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Symantec Buys MessageLabs

Security company Symantec has reached into its wallet and spent $695 million on MessageLabs, with plans to pull into technology into its Symantec Protection Network Team. MessageLabs is a messaging and security company.

MessageLabs customers will be moved to the Symantec Protection Network Team, then to a new Symantec SaaS (software-as-a-service) product group.

John W. Thompson, chairman and chief executive at Symantec, said:

"MessageLabs extends our investments in the SaaS segment and will allow us to offer our customers unprecedented choice from a single provider of message security solutions."  Read more...

MessageLabs Offering Free Webinar On MyDoom

MessageLabs is offering a free webinar entitled “The week the email security landscape shifted” on Wednesday February 11.

“The last week of January 2004 proved to be one of the busiest and most challenging in the world of email security. Whether the impact of the numerous virus outbreaks that occurred is the blueprint for things to come remains to be seen. What we can be sure of is that if multiple viruses continue to be released within such a short period of time, many organisations are going to have to change their approach to email security.”

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Mydoom Is Fastest Spreading Virus Ever

British security firm MessageLabs is reporting that this week’s “Mydoom” worm has become the fastest spreading virus ever.

MessageLabs, reports it has intercepted more than 1.2 million copies of the new mass-mailer worm known as W32/Mydoom.A-mm and is seeing a peak infection rate of 1 in 12 emails. MessageLabs has issued a high-level alert for businesses.

The worm was first intercepted by MessageLabs on January 26th, 2004 at 8:03 a.m. ET and as of 9:00 a.m. ET January 27th, MessageLabs had stopped more than 1.2 million copies of the virus, while providing 100% protection against the virus for all of its 8,000 business customers worldwide who use the company’s anti-virus service.  Read more...

Bagle Virus Getting Stale

Why people are still clicking on executables in their e-mail we’ll never know, but the “Bagle” virus that caused problems earlier in the week is starting to die down.

According to MessageLabs, “W32/Bagle-mm is a mass mailing worm that arrives in an executable attachment. Analysis suggests that the worm includes a backdoor component that listens for connection to a malicious user and can send notification of an infected machine. It also appears that the worm may attempt to downlaod a Trojan proxy component known as Backdoor-CBJ.”

Data on the MessageLabs site shows the rate of infection rapidly declining.

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