Trend Micro to offer cash back for viruses
Antivirus software maker Trend Micro has announced a new twist in the competitive enterprise security software market: cash back for tardy virus updates.
Stories by Paul Roberts
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Software spending to pick up in 2003
Despite economic difficulties tied to accounting scandals and to the looming prospect of war on Iraq, revenue in the worldwide packaged software market will grow by around 4 per cent in 2003, after slower growth of around 1.5 per cent in 2002, according to IDC.
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New alerts have analysts doubting MS security
A string of new security alerts from software maker Microsoft this week has prominent industry analysts and security experts predicting that the company's goal of making its software secure may remain elusive.
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New e-mail virus targets Windows, IE
A new e-mail-borne virus, variously known as "Tanatos" and "W32/Bugbear", is being circulated as an e-mail attachment and appears to target machines running Microsoft operating systems, according to alerts issued by a number of computer security companies.
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Slapper worm variants spread
Two new variants of the Slapper worm, which targets Apache Web servers running on Linux operating systems, have appeared in the wild and are reported to be spreading. The worm initially surfaced two weeks ago.
