/C O R R E C T I O N -- Search Security/
August 27 2007 - 6:22PM
PR Newswire (US)
In the news release, "Microsoft Moves Show Importance of
Maintaining Antivirus Solutions," issued August 22, by Search
Security over PR Newswire, the first paragraph, first sentence,
should read, "As reported recently by Search Security
(http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com), Microsoft has greatly
beefed up their anti-malware team by hiring four of the anti-virus
industry's top researchers" rather than "As reported recently by
TechTarget Inc. (Nasdaq: TTGT)
(http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com), Microsoft has greatly
beefed up their anti-malware team by hiring four of the anti-virus
industry's top researchers" as incorrectly transmitted by PR
Newswire. Complete, corrected release follows: SILICON VALLEY,
Calif., Aug. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As reported recently by
Search Security (http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/), Microsoft
has greatly beefed up their anti-malware team by hiring four of the
anti-virus industry's top researchers. Microsoft earlier shook up
the anti-malware industry by hiring other top talent away from
competitors such as Symantec Corp. and McAfee, Inc. Such moves show
the importance being placed by the software giant for developing
anti-virus and staying ahead of viruses, spyware and worms. The
recent additions to Microsoft's team -- hired away from CA -- are
Jakub Kaminski, a 30-year veteran of the technology industry and
former head of CA's Australian antivirus research lab, and three of
his colleagues from the same location. Corporations go to great
lengths to protect systems from malware -- a threat that only seems
to worsen as time goes on. Keeping anti-malware software constantly
updated, and ensuring virus scans and performed on all company
computers regularly is part and parcel of properly maintaining a
computer system. What many IT personnel may not realize, however,
is the impact of disk file fragmentation on virus scan run times.
When files are split into hundreds or even thousands of fragments
(a not-uncommon scenario today), a virus scan will of course take
significantly longer having to scan each fragment of each file. Not
only do longer virus scans mean higher susceptibility to quickly
catching and heading off viruses, spyware or worms, it also means a
greater tax on system resources. Regularly defragmenting drives can
significantly reduce the time it takes to perform regular antivirus
scans, increasing the operating safety of an enterprise's computers
as well as economizing on resources. Keeping hard drives
fragmentation free, however, can be more of a task than it used to
be. Because of exponentially increasing disk capacity, as well as
ever-increasing file sizes, fragmentation occurs at
higher-than-ever rates. This could mean that, with many
defragmentation solutions, fragmentation is not being completely
eliminated, and the effort may still result in longer-than-needed
antivirus scans. Therefore, it is not only important to employ a
defragmentation solution -- attention should be paid to the
defragmentation technology as well. For most sites, manual
defragmentation -- the launching of a defragmenter system-by-system
when desired or needed -- is no longer an option due to
fragmentation levels and time required for a defragmenter to run.
For many years, defragmenters have been available with scheduling
options which would allow specific times for defragmentation to be
set. In the last few years, however, even scheduled defragmentation
is starting to become out-of-date -- it simply cannot keep up with
fragmentation rates and disk sizes, and evolution of
defragmentation technology that will work constantly in the
background has begun to appear. The malware threat is always there.
The solution is to always keep your anti-malware solution
up-to-date, regularly perform antivirus scans of all systems, and
keep disks thoroughly defragmented so antivirus scans use the least
amount of time and system resources possible. DATASOURCE: Search
Security CONTACT: Amanda Gilmore of SS|PR, +1-847-415-9320, , for
TechTarget, Inc. Web site: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/
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