I was perusing the Webroot website when I found the Phileas page. It sounds like the Microsoft Research Honeymonkeys project. Phileas is a ground-breaking online spyware research system developed by Webroot. Using patent-pending technology that scours the entire Web, Phileas discovers spyware on the Internet faster and more efficiently than any other research method. More …
Back in August I wrote about a purchase of Aluria by Earthlink. I speculated that might end the relationship with AOL. Well, the shoe has finally dropped. AOL has announced that AOL Spyware Protection 2.0 will be using Computer Associates Spysweeper product. And AOL just couldn’t resist some potshots at Aluria suggesting they couldn’t be …
I called support yesterday to check in on any possible interactions between Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition version 10 and Webroot Spysweeper Enterprise. SAV 10 now has realtime spyware protections and I wanted to see if there would be any issues. Symantec warns about using the antispyware parts with other realtime antispyware programs. Support says there …
Spy Sweeper Enterprise 2.5 is currenntly available for new installations only. They say they will be releasing an upgrade package for current customers “shortly.” Just as well, I’ve got some other things to be working on anyway.
Another bit of news from Donna’s security flash. Earthlink has picked up the assets of Aluria software. Aluria is a small company from Lake Mary Florida. That’s just north of Orlando, so I know the area a bit from my time down there. Although Aluria’s consumere product has been highly rated, I was never high …
I saw over on Donna’s Securityflash that Webroot has put out a press release that their enterprise version 2.5 is now available. I’m sure as a customer, they’ll let me know this sooner or later. Actually there is a “news” page within the product, so I would probably have learned this next time I opened …
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Sunbelt Software Counterspy has an article analyzing WhenU practices here.
I thought I’d said all I was going to say on the hijacked 404 web page, but there was a little bit of news today. 1. A moderator reports that the problem is resolved. So at least that is progress if they are admitting there was a problem. I’d prefer to know what was wrong …
I got a note back from Websense today that they’ve added the link I sent them to the block list, so Websense customers with the Premium Spyware Group will be protected from that little baddie. I also finally added in the custom 404 redirect. I didn’t take the time to add in a redirect for …
I took the files that the fake 404 error page was attempting to install and sent them to Symantec. As I mentioned in my last post, virus total showed several other vendors detecting it as a virus, but not Symantec. I should mention that virustotal.com does not use version 9 of Symantec and would be …