Posts Tagged ‘Antispam’

Behavior Based Detection of Malware Files and Processes Most of the real time PC security software available today are signature based. They depend upon identification of a malware, analysis of its signature, updation of the database of the security software vendor and then download of the updated signature files by the end user. This complete cycle ...

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Hoax emails and internet rumor, disguised as funny emails, scary emails, breaking news and so on, are becoming to be big source of spreading malware. Malware distributors send spam messages containing attractive headline and subject messages, with a link appearing to be leading to some video, news item or something like that. Actually these link ...

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Email Spam - The Growing Threat Spam, the dark side of email convenience. Wikipedia says... E-mail spam, known as unsolicited bulk Email (UBE), junk mail, or unsolicited commercial email (UCE), is the practice of sending unwanted e-mail messages, frequently with commercial content, in large quantities to an indiscriminate set of recipients. By some conservative estimates, spam comprise ...

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Security Products from top Security Software vendors like Symantec and CA failed to clear the critical PC Security tests VB100, performed by the independent security analyst Virus Bulletin. This test is performed every month from the product submitted by different vendors for benchmarking their products against industry requirements. This month VB's test team put 35 products through ...

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The success of Social Networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn is all about the WEb 2.0 era. The popularity of them is growing day  by day and people have started finding answers to theor problems through searches with these sites. However, often, they are considered to be a big time-wasters and a drain on ...

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Internet is like a jungle out there. You never know, when you have clicked a "loaded" link, visited a malware distributing site or opened a malware attachment. All it takes is just one click, and you have compromised your Web Browser security. You browser homepage might have been changed, you may start to get pop-up ...

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What are RootKits A rootkit is a software system that consists of a program or combination of several programs designed to hide or obscure the fact that a system has been compromised. An attacker may use a rootkit to replace vital system executables, which may then be used to hide processes and files the attacker has installed, along with the presence of the rootkit. The Detection of ...

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Web 2.0 is all about community sites. Websites, which are user driven, which rely of data sharing by users and which maintain a separate account for each user. And every account is associated with an email address. Your email ID is now your personality. The most important data of your online presence. So, it is obvious that ...

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