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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 25, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced NetBackup 7 to help enterprise-level organizations protect, store and recover information with greater efficiency and reliability through a single, unified platform. The latest release of NetBackup enables organizations to simplify information management while reducing data stores and network traffic by integrating
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BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative anti-malware security solutions, today warned of a new threat following the flood of interest in the result of the January 19th Massachusetts elections. The day after his winning Senate campaign, nude pictures of Cosmopolitan’s Sexiest Man of 1982 Scott Brown not only stirred women’s imaginations, but also got the
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BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative anti-malware security solutions, today warned of the possible spread of malware by users employing unprotected systems who make a Massachusetts Senate race query via search engine. Users could be exposed by simply clicking the seemingly innocent links related to the election topic. The M.O. is classic: when clicked, the
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Microsoft has released an advance notification of one out-of-band security bulletin that Microsoft is intending to release on January 21, 2010. The bulletin will be for Internet Explorer to address limited attacks against customers of Internet Explorer 6, as well as fixes for vulnerabilities rated Critical that are not currently under active attack. Learn more
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 20, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that its industry-leading security products received top reviews from two respected independent testing bodies, AV-Comparatives and AV-Test.org. Symantec was awarded Best Anti-Virus Product of 2009 by AV-Comparatives, an accolade that honors top results across numerous tests in key protection and performance
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PHILADELPHIA, PA and MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – January 20, 2010 – Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), one of the nation’s leading providers of entertainment, information and communication products and services, starting today is offering the #1 brand in Internet security, Norton from Symantec, to residential and business high-speed Internet subscribers for no additional cost. Norton Security
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 has been voted ‘The Best’ by readers of the leading Romanian IT magazines, CHIP and XtremPC. The surveys were initiated by the two magazines in order to identify the best hardware and software products of 2009. Kaspersky Internet Security
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., January 19, 2010 – McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced the next event in its complimentary monthly “Hacking Exposed Live” webcast series designed to educate attendees on how to protect against cybercrime and hackers. The monthly webcast hosted by McAfee Senior Vice President and General Manager of Risk and Compliance, Stuart McClure, walks
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., January 18, 2010 – McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced the company is delivering on its 2010 channel vision and strategy to develop a consistent worldwide channel program that promotes a value-based, enabled, productive and profitable channel ecosystem. This announcement was made today before more than 1,500 partner attendees at the company’s first
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the successful patenting in the US of cutting-edge technology that minimizes the number of false positives. The technology promptly and automatically corrects anti-malware applications that flag safe objects as being malicious, and does so without compromising the level of malware detection. The patented technology
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