“Start-up seeks to transform antivirus defense through cloud (Network World)” plus 3 more |
- Start-up seeks to transform antivirus defense through cloud (Network World)
- Start-up wants to revive antivirus defense through the cloud (Computerworld)
- BitDefender antivirus breaks Windows (TechWorld)
- BitDefender apologises for faulty antivirus update (PC Advisor)
| Start-up seeks to transform antivirus defense through cloud (Network World) Posted: 23 Mar 2010 01:58 AM PDT Although some like to say "antivirus is dead" because of the explosion in malware that makes signature-based desktop protection harder than ever, start-up Immunet wants to bring new life to antivirus scanning through cloud computing. Founded by CEO Oliver Friedrichs, former director of emerging technologies at Symantec, Immunet is developing what Friedrichs calls "the next-generation antivirus product" that's based on a cloud-styled antivirus platform that will work with a fairly lightweight desktop agent to block and destroy malware. "Our goal is to re-invent the antivirus space." "With the cloud-based antivirus platform, there's no downloading," Friedrichs says.The Windows-based desktop agent, about 4MB, "queries the Immunet cloud. All our knowledge base is in the cloud, and it can grow indefinitely. It also lets us remediate false positives immediately. We operate like a standard A/V product except we're a tenth of the usual size." Immunet has had a free beta version out since last year, which is said to be in use by about 60,000 individuals, and the start-up expects to have a commercial product for the consumer market in the second quarter. The firm last November received about $2 million in venture funding from ALTOS Ventures and TechOperators. Immunet, founded in 2008, has about 10 employees, including former Symantec vice president of engineering Alfred Huger, who holds the same title at Immunet, as well as director of cloud engineering Adam O'Donnell, who held the same title at antispam messaging security firm CloudMark Friedrichs says the cloud-based collective-intelligence approach developed by Immunet works quickly to add new detection signatures, and though the tiny start-up is surrounded by several far larger players in the antivirus market that are also developing their own cloud-based approaches to malware detection, Immunet believes its approach outstrips "what larger incumbents are doing today." Immunet is also building its software agent to "run alongside McAfee, Symantec and AVG as well as about 23 other products," Friedrichs says, adding the ability to co-exist with more antivirus products are being added all the time. The idea behind this co-existence is that Immunet watches what another antivirus product might be doing to protect the user on the desktop to learn about new threats so "we're harnessing the collective power on another A/V," Friedrichs says. Immunet is mainly focused on core file-based threats, and when it comes to Web downloads, "we'll catch the threat if it hits your hard drive." Immunet operates its own crawlers and sensors to collect evidence of threats. As to whether Immunet now feels in competition with Symantec, where Friedrichs and Huger used to work, Friedrichs will only say, "We have a good working relationship with them. The companies work together on many cases." Read more about security in Network World's Security section. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Start-up wants to revive antivirus defense through the cloud (Computerworld) Posted: 22 Mar 2010 02:11 PM PDT Network World - Some like to say "antivirus is dead" because of the explosion in malware that makes signature-based desktop protection harder than ever, but start-up Immunet wants to bring new life to antivirus scanning through cloud computing. Founded by CEO Oliver Friedrichs, former director of emerging technologies at Symantec, Immunet is developing what Friedrichs calls "the next-generation antivirus product" that's based on a cloud-styled antivirus platform that will work with a fairly lightweight desktop agent to block and destroy malware. "Our goal is to re-invent the antivirus space." "With the cloud-based antivirus platform, there's no downloading," Friedrichs says.The Windows-based desktop agent, about 4MB, "queries the Immunet cloud. All our knowledge base is in the cloud, and it can grow indefinitely. It also lets us remediate false positives immediately. We operate like a standard A/V product except we're a tenth of the usual size." Immunet has had a free beta version out since last year, which is said to be in use by about 60,000 individuals, and the start-up expects to have a commercial product for the consumer market in the second quarter. The firm last November received about $2 million in venture funding from ALTOS Ventures and TechOperators. Immunet, founded in 2008, has about 10 employees, including former Symantec vice president of engineering Alfred Huger, who holds the same title at Immunet, as well as director of cloud engineering Adam O'Donnell, who held the same title at antispam messaging security firm CloudMark Friedrichs says the cloud-based collective-intelligence approach developed by Immunet works quickly to add new detection signatures, and though the tiny start-up is surrounded by several far larger players in the antivirus market that are also developing their own cloud-based approaches to malware detection, Immunet believes its approach outstrips "what larger incumbents are doing today." Immunet is also building its software agent to "run alongside McAfee, Symantec and AVG as well as about 23 other products," Friedrichs says, adding the ability to co-exist with more antivirus products are being added all the time. The idea behind this co-existence is that Immunet watches what another antivirus product might be doing to protect the user on the desktop to learn about new threats so "we're harnessing the collective power on another A/V," Friedrichs says. Immunet is mainly focused on core file-based threats, and when it comes to Web downloads, "we'll catch the threat if it hits your hard drive." Immunet operates its own crawlers and sensors to collect evidence of threats. As to whether Immunet now feels in competition with Symantec, where Friedrichs and Huger used to work, Friedrichs will only say, "We have a good working relationship with them. The companies work together on many cases." Read more about wide area network in Network World's Wide Area Network section. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| BitDefender antivirus breaks Windows (TechWorld) Posted: 22 Mar 2010 03:36 AM PDT Users of the BitDefender antivirus software started flooding the company's support forums, apparently after a faulty antivirus update caused 64-bit Windows machines to stop working. The company acknowledged the issue in a note explaining the problem. "Due to a recent update it is possible that BitDefender detects several Windows and BitDefender files as infected with Trojan.FakeAlert.5," the company said. The acknowledgement came after BitDefender users had logged hundreds of posts on the topic. Some complained of being unable to reboot their systems. BitDefender Antivirus 2010 review | Microsoft Windows architect says ditch the kernel | Windows needs patching every five days "EVERY file that is trying to run is getting quarantined," one user, identified as lhmathys, reported. "Windows Explorer and even Bitdefender update itself is being quarantined. Someone really screwed this one up." "We are in a really terrible position now," wrote another user, identified as ufitec. "We have 150 business clients and most of the PCs [on] which BitDefender thinks everything is virus does not boot any more!!!!" In its note on the issue, the company said it had issued a fix for the problem and offered instructions on how to repair the damage, saying that customers should remove files from quarantine and reboot. Users who can't do that need to either use Windows' Last Known Good Configuration restore or System Restore options. Earlier in the day, the company had advised users to disable the BitDefender antivirus module and wait for a new definition update, which is supposed to correct the problem. BitDefender did not reply to several messages asking for comment. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| BitDefender apologises for faulty antivirus update (PC Advisor) Posted: 22 Mar 2010 04:24 AM PDT March 22, 2010 Customer support pages offer solutionBitDefender has apologised to users affected by a faulty antivirus update and updated its customer support pages to offer a fix for machines that have stopped working. The security firm confirmed a recent update was faulty and had caused 64bit Windows to stop working. "Due to a recent update it is possible that BitDefender detects several Windows and BitDefender files as infected with Trojan.FakeAlert.5," the company said on its website.
Some complained of being unable to reboot their systems. "EVERY file that is trying to run is getting quarantined," one user, identified as lhmathys, reported. "We are very sorry for the problems people may have had in regards to this issue," Matt Kicks fromBitDefender said. The security firm has issued a patch and its customer support pages offer detailed information on installing the fix. Home users of BitDefender 2010 and BitDefender 2009 should follow these instructions, while BitDefender Business Client users should use this solution and BitDefender Security for File Servers users must follow these instructions. Kicks said the support articles are being updated as soon as new solutions are implemented. See also: BitDefender tool removes Conficker worm
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