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Welcome to McAfee® News, our monthly customer newsletter. Our goal is to keep you informed of anti-virus industry trends, ways you can make your job easier, and the tools McAfee offers to help you in your battle against virus security threats. |
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This Issue New Worm Slams Home The Need For Comprehensive Defense Against Today's Threats Slammer, the latest high-risk worm to threaten businesses worldwide, highlights the need for comprehensive protection that extends beyond the 'traditional' anti-virus solutions of yesterday. Like CodeRed before it, Slammer uses a system vulnerability to attack victim machines via a buffer overflow — a patch for this vulnerability has been available for more than six months. Like CodeRed, Slammer is a 'fileless' worm that exists only in memory. Unlike CodeRed, Slammer targets SQL servers rather than web servers. Although Slammer does not damage data, the volume of traffic generated by this fast-moving worm has been enough to debilitate corporate networks and slow the Internet. For full details on McAfee's COMPREHENSIVE solution to the SQLSlammer worm, please visit http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99992.htm. [ Back to top ] McAfee to Extend Anti-Spam Solutions In a move to provide customers with the tools they need to battle spam, Network Associates, Inc. has announced the acquisition of Deersoft, Inc., a leading provider of anti-spam solutions. The Deersoft acquisition is the first in a series of investments Network Associates is making in spam and content filtering technologies. Under the terms of the deal, Network Associates has acquired all technologies associated with Deersoft's Consumer and Enterprise anti-spam products. The technology will be delivered at the gateway, e-mail server, and desktop for enterprise customers and will be integrated into McAfee's existing award-winning, consumer anti-spam product McAfee SpamKiller™. For more information please visit http://www.mcafeeb2b.com/other/jump/deersoft.asp. [ Back to top ] Measure Your Level of Protection With McAfee ThreatScan The latest ThreatScan module updates, published on 15 January, make it even easier to manage your network environment with two NEW FEATURES. The first is detection for Nokia Hotsynch software, letting you identify those machines which provide a network connection for a Nokia device. The second is detection for a range of anti-virus products — including McAfee, Symantec, Trend, F-Secure, Sophos, Panda, Kaspersky, and Norman anti-virus products. Using the power of ePolicy Orchestrator reports, you get an at-a-glance picture of those machines in the corporate network on which anti-virus software is installed. You can't manage what you can't measure! ThreatScan lets you measure your level of protection across the enterprise. ThreatScan module updates — available for ThreatScan 2.0 and ThreatScan 2.1 — are available at ftp://ftp.nai.com/pub/security/tsc20/updates/winnt. For more information on ThreatScan, please visit http://www.mcafeeb2b.com/products/threatscan/default.asp. [ Back to top ] Tip of the Month — It's Time To Report On 21 January 2003, Simon Vallor, a UK-based virus writer, was sentenced to two year's imprisonment after pleading guilty to three counts of releasing a computer virus. Such prosecutions are reliant on police being able to provide evidence of infection — something that's possible only with effective virus incident reporting. Of course, bringing virus writers to book is only one of the benefits of such reports. As well as finding out about virus 'hot-spots', you also get to know about product and update distribution across your organisation. McAfee VirusScan Online Business Edition includes graphical reports — virus and anti-virus — showing you where the viruses are being stopped and letting you see at-a-glance the outbreak-readiness of machines within your enterprise with zero administration! [ Back to top ] Get the Most from Your Investment with McAfee University The more you know about how to use your McAfee Security products, the more you can get from your investment. Our new McAfee Security University offerings can help you to get the best value from your McAfee Security solutions. Once you've made an investment in McAfee Security solutions, it's only good sense to learn to wring every last cent of return out of it. The more you know about how to use the McAfee Security products, the more benefit you can get from them. Our new McAfee Security University offerings can help you to get the best value from your investment. In North America, we're currently offering two classes in eight cities.
There are three convenient ways to register:
In EMEA, we're currently offering four classes in a variety of locations.
For more information and scheduling details, please email: educationEMEA@nai.com. [ Back to top ] Network Associates — Securing the Public's Data Network Associates is the trusted expert in virus protection, intrusion protection and detection, network security and availability assurance. As a reliable partner for your network defense, we provide Federal, state, and local government solutions to ensure reliable government communications and continuity. For more details, please click here. And for a list of government, education, and health seminars and tradeshows we'll be attending, click here. [ Back to top ] Join the McAfee Beta Test Program McAfee beta software provides our customers with the opportunity to test forthcoming product releases within their own environment and to report any problems found. The aim of the beta team is to ensure that McAfee products are released with no known defects. Help us to achieve this goal by becoming a McAfee beta tester. Current beta products:
For more details, please visit http://www.mcafeesecurity.com/beta/. [ Back to top ] In the News The virus name game SearchSecurity.com By Edward Hurley December 20, 2002 Threat Of Yaha Virus Upgraded InformationWeek Online By George V. Hulme December 31, 2002 Yaha Worm Spreads Beyond Middle East eWeek By Dennis Fisher December 31, 2002 Yaha worm no longer a business threat SearchSecurity.com By Edward Hurley January 6, 2003 Anti-Virus Products Section SC Magazine January 6, 2003 Network Assoc. Adds Anti-Spam with Deersoft Buy Reuters By Jeffrey Goldfarb January 6, 2003 Does ActiveX Deserve Its Bad Rep? NewsFactor.com By Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier January 7, 2003 MOCA Inks Deal with Network Associates CRN By Scott Campbell January 7, 2003 Avril Lavigne Is a Virus TechTV By Becky Worley January 8, 2003 ExploreZip, Avril worms a headache for businesses SearchSecurity.com By Edward Hurley January 9, 2003 Sobig virus sows few PC problems CNET By Robert Lemos January 13, 2003 DISA crew inoculates DOD against viruses Government Computer News By Dawn S. Onley January 13, 2003 Avril: She's Hot, She's a Virus E! Online By Joal Ryan January 14, 2003 Worms off to fast start in 2003 SearchSecurity.com By Edward Hurley January 16, 2003 [ Back to top ] You have received this message because you are a subscriber to the Network Associates or McAfee Security Web sites. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions at the end of this message. This information update is available at no charge to all registered users of Network Associates website. * To change your email address, send a reply to this email address and to subscribe@nai.com with the words, "change-address" in the subject line. In the body of the message include your old and new email addresses with the original message. Use the following format for email changes: OLD: enduser@olddomain.com NEW: Joseph_User@newdomain.com  |
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