After the contest was over, CoreTrace ran the contestants' modified viruses through its BOUNCER anti-virus software.
So count me among those people who would love to wave buh-bye to anti-virus software.
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The "Race to Zero" was sponsored by CoreTrace, an Austin, Texas-based anti-virus software maker.
In August this year Qihoo 360 Technology, an anti-virus software company, launched a competing search engine.
Russian companies occupy leading positions in, among other specialties anti-virus software, search engines, and text recognition.
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Companies have in place their own firewalls and anti-virus software to protect data stored on the premises.
"Companies that receive daily updates of good anti-virus software could nip this thing in the bud, " Grossman says.
Russian IT security company Kaspersky Labs told users to disable its anti-virus software or roll back the update.
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Which is why only the most paranoid consumers today bother to get anti-virus software for their phone or tablet.
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Norton has already released new versions of its anti-virus software in anticipation of the Windows 8 launch next month.
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Symantec is one of the leading players in storage software, anti-virus software, online authentication software and online verification certificates.
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The expansion of the addressable market for anti-virus software should bolster Symantec stock.
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Anti-virus software has long played up its medical overtones, with talk of vaccination and inoculation, and logos involving syringes.
As demand for standalone anti-virus software wanes in the post-PC era, the need for securing and managing devices rises greatly.
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Worse, the worm can "lobotomize" anti-virus software, Corman says, so that it appears to be running but has no effect.
Take the anti-virus software on your computer: the software by itself does come preprogrammed with some but not all answers.
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It can compromise secure transactions and passwords, make computers vulnerable to hackers, disable anti-virus software and distribute potentially confidential e-mails.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has information on anti-virus software and tips on how to stay safe online.
With Simon Howard, CoreTrace put together an obstacle course in which contestants had to create Trojan horse viruses to bypass anti-virus software.
Like the virus software, the better we are at recognizing the scenario, the better we are in determining a course of action.
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If you fall prey to the scheme, you risk getting a torrent of spam aimed at making you buy false anti-virus software.
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To stop anti-virus software grabbing the passwords to unlock the attachments, Bagle.
Install anti-virus software on every system, and keep it up to date.
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McAfee makes anti-virus software that can be used to combat cyber attacks.
Av-Test recommended choosing Android anti-virus software from this list, and considering mobile security solutions that offer backup and anti-theft protection as well.
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The fake alert then prompted the user to install fake anti-virus software.
Defcon said it notified the two largest anti-virus software providers, McAfee and Symantec, about "Race to Zero, " but the companies declined to participate.
The founder of the anti-virus software firm McAfee is being sought by police in Belize for questioning over the murder of his neighbour.
Luckily BubbleBoy's proud author chose to share his achievement with the manufacturers of anti-virus software, rather than mail it to the rest of us.
Participants heard that businesses could reduce their risk of online crime by 80% by having up to date anti-virus software and firewalls in place.
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