Microsoft&#39;s Hotmail drops McAfee for Trend Micro
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Microsoft Corp. has chosen the antivirus software maker Trend Micro Inc. to protect Microsoft&#39;s widely used Hotmail Internet e-mail service, dropping most of the antivirus services it had been getting from McAfee.
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McAfee says that a new managed email service will help small businesses handle the deluge of spam and viruses pounding their networks.
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Antivirus software specialist Trend Micro (Nasdaq: TMIC) is extending its expertise to next-generation handheld devices with the launch of Mobile Security, an application aimed at smartphones and PDAs.
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Trend Micro is offering free trials of its new security software for mobile phones and PDAs. Trend Micro&#39;s Mobile Security suite offers antivirus and anti-spam defence for the more sophisticated phones and
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AOL is the latest and largest company to back away from Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID software, designed to cut spam by identifying the source of the email.
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Glitches between Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and critical applications continue to emerge, with McAfee admitting its flagship VirusScan product prior to version 7.1 requires a customised patch to be operational with Windows Security Center, part of SP2
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Trend Micro, a rival anti-virus firm to Symantec, made an announcement stating that it will offer its anti-virus and anti-spam security software for free to users until June, 2005.
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Made nervous by the announcement that McAfee&#39;s (MFE:NYSE - news - research) CFO plans to resign, investors on Tuesday sold off shares of the antivirus maker.
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Security software firm Trend Micro (Quote, Chart) today announced it had completed a deal with Microsoft (Quote, Chart) to provide virus scanning, protection and cleaning for its Hotmail Web-based e-mail service.
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Trend Micro said the agreement with Hotmail will allow them to provide anti-virus scanning and cleaning protection for the 187 million email accounts Hotmail currently hosts.
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Trend Micro has announced an agreement with MSN to provide antivirus scanning and cleaning protection to MSN Hotmail email accounts.
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Apple has stopped offering the latest version of McAfee's anti-virus package to Mac users following reports of widespread problems with the software.
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Trend Micro Inc.&#39;s (TMIC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) shares rose as much as 14 percent on Monday after the security firm said it will supply antivirus scanning and cleaning protection for Microsoft Corp.
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(InfoWorld) - McAfee Inc. has apologized to users for bugs in the company's new line of client protection software, released last month. In an e-mail sent to some users last week, McAfee Executive Vice President Bill Kerrigan acknowledged that there had been glitches in the roll out. "We would like to extend our sincere apologies to anyone who may have had problems with their computers due to the upgrade," he wrote. Not all McAfee customers have been given the new software, which is going through a phased roll out, according to a McAfee spokeswoman. However, users who receive software updates from McAfee directly, or who purchased the software in the past month may have had problems, she said. Both McAfee and rival Symantec Corp. have been contending with Microsoft Corp.'s recent entry into the antivirus market, hoping to stay one step ahead of their new competitor. With this new line of products, code-named "Falcon," McAfee introduced a new user interface as well as its SiteAdvisor Web site-rating software. McAfee estimates that fewer than 1 percent of customers who downloaded the new software have had difficulties, but the problems they experienced could be annoying. The new software didn't work well with some ISP (Internet service provider) software, causing browsing slow-downs for some users, the company said. And customers who had disabled firewall protection would be presented with notification messages that could not be ignored, an annoyance for some. Some customers were simply confused by the new user interface, McAfee added. "While we believe no oneâs computer protection was compromised, we have worked quickly and hard to resolve the issues," Kerrigan said. "In fact, we have already sent out an update that automatically fixed the glitches caused by the upgrade." Customers who have complained about the bugs are being offered a free 3-month extension to their subscription, a McAfee spokeswoman said. The bugs made Web surfing a drag, said Matt Saefkow a programmer in Cleveland. "One out of every 10 images would not load unless I refreshed the page a number of times, " he said. "I was frustrated to the point where I no longer had any interest in trying to fix a program that should have helped my computer stay alive." Even before this latest update, Saefkow had experienced problems running FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and P-to-P (peer-to-peer) software on his PC, but the Web browsing bug was the last straw, he said. He has chronicled his difficulties with theÂ software on his blog. He now plans to remove the McAfee software and download a free product, which he hopes will be less of a drain on his PC. "When McAfee itself is causing a computer to feel like it's affected [by malicious software] that's counterproductive," Saefkow said. "I'm not going to be spending money on antivirus." Â
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Online security software maker Trend Micro Inc yesterday announced an agreement with Micro-soft Corp to provide anti-virus scanning and cleaning protection for its MSN Hotmail Web-based e-mail accounts.
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In a move which Microsoft claims will help fight spammers, MSN Hotmail users are facing charges if they want to access the email service via the Outlook email client.
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NEW YORK - When Microsoft decided to throttle back on some of the features of its Hotmail Web-based e-mail service, it didn&#39;t affect me one bit.