Category Archives: Security

Tej Kohli writes about Internet Security on Tej Kohli Blog.

AVG Adds Link Scanning to Antivirus Suite

I came across an article on internetnews.com. Read the latest story on the Tej Kohli Blog.
 AVG Technologies is the latest antivirus vendor to beef up its security suite to cover as wide a range of threats as possible by including link-scanning technology it acquired late last year.
AVG (which changed its name from Grisoft earlier this year) [...]

Symantec Finds Scope of IT Risk Widening

Symantec has released is second-annual Risk Assessment survey and the results show that the definition of “risk” is expanding, as are the threats facing IT.
The survey of 405 IT managers, undertaken between February and November 2007, found that their top concern is network availability — with 78 percent citing it as a business-critical or serious [...]

Wi-Fi Networks Face Virus Threat?

Researchers at Indiana University are raising alarms about the potential vulnerability of Wi-Fi networks to malware attacks. In their report, the researchers said they were able to simulate the vulnerability of Wi-Fi networks in several U.S. cities to the spread of malware, the malicious software worm or virus that the study said could spread rapidly from [...]