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Kaspersky Lab, a leading provider of Internet security solutions that protect against all forms of viruses, spyware, rookits, hacker attacks and spam, today announced the North American release of Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009, bringing to market a new standard in anti-malware protection. With an exponential increase in malicious threats and the unprecedented sophistication of cybercriminal activities, industry experts have challenged the anti-malware...

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of Internet threat management solutions, has detected two variants of a new worm, Networm.Win32.Koobface.a. and Networm.Win32.Koobface.b, which attack MySpace and Facebook. As part of their malicious payload, the worms transform victim machines into zombie computers to form botnets. Kaspersky Lab warns users that the worms are designed to upload additional malicious modules with other functionality via the Internet. It is highly probable that victim...

By Byron Acohido The race is on to get businesses and consumers to pay for security for their cellphone the way they do for their PCs. Tech security companies see a lucrative emerging market for cellphone security products. Researcher IDC predicts businesses and consumers will spend $958 million by 2011, up from $214 million in 2006 spent mostly by corporations. Symantec, Kaspersky Lab, Trend Micro and others have stepped up consumer marketing of anti-virus subscriptions for mobile...