Summary: Symantec India branch vice president of product operations Sha Tanu Ghosh (Shantanu Ghosh) said that day in July this year, all the world to send e-mail, 78% for spam, an increase of 66%. The other message is more “vicious”, that is to induce users to click on links to fake Web site of sports, the fact that these sites contain malicious code.

Beijing on August 8, according to foreign media reports that the United States well-known anti-virus software developer Symantec (Symantec), a senior, said Thursday that in the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony, the world’s spammers are Is preparing to take the “big one”, that is, the world’s Internet users concerned about the use of Olympic enthusiasm, to send a large number of Olympic information on the face of it, in fact contain malicious code, spam, so as to achieve the collection of personal information users click on ads or fraud rate , And other illegal purposes. Read the rest of this entry »

Symantec will launch its Veritas virtualization infrastructure solutions for the first time for the virtual server environment to provide advanced storage features, be able to effectively manage large-scale x86 storage environments. Veritas virtualization infrastructure is expected to be listed in the fourth quarter of this year, which is a combination of VeritasStorageFoundation the latest advanced storage management functions, as well as Citrix Systems CitrixXenServer flexible and efficient virtualization technologies. Veritas virtualization infrastructure will help customers to fully benefit from server virtualization, while protecting the physical environment of the current storage management best practices and make full use of the virtual environment brought about by new opportunities.

Symantec availability and storage management RobSoderbery, senior vice president, said: “With Veritas virtualization infrastructure, and Symantec to provide for x86 virtual server environment, enterprise-class storage management, the solution has been widely recognized in the industry . Read the rest of this entry »

[Abstract] abroad, according to media reports, recently the world’s leading security vendors Symantec issued a warning that Microsoft’s software products, there is not yet patched security holes, IE6 users compared to IE7 users more vulnerable to the effects of vulnerability. According to foreign media reports, recently the world’s leading security vendors Symantec issued a warning that Microsoft’s software products, there is not yet patched security holes, IE6 users compared to IE7 users more vulnerable to the effects of vulnerability.

Microsoft in the July 8 release of its monthly security patches, but it triggered a Microsoft Access database software in the presence of security flaws. The problem is that Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control that allows users to control can not start the Access database will be able to view the Access report.
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From the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony of the time is getting closer, the recent well-known security vendor Symantec warned that individuals and business users to be more alert and pay attention to protection by the Olympic theme of spam, phishing attacks and malicious software such as behavior. From the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony of the time is getting closer, the recent well-known security vendor Symantec warned that individuals and business users to be more alert and pay attention to protection by the Olympic theme of spam, phishing attacks and malicious software such as behavior.

Symantec has just released in July of junk e-mail security report, the security vendor said that there is a large part of spam is the theme of the Olympic Games and relevant. These disguised as junk e-mail from the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, deception and winning customers, but customers need to mail back to winning confirmation message. Read the rest of this entry »

Symantec Wednesday released a fiscal 2009 first-quarter earnings reports. Reported, security and storage software to benefit from strong market demand, Symantec reported first-quarter net profit up 97%, more than analysts expected.

Ended on July 4 in the first quarter, Symantec’s net profit of 1.87 billion U.S. dollars, earnings per share of 22 cents. The performance of a sharp year-on-year growth in the first fiscal quarter of 2008, Symantec’s net profit for 95,000,000 U.S. dollars, earnings per share of 10 cents. Symantec reported first-quarter revenue was 16.5 billion U.S. dollars in the same period last year of 1,400,000,000 U.S. dollars an increase of 16%. Not in accordance with U.S. GAAP calculation (excluding special items), Symantec reported first-quarter adjusted net profit of 342,000,000 U.S. dollars for the same period last year of 263,000,000 U.S. dollars grew 30% to 40 cents per share, Over the same period last year, earnings per share was 29 cents. Read the rest of this entry »