAffee virusscan on my work computer, and every time I start up, I get 2 log entries like this: Blocked by port blocking rule C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe Anti-virus Standard Protection:Prevent IRC communication The difference between the two, is that at…Read the article
-
Windows Vista: Networking can only connect "local only"
- by Damien
I am attempting to debug a problem on a Windows Vista laptop - not mine! Until just recently (last week or so), it was operating normally for about 4 years :) The problem is that I am having issues connecting to the local network (a basic wireless home router; more later)…Read the article
-
Win 7 firewall won't turn on, nor the McAfee firewall. Hit by "Win 7 Anti-virus 2012" trojan. Removed, but a downed firewall is a lasting legacy
- by PhxTitan
I caught the Trojan right away, I think, but both my McAfee & Win 7 (x64) firewalls are not able to be engaged/turned on now. MS Error Code 0x80070424 when attempting to turn on Win 7 firewall. No viruses. Swept it with McAfee AV, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Microsoft…Read the article
-
Source Code Management a Weak Spot in Aurora Attacks
McAfee encourages companies to strengthen the security measures protecting their code and other valuable IP.Read the article
-
Geez – do you even do basic testing?
- by Shawn Cicoria
You’d think that a “real” commercial software vendor would at least run a barrage of tests validating updates – ANY updates – before pushing out those updates. Well, McAfee has done it again. This one, well it just shuts you down… False positives on a core…Read the article
-
Energy Firms Targetted for Sensitive Documents
- by martin.abrahams
Numerous multinational energy companies have been targeted by hackers who have been focusing on financial documents related to oil and gas field exploration, bidding contracts, and drilling rights, as well as proprietary industrial process documents, according to a new…Read the article
-
Toorcon14
- by danx
Toorcon 2012 Information Security Conference San Diego, CA, http://www.toorcon.org/ Dan Anderson, October 2012 It's almost Halloween, and we all know what that means—yes, of course, it's time for another Toorcon Conference! Toorcon is an annual conference…Read the article
-
How do I tell Apache which PHP to use?
- by Sam McAfee
I am running Apache2 on a Mac OS X (10.5). I just compiled PHP 5.2.8 and finally got pdo-mysql working (or so I think). My command line "php --version" is showing 5.2.8 and I have the right modules installed. But, when do a phpinfo(), Apache dumps out PHP 5.2.6 (my…Read the article
