McAfee: Proven Security - Security Spotlight
SEPTEMBER 2006    
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Find the Risks that Matter
A risk management approach can help your company get smart about how much risk you can accept based on your business. Risk management can make compliance and security management more effective and more efficient, and ultimately lower your risk.
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Get the Most from Your McAfee Products with the Global Support Lab
McAfee Global Support Lab provides our customers and partners a proving ground for McAfee's latest security offerings, allowing immediate access to real environments for evaluation and testing of product benefits through a standard web browser.
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SiteAdvisor: It's How to Stay Safe on the Web
McAfee SiteAdvisor offers your business an Internet safety guide with an easy way to protect your employees from adware, spyware, and scams while online.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
You can't protect yourself from everything. You can't stop every threat. You can't react to every software vulnerability. The conventional wisdom for enterprise security has changed.

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As a McAfee corporate customer with Gold or Platinum support, you are entitled to the very latest versions of your products. McAfee Global Support Lab allows you to gain first-hand experience in real environments containing McAfee products with walk-throughs of installation, upgrades, and configuration, so you get the most from your McAfee security investment.
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You have good reason to be a bit wary of the Web these days. Hardly a week goes by without some new horror story involving adware, spyware, or other sneaky scam making its way onto unsuspecting users' computers and wreaking havoc.
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That's Pretty Cool: Time Magazine Names McAfee SiteAdvisor to Annual 50 Coolest Websites List - Read More

Total Protection for Small Business-Advanced Named One of the Best Midmarket Products of the Year by VARbusiness Magazine - Read More

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McAfee Selected by U.S. Air Force as Standard in Intrusion Prevention - Read More



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Phone-y Money - A Growing Online Threat

For-profit malware has been increasing on the PC side for quite a few years. Malware writers have shifted their goals from gaining notoriety or personal satisfaction from the spread of their creations to the goal of filling their wallets. Read Jimmy Shah's blog about this growing threat at http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/

W32/Bacalid – A New Polymorphic Virus Spreading in the Wild

You should also read Francois Paget's blog about W32/Bacalid, a new polymorphous virus spreading in the wild. This newcomer has stealth capabilities and attempts to download some variants of the PWS-Lineage Trojan from compromised websites.

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