Spyware Security

SpamAssassin is a mature, widely-deployed open source project that serves as a mail filter to identify Spam. SpamAssassin uses a variety of mechanisms including header and text analysis, Bayesian filtering, DNS blocklists, and collaborative filtering databases. SpamAssassin runs on a server, and filters spam before it reaches your mailbox 

3.1.5 includes a large number of bug fixes and documentation updates.

Downloads are available from:
  http://spamassassin.apache.org/downloads.cgi?update=200608300000

August 31st, 2006 | Tags: SPAM, SpamAssassin | Category: Software updates | Leave a comment

While viruses for Symbian and Windows Mobile currently seem more like proof-of-concept studies, the Windows Mobile platform offers malware writers who already know Windows a very similar environment. Spybot-S&D for Windows Mobile uses a lightweight version of the detection engine of Spybot-S&D for Windows to detect threats for Windows Mobile and Symbian.

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August 24th, 2006 | Tags: Malware, Virus | Category: General | Leave a comment

Sophos’ Anti-Rootkit program, available to both customers and non-customers, warns if removing a specific rootkit will interfere or impact an infected PC’s operating system.  Microsoft recently said that statistics gleaned from users of its updated-monthly Malicious Software Removal Tool indicate that 14 percent of computers, or almost 1 in 6, harbor a rootkit. Sophos Anti-Rootkit works on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003; it can be downloaded from here.

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August 24th, 2006 | Category: General | Leave a comment