Faulty Norton update may have hit millions of computers in China: report
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Millions of Chinese computers may have been paralysed by a faulty anti-virus update from Symantec, the world&#39;s largest security software provider, state media reported Thursday.
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A software upgrade caused some 40,000 computers to crash at the UK government&#39;s Department for Work and Pensions last week. The crash of the Windows-based systems took most of the department&#39;s computers offline for five working days.
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A routine software upgrade of Microsoft-based desktop computers led to the crash of around 40,000 machines at the UK government's Department for Work and Pensions last week.
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Update quarantined two critical system files in the Simplified Chinese version of Windows XP, affecting computers throughout China.
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OCTOBER 08, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Dell Inc. is recalling about 990,000 electrical adapters manufactured in China by Taipei, Taiwan-based Delta Electronics Inc.
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CHINA BEIJING -- Chinese law enforcement agencies destroyed nearly 13 million pirated compact discs, DVDs, and computer software yesterday in the government's latest campaign to curtail rampant theft of intellectual property, state media reported. The destroyed items were confiscated in the first half of an ongoing 100-day nationwide campaign against piracy, the Xinhua News Agency said. Police seized the items ...
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Attackers have been exploiting a recently-revealed flaw in Adobe Reader since at least Jan. 20, with one security researcher estimating that "many thousands" of computers have been infected so far.
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China says 58 percent of computer networks in the country&#39;s offices have fallen victim to Internet security problems this year.
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China has suffered &quot;massive&quot; losses of  state secrets through the Internet, a senior official said, as  China faces reports that it has raided the computer networks of  Western powers.
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A bug that affects the OLE32.DLL library in Windows XP and 2000 could crash the operating system and cause users to lose unsaved data. Microsoft said it is looking into the matter.
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DECEMBER 21, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Antivirus companies are warning Internet users about a new, fast-spreading worm that infects Web servers running a popular package of online bulletin board software and uses the Google search engine to find
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Go 910s shipped over the past few months have a virus that infects PCs when connected.
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China has been the target of a big  increase in cyber-attacks in recent years and faces more of a  threat from hackers than any country in the West, a military  researcher said on Saturday.
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(InfoWorld) - Symantec declared itsÂ compensation offerÂ for Chinese users who saw their computers damaged by a bad software update a success Sunday, but declined to say how many users had accepted the deal. Symantec ran into trouble May 18, when the company issued a faulty software update for its Norton antivirus software that wrongly identified two system files in the Simplified Chinese edition of Windows XP as malware, and quarantined them. That blunder rendered an estimated 50,000 Chinese PCs unusable, Symantec said. The incident also provoked an angry outcry from Chinese users, who demanded compensation for the damage wrought on their systems by Symantec. At least two users filed lawsuits against Symantec over damage done to their PCs by the company. Five weeks after the bad update was released, Symantec offered free software to those Chinese users who were affected. The company offered Chinese consumers a 12-month Norton license extension and a copy of Norton Save & Restore 2.0. Corporate customers were offered Symantec Ghost Solution Suite licenses, depending on the number of PCs affected. Symantec did not extend Norton licenses for corporate customers affected by the bad update. The compensation offer, which was valid for two and a half weeks starting from June 27, ended Sunday night. However, the Web site created for users to apply for compensation remained up at the time of writing, on Monday morning. In an e-mail statement sent Sunday, Symantec declared the offer a success, saying the gesture had been "well received." But the company did not offer any information to back up that claim. Symantec's offer was widely criticizedÂ in the Chinese press when it was first announced. "Symantec's response to its Chinese consumers lacks seriousness and sincerity," Alamus, the deputy director of the China Electronic Commerce Association's committee on legal and policy issues, said at that time in a report by China Central Television (CCTV), the country's national TV broadcaster. While Symantec's compensation offer officially ended Sunday, the company is keeping the door open for users who missed the July 15 deadline. "After this date anyone who missed the registration date should contact Symantec Customer Support or email symantec.authorised.support.cn@clts.com and we will give consideration to extending the date for that individual customer," the company said. Â
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Tens of thousands of Windows PCs are being hijacked daily to spread spam and viruses, a study shows.
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IT company Unisys is under investigation by the federal government following the revelation that it may have failed to detect a break-in by Chinese hackers to Homeland Security computers.
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Controversy has erupted in the open-source world over a report from the Gartner Group that predicts the vast majority of personal computers sold in Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe that