Symantec news from FierceCIO

Security firm Symantec has been hit with a class-action lawsuit for automatically renewing the subscription of a New York man. The crux of the case has to do with promises the company made in an... Read more...

You must have heard about it by now: The use of a string compare function resulted in the year "2010" being interpreted as being earlier than "2009." If only the repercussions were less severe, it... Read more...

AV-Comparatives has released a comparison of some of the top anti-malware on the market. Note that the objective of this analysis was to identify how well antivirus scanners can detect malware using... Read more...

Malware authors are always looking for new ways with which to control computers that are infected with a Trojan. This reason is simple--once discovered, security folks are typically quick to shut... Read more...

A new Trojan has emerged that apparently encrypts crucial portions of user documents, rendering them effectively corrupted. Unlike other such applications in this "ransom-ware" category of malware... Read more...

Security vendor Symantec did a study of 250 fake security programs and concluded in a report that the software known as "SpywareGuard" and "AntiVirus" were the top two such software around. We ran a... Read more...

We reported last week that Microsoft's Security Essentials (MSE) could be out "in a matter of weeks." Well, it seems we were wrong: MSE will in fact be available for download by the general public... Read more...

According to two government officials, the Internet is particularly vulnerable because most users have no idea what they are up against or how to prevent a cyberattack. Michael Stawasz, senior... Read more...

The two leading makers of computer security software, Symantec and McAfee, are in a race for business. The New York Times reports this week that each has become more aggressive as they try to get... Read more...

Microsoft has a new security problem, and there is no way to fix it. Security firm Symantec told USA Today that cybercriminals have already found the vulnerability, which affects PCs using Windows XP... Read more...