“We suspect an unauthorized transaction on your account.  To ensure that your account is not compromised, please click the link below and confirm your identity.”

An e-mail communication that reads like this has probably appeared in your inbox recently.  Sounds official, doesn’t it?  Judging from the header on the e-mail, a trusted source has sent it – a government agency, your bank, your Internet service provider.

What will you do?

Anytime you receive an online request for personal information, you should treat it with a healthy dose of suspicion.  What appears to be a trusted source may, in fact, not be what it claims to be.  Chances are high that you have become a target of a highly individualized and persuasive attempt to steal your personal information for malicious purposes.  Phishing, as this type of attack is called, has become increasingly common.

A phishing attack can originate when personal data is stolen. Not much is required.  Bits of data can be simple enough, such as your e-mail address, telephone number and birthday. But those bits hold the potential for creating a profile of you that can be easily expanded through access to other sources of online information.

Resumes and CVs are a reservoir of

Tuesday, 2 October 2007, 1:52 pm
Press Release: Symantec News ReleaseNew Symantec Endpoint Security Solution Now Available

Beta customers experience significant cost-savings and increased security with new integrated offering

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) raised the bar today for enterprise security by announcing the global availability of Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Symantec Network Access Control 11.0. Symantec Endpoint Protection integrates Symantec AntiVirus with advanced threat prevention in a single agent managed through a single console, delivering unmatched defence against malware and data loss for laptops, desktops and servers.

Today Symantec also released results from a third-party study of Symantec Endpoint Protection beta customers quantifying the operational efficiencies gained through the integrated, single agent endpoint security solution. The study, which was conducted by the Alchemy Group in August and September, highlights Symantec Endpoint Protection’s ability to significantly reduce the cost and complexity of securing endpoints in diverse business environments.

Highlights of the summary include:
• The ability to manage IT security operations from Symantec Endpoint Protection’s single management console has the potential to reduce the number of current management hours by an average of 75 percent. One customer expects to save 97 percent of the hours dedicated to weekly

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Also this month, we have two valuable products from Symantec now available through TechSoup Stock to help keep your computer protected. Norton Confidential 2007 helps guard against identity theft, phishing attacks, and malicious software. You can also request Norton Save & Restore 2.0 for all of your organization’s computers to make sure your data is backed up in case of a hard drive failure.

 

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AltiGen has tested and certified Symantec AntiVirus 10.1 Enterprise Edition for the MAX1000.
Under Symantec AntiVirus > Configurate > File System Auto-Protect >
> Exclude selected files and folders > Exclusions > Files/Folders, exclude the following folders:
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\postoffice
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\AltiServ
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\AltiDB
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