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AVG CodeWord: False Positives

Jul

2012

Any user with a casual passing interest in IT security will at some stage encounter the paradoxically named expression ‘false positive’. Not quite the tautological twist that it might at first sound like, a false positive is the term we use to describe the “false” identification of a piece of software code as a “positive” […]

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Google Chrome to alert on malware downloads

Jan

2012

Google says that the latest beta version of its popular Chrome browser incorporates a new security feature to warn users that they are trying to download malicious software from a website. That’s not a revolutionary new feature, of course, and various other browsers already protect consumers in this way. Not to mention “conventional” anti-virus solutions […]

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Mac malware evolves – time for Apple owners to wake up

Oct

2011

Mac users have once again been reminded not to be complacent about the malware threat, with the discovery that cybercriminals have enhanced an existing Trojan horse to disable the rudimentary anti-virus protection Apple has built into Mac OS X. Despite the growth of Mac malware in the last 12 months, many users are still not […]

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