Trend Micro Hopes To Spread Mobile Antivirus
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The spam-blocking feature of Trend Micro&#39;s package may be more immediately useful, because bandwidth is money. Software that can prevent unwanted messages from coming through will save users cash.
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In a bid to display its suitability for consumer users, antivirus giant Trend Micro has announced it will provide antivirus scanning and cleaning protection for Microsoft&#39;s MSN Hotmail Internet e-mail customers, who number nearly 190 million.
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Virus hijacks PCs and uses them to send short message spam to mobile phones.
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BASE thinking Trend Micro has declared war on botnets, opening a zombie PC pest control service for ISPs and other big network providers.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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Trend Micro has announced an agreement with MSN to provide antivirus scanning and cleaning protection to MSN Hotmail email accounts.
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Shares of Trend Micro Inc., the world&#39;s third-largest maker of antivirus software, are set for their biggest gain in almost six months after Microsoft Corp.
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Security firms are warning about a smartphone virus that can spread much faster than similar bugs.
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Cell phones are becoming frequent targets for viruses, spam and other malicious attacks because most are not programmed with protective software.- The Washington Post
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CUPERTINO, Calif., June 25  /PRNewswire/ -- Trend Micro Incorporated , a leader in network antivirus and Internet content security software and services, today announced that its previous agreement with Microsoft Corp. has been extended to the successor to MSN Hotmail, Windows Live Hotmail.
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Security systems can now block the  first computer viruses attack on cell phones, but the mobile  industry sees new risks stemming from upcoming open software  platforms such as Google's  Android.
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Trend Micro Mobile Security is designed to protect data-centric mobile devices such as smartphones against viruses and short message service (SMS) spam.
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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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Anti-virus protection will ship later this month with some new phones in Japan, a harbinger of cellular threats to come. Security products are already available for handheld
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If the Calendar 2004 bustled with serial virus outbreaks, increased bot programmes, spam and phishing incidences, the Calendar 2005 can also expect a similar internet-based spam and virus attacks, warns Trend Micro Corporation, an expert in anti-virus
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Mobile operators are starting to feel  the pinch from viruses resulting from the increasing use of  e-mails and Internet browsing on cellphones, according to an  industry study published on Monday.
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Barracuda Networks plans to focus on finding prior art to defend itself and the open-source ClamAV project against patent claims by rival antivirus vendor Trend Micro, which stressed Tuesday that it owns a tested and valid patent.Barracuda, facing a Trend Micro complaint before the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), will work on showing the agency that other companies used gateway antivirus scanning before Trend Micro received its patent in 1997, Barracuda said Tuesday. Barracuda, based in California, uses ClamAV code in some of its products.&quot;In their claim, Trend Micro is seeking an interpretation of its ... patent such that would give it exclusive control of gateway antivirus scanning,&quot; said Kylie Heintz, spokeswoman for Barracuda.&quot;We believe that neither our products, nor the free and open-source ClamAV software, infringe the patent, and further we believe that the patent itself is invalid due to prior art,&quot; Heintz said.The USITC launched a formal investigation of the patent claims in December.Barracuda&#39;s announcement that it intended to find prior art spurred action in the open-source community. Early Tuesday, Groklaw, a blog focused on open-source legal issues, posted an announcement asking for help finding prior art.But Trend Micro, which filed the USITC complaint in November, has a &quot;known and time-tested patent,&quot; said Michael Sweeny, a spokesman for Trend Micro. The company won a similar dispute with rival Fortinet before the USITC in May 2005, Trend Micro noted. Fortinet later settled the patent claims, getting a license from Trend Micro.In addition,&#160;Trend Micro filed a similar complaint&#160;against Panda Software International and Panda Distribution, which use a proprietary software package, said Mark Davis, Trend Micro&#39;s outside counsel. Trend Micro has not targeted the ClamAV project, he said. &quot;This is purely against commercial competitors,&quot; Davis added.Commercial software vendor Sourcefire purchased the ClamAV project in August. Sourcefire declined to comment on the patent dispute.Open-source software is not the issue in the USITC complaint, Sweeny added. &quot;We can&#39;t see how this would negatively impact open-source development,&quot; he said.Barracuda CEO Dean Drako called scanning for viruses at the gateway &quot;an obvious and common technique&quot; used by most businesses. Almost anyone, including the owners of more than 1 million ClamAV installations, could be sued by Trend Micro if the company&#39;s patent claims hold up, he said in a statement.Barracuda, maker of hardware containing cybersecurity products, has won support in the dispute from the Software Freedom Law Center, a group working to protect open-source software. The law center is grateful to Barracuda for fighting the patent, said Eben Moglen, the center&#39;s founding director. &quot;Collective defense from software patents is a shared responsibility for everyone in the free software ecosystem,&quot; he said in a statement.Barracuda has a pending lawsuit seeking to invalidate the patent in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose division.Trend Micro is misusing the USITC because it&#39;s filing a trade complaint asking the agency to bar importation of a product against a company based in the U.S., Barracuda added. &quot;Barracuda Networks designs and manufactures all of the products in question in the United States,&quot; Drako said in his statement. &quot;We believe Trend Micro&#39;s actions are a blatant abuse of the U.S. legal system.&quot;But Trend Micro said the USITC is an appropriate venue for the patent complaint. The 2005 Fortinet ruling was also against a company based in the U.S., Davis said. &quot;There appear to be several components that are imported,&quot; he said.Trend Micro&#39;s USITC complaint says Barracuda uses code from ClamAV, which is written in part in Europe and Australia. Barracuda also imports hardware components, the complaint says.