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Socially Intelligent Software: Agents Go Mainstream

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Software agents are beginning to emerge from their initial status as a computing and communications curiosity, and are providing customer service on the Net for major companies like Microsoft and Symantec. Beyond consumer applications, agents are even routing and scheduling warplanes on aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean. While the popular conception of an agent…

Windows Threat Realized – Blaster Worm Spreads

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A widely anticipated threat materialized this week as a worm that exploits a Microsoft Windows flaw began infecting some of the millions of vulnerable machines around the world. Experts said the relatively simple “Blaster” worm — also referred to as “LoveSan” — was spreading at a steady pace Monday but was not infecting machines at…

Profile of the Superworm: SoBig.E Exposed

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The SoBig.E worm, released two months ago on the Internet, continues to spread from unprotected computers. Some Internet security analysts fear that this latest variant of the SoBig family — much like possible future variants of the new Microsoft Blaster or LovSan worm that began to proliferate early this week — will cause long-term threats…

Worm Takes Toll, Microsoft Attack Set

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

As some antivirus vendors raised their alert rating on a Windows worm that has infected thousands of home and corporate computers, the spreading code continued to take over machines that might be used in an attack on Microsoft. The worm — referred to as MS Blast, Blaster and LovSan — does not require that users…

SoBig.F Piles On the Worm Effect

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

At the tail end of what could be called this summer’s “Worm Week,” antivirus and security experts watched carefully as the spreading SoBig.F variant flooded in-boxes around the Internet with millions of virus-laden e-mails. Antivirus researchers said the worm, which was set to activate a barrage of e-mail from infected machines Friday, was not especially…

Symantec Preempts Virus Fight on Handhelds

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Antivirus giant Symantec is touting features like centralized management and wireless Web updates in its new AntiVirus for Handhelds line that will be available in consumer and corporate versions beginning in September. Symantec joins other antivirus and security companies, including Network Associates, Trend Micro and Computer Associates, that have aimed their defense against viruses, worms…

Symantec Moves Against Piracy with Product Activation Requirements

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

This week, security software developer Symantec announced Norton Antivirus 2004, the newest version of the company’s antivirus software. While this product will provide consumers with new kinds of protection against certain emerging nonvirus threats — such as spyware and keystroke-logging programs — what is particularly noteworthy about the announcement is that it marks a major…

Symantec Exec Named U.S. Internet Security Chief

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Hoping to synchronize better with IT security’s private sector, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has enlisted Symantec vice president for managed services Amit Yoran as director of its cyber security division and has forged a partnership with the CERT Coordination Center to speed warning and response time. Security industry leaders praised both moves and…

New Swen Worm Poses as MS Patch, Spreads

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Despite the recent success of computer worms, such as Blaster, that have pounced on newly discovered vulnerabilities, a new threat that looks remarkably like a legitimate security e-mail from Microsoft is using a two-year-old vulnerability to infect thousands of computers. Known as “Swen” or “Gibe,” the mass-mailing worm has hit thousands of Windows machines —…

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