Update: Korea's AhnLab wins anti-virus contract from Banamex
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(InfoWorld) - South Korea's leading anti-virus vendor AhnLab has landed a deal with a major Mexican bank as it looks to expand beyond Asia. The company will supply online anti-virus, keyboard security, anti-spyware and online firewall applications to Banco Nacional de MÃ©xico S.A. (Banamex), it said in a statement. With 1,500 branches and about 2 million customers Banamex is one of the largest banks in Mexico and was acquired by Citigroup in 2001. AhnLab said the deal allows it to establish a strategic base for expansion into South American markets. The company entered into a partnership with Damage Control Inc. last year under which the Mexican company would help sell its products in major central and south American markets including Mexico, Chile and Brazil, AhnLab said. The company is also looking to expand into Europe and last year took its first step into the European market by appointing a dealer in the Netherlands.
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India's Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. has received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval for clarithromycin, a generic form of Abbott Laboratories Inc.'s antibiotic Biaxin, the FDA said on Saturday.
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ID Biomedical Corp. IDB.TO IDBE.O  signed a 10-year U.S. distribution deal for its Fluviral drug  that could reap sales of $2.3 billion and help U.S. authorities  fill a flu vaccine shortage, the company said on Monday.
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The HyperTransport Technology Consortium today announced the first HyperTransport technology expansion connector specification. The new EATX Motherboard/Daughtercard
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Introgen Therapeutics Inc. on Thursday said a mid-stage trial showed that its experimental cancer drug Advexin improved treatment of advanced breast cancer and aided with the removal of tumors.
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A view from the trenches The money made from malware is eclipsing the revenue of anti-virus vendors, a leading net security vendor claims. Raimund Genes, CTO of anti-malware at Trend Micro, cites FBI figures that IT security problems cost the economy $62bn last year against IDC estimates that the anti-malware market was worth $26bn in 2005.â¦
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THE REGION Cambridge biotech company Dyax Corp. has agreed to end its deal with Genzyme Corp. to codevelop a drug for the rare swelling disorder hereditary angioedema. The firms were jointly testing DX-88, a small protein considered Dyax's most important potential drug. Dyax said it will receive all the assets of the joint development deal and $17 million cash. Genzyme ...
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(InfoWorld) - Nearly a year after Microsoft introduced Windows Live OneCare, the company's first foray into the security market is still getting low marks from analysts and users. A recent report comparing the antivirus products of various vendors ranked Microsoft's product at the bottom in terms of detecting potential security threats. At the same time, users are complaining that OneCare, which includes firewall, antivirus, backup, and antispyware software, quarantines the entire mail store of their Outlook and Outlook Express programs, making it impossible for them to retrieve e-mail. AV-Comparatives, a project in Austria overseen by security researcher Andreas Clementi, published the antivirus comparison report, which also looked at products from Symantec, McAfee, Kaspersky Lab, BitDefender, Fortinet, F-Secure, and several other antivirus products from smaller vendors. In detecting Windows viruses, worms, macros, scripts, and other OS threats, Microsoft ranked last out of the 15 vendors tested, detecting them 91 percent of the time. G Data Software AG's Anti-Virus Kit (AVK) ranked first with 99.6 percent detection, while products from three vendors -- Kaspersky Anti-Virus, MicroWorld Technologies eScan, and F-Secure Anti-Virus -- tied for second with 99 percent detection. TrustPort Antivirus Workstation from AED came in third with 98.9 percent detection. In preventing intrusion through backdoors, Trojans and in other malware detection, Windows OneCare also ranked last out of 13 vendors, with 79.6 percent detection. TrustPort came in first at 99.5 percent detection; AVK came in second with 99.4 percent detection; and AVIRA GmbH's AntiVir Personal Edition Premium came in third with 98.9 percent detection. If ranking low in its rates of malware and virus detection isn't enough to irk users, a recent update to the product has been quarantining the Outlook.PST file, which stores mail in Outlook and Outlook Express, users reported recently on a Microsoft Windows user form. "This is the most unacceptable act Microsoft has ever committed," groused one user on the forum. "I run a small business, and I am screwed. I have no way to respond to e-mails because I made the mistake of trusting Microsoft ... and all of my e-mails and contacts are gone." Microsoft confirmed the problem Friday and said it will update the Windows Live OneCare engine to fix the problem as part of its monthly patch release cycle. The company also offered the following step-by-step fix to recover lost e-mail in the meantime: *Â Close Outlook or Outlook Express *Â Click change OneCare settings in the main OneCare user interface *Â Click on the viruses and spyware tab *Â Click on the quarantine button, and then select the pst or dbx file, and then click on restore. To ensure that the problem does not continue until the next update, Microsoft said users should also do the following: *Â Click change OneCare setting in the main user interface *Â Click viruses and spyware tab *Â Click on the exclusions button *Â Click on the add folder button *Â Navigate to the specific folder that contains the .dbx or .pst file to be excluded. *Â Click OK.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to investigate claims by Trend Micro of competitors&#39; patent infringement involving antivirus products.Trend Micro filed a trade complaint Nov. 21 against fellow cybersecurity vendors Barracuda Networks of Campbell, California; Panda Software International, based in Spain; and Panda Distribution of Glendale, California.Trend Micro&#39;s complaint accuses the three companies of infringing its patent for virus detection and removal apparatus for computer networks. The technology &quot;represents a dramatic departure from the traditional antivirus methods of safeguarding individual computers,&quot; the company says in its complaint.The Trend Micro complaint accuses Barracuda of importing antivirus software that infringes its patent. The complaint says Barracuda uses code from the open-source antivirus product ClamAV, which is written in part in Europe and Australia. Barracuda also imports hardware components, the complaint says.Panda&#39;s products also contain code imported into the U.S., the Trend Micro complaint says.A Barracuda spokeswoman said the complaint is curious. &quot;It is interesting that the ITC has decided to take up an investigation, given Barracuda Networks manufactures all of its products in the United States and does not import anything of significance,&quot; said Kylie Heintz.A Panda representative didn&#39;t immediately respond to a request for comments.The ITC case will be referred to an administrative law judge, who will schedule and hold an evidentiary hearing. The judge will make an initial determination as to whether there is a violation of section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930. That initial determination is subject to commission review.The ITC will make a final determination in the investigation at the earliest practicable time, the commission said in a news release. Within 45 days, the ITC will set a target date for completing the investigation.
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InfoWorld - Barracuda Networks is getting into the Web application security business. The security vendor has acquired Santa Clara, California&#39;s NetContinuum, a vendor of Web firewall appliances. Barracuda already sells&#160;Web filtering devices&#160;that prevent Web surfers from visiting malicious sites, but the NetContinuum products can be used to protect Web sites themselves.
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Two organizations were inserted into the list after the second  paragraph: VirusBlokAda Ltd - $1,180, www.anti-virus.by  and Fortinet - $699, www.fortinet.com.  In addition, "2007" was added after "WinPatrol" and the Grisoft  information was moved to a new location within the list.
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Antivirus company offers improved anti-spyware app to users for a fee.
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Citing the urgent need to protect its users from online threats, America Online Inc. (AOL) will begin bundling antivirus software from McAfee Inc. with the latest version of its software, AOL 9.0, according to a statement from the company.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Symantec Malaysia recently announced the availability of the latest version of its system repair, antivirus and security products - Norton SystemWorks 2005, AntiVirus 2005, Personal Firewall 2005 and AntiSpam 2005.
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Everybody needs the best possible antivirus software, right? Sure, but try and get vendors to agree on how to test the contenders. Representatives of several of the big AV firms met recently to try their hand at developing a testing spec, but it's no simple task.
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(InfoWorld) - Banking and insurance conglomerate ING Group has finalized contracts worth â¬750 millionÂ ($994 million) with a consortium of companies to provide workspace services for its 53,000 employees in Europe. The contracts with Royal KPN, Getronics, Atos Origin, and AccentureÂ are each for seven years and cover the installation, maintenance, and support of desktop PCs, laptops, printers and telephones, the companies said Thursday. It's the biggest of three outsourcing deals that ING has finalized recently, worth a combined total of â¬1.3 billion. They are part of a cost-cutting plan announced last November that is designed to save the company â¬460 million per year, including â¬230 million from operations and IT. ABN AMRO Bank made a similar moveÂ last year, announcing a plan to outsource its IT operations worldwide in a series of deals worth â¬1.8 billion over five years. The bulk of that contract went to IBM. KPN took the biggest slice of the latest ING contract. It was awarded â¬269 million to provide fixed and mobile communications, call center, LAN (local area networking) and conferencing services for staff in the Netherlands and Belgium. Atos Origin was awarded â¬216 million to design and manage ING's back-end office automation, including e-mail and the active directory, and provide related support for end users. Getronics was awarded â¬213 million for help desk and on-site support for end users, as well as hardware purchasing and asset management. Accenture was awarded â¬52 million to be the "integrator," coordinating services and managing the supplier contracts. When ING announced an initial agreement with the four companies in July it said the contracts would run for five years and be worth about â¬800 million. It estimated that 550 full-time employees would be transferred to the contractors. That number will now be 430, it said Thursday. Of the earlier outsourcing contracts, on Nov. 6 ING finalized a six-year, â¬200 million deal with LogicaCMG for application management, IT maintenance and testing. And on Dec. 6 it signed a seven-year, â¬350 million contract with the U.K.'s Astron to process its banking and insurance documents.
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InfoWorld - Two companies, a door manufacturer and a dental laboratory network, have agreed to pay tens of thousands of dollars to settle Business Software Alliance (BSA) claims that they had unlicensed software on their computers.