Microsoft corporate security client a year away

Since February, a group of about 100 beta testers have been looking at Microsoft's Forefront Client Security product, but that group will expand significantly in the last quarter of the year, with the introduction of a public beta program, said Paul Bryan, a director of product management with Microsoft's Security, Access and Solutions division.

Microsoft scoops up antivirus technology

In an announcement that could send reverberations throughout the antivirus software world, Microsoft confirmed yesterday that it is acquiring antivirus technology from small Romanian company GeCAD Software.

Your PC may be less secure than you think

A survey conducted by internet service provider AOL found that 20 percent of home computers were infected by a virus or worm, and that various forms of snooping programs such as spyware and adware are on a whopping 80 percent of systems.