Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Almost a third of the customers who have installed Microsoft's free Security Essentials software have been found to be suffering from major malware infections.
Microsoft, which launched the free Security Essentials package for
Windows in late September in eight major markets, revealed the figure
as it prepares to roll out the software in China.
"What we're seeing in the early downloads is that well over 30% of
people who are downloading it are requiring a fair amount of cleaning,"
said Amy Barzdukas, general manager, Internet Explorer and consumer
security at Microsoft.
Delivering the opening keynote at RSA Conference Europe in London,
Barzdukas also noted that the problems experienced by consumers varied
widely by area.
"In China, we see a lot of malicious browser modifiers. In Brazil,
there's a lot of password stealers. In Korea, there's a lot of
polymorphous viruses. There's no one size fits all in consumer security
any more than in enterprise security."
Microsoft's move into the consumer security space has been
controversial, with critics variously arguing that Microsoft will
reduce competition in the security sector and that it should
concentrate on making its core operating system more secure. However,
Barzdukas said that Windows itself was only a small part of the problem.
"Fewer than 15% of the vulnerabilities that are being exploited today
are in the browser or the OS. Instead they're going into third party
software and add-ons."
Barzdukas also took a pot shot at Google's rival browser Chrome,
claiming that features of its design made it less secure than Internet
Explorer 8.
"As you type in that omnibox, every keystroke that you type is sending a packet to Google."
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