Easy to set up and use, it includes built-in anti-virus and spam-fighting technology and 99.9 percent uptime guarantee.
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Yet ironically, as Microsoft slowly improves the security of its products by, for instance, incorporating firewall technology, anti-virus systems and spam filters its actions increasingly start to resemble those that, in the past, have got the firm into trouble with regulators.
In August this year Qihoo 360 Technology, an anti-virus software company, launched a competing search engine.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at anti-virus company Sophos, said the virus had been known about since the end of June and anyone with up to date anti-virus software was unlikely to be infected by it.
The genome has been sequenced several times over, and we have the technology to synthesize parts of the virus if we really need it for vaccine design.
Its technology fuses bacterial proteins with part of the flu virus so that the vaccine can be made much more cheaply.
The archaic technology for making them, which involves injecting influenza virus into chicken eggs and separating out the resulting antibodies, only allows for a few flu strains to be included and they must be picked far in advance.
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Protein Sciences uses recombinant DNA technology to produce its vaccines using a single protein from the virus.
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The technology involves caterpillar ovary cells, which were isolated 20 years ago, and a virus called baculovirus that infects insects but does not harm humans, Adams said.
The technology, however, could be applied to other vaccines, such as those against influenza virus, or vaccines under development for TB and malaria or for existing vaccines administered in childhood.
Before we sent the PDF to the our customer we checked it against the same Antivirus Technology that they were using to ensure that it was not detected as malware or a virus.
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The company running the experiment, VaxInnate, a closely held biotech firm, is working on technology that could derive in only six weeks a new vaccine for the H1N1 swine flu, the virus causing the global scare.
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