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October 2005
  News
+ Hacking, Viruses top concerns for enterprises

+ Tax breaks for cybersecurity firms?

+ Shoppers use blogs for bargains

+ Mobile phone virus tries leaping to PCs

+ Two-wave Bagle Trojan attack launched
 
  Featured Article
TECH TALK: Internet Tea Leaves: Endgame - Rajesh Jain

The logical question is: What is the endgame? Where are we heading towards? I can think of the answer as a combination of the Memex and Mirror Worlds. The Memex is a manifestation of Vannevar Bush's idea of 1945. Mirror Worlds are what David Gelernter proposed in his book of the same name in 1991. (Another related theme is the Metaverse idea put forth by Neal Stephenson is his 1992 book "Snow Crash.")

The Memex (meaning memory extender) can be thought of as a sort of forget-me-not. Today, we use Google as the window to the world of information. But search is just one way to navigate the web.


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  Netcore at GITEX

GITEX, one of the world's top 3 IT exhibitions was held in Dubai this year. The event was a great success and remains focused on the latest technology and IT services. With the demand for IT services, IT market continues to rise in the Middle East which is one of the reasons why this event makes a boom every year.

Netcore Solutions Pvt. Ltd. launched its services Emergic CleanMail at the mega event. Emergic CleanMail is an Internet-based filtering service to monitor and filter e-mail traffic to protect against spam mails, virus attacks and save bandwidth. Netcore was able to demonstrate its service and its features to a mass population of IT companies from different countries. Netcore received a very positive and valuable response at the event.

  Emergic CleanMail Security Update

Spam Statistics
77.51% of mails for corporate India were spams for the month of September.  

Latest Virus
W32.Magflag.A@mm

W32.Magflag.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that spreads to file sharing networks. It also downloads and executes remote files. It sends a copy of itself to email addresses gathered from the compromised computer and modifies the registry entry in an attempt to bypass the Windows firewall. The subject of the email varies and usually carries Rechnung.pdf.exe as an attachment. The worm has high distribution capabilities and low damaging capabilities.

Top 5 virus in India

a) W32/Netsky.P@mm - 29.19 %

b) W32/Netsky.Q@mm - 9.67 %

c) W32/Mytob.BH@mm - 7.51 %

d) W32/Mytob.AT@mm - 3.70 %

e) W32/Mytob.EK@mm - 3.40 %

The statistics in this report are estimated on the basis of the mail traffic arriving on the Netcore's Emergic CleanMail servers with an average of 1 million mails hitting the servers daily. The statistics represent the mail traffic for Corporate Indian Clients and doesn't account for traffic to free email addresses.

  Customer Speak

Godrej is now secured!

Godrej Infotech has procured Emergic CleanMail, an anti-virus and anti-spam software from Netcore Solution for Godrej Group. Godrej Infotech now partners with Netcore for its technology and implementation of services for their clients. This is what they have to say about the services...

“Implementation of Emergic CleanMail in Godrej environment has resulted in blocking of 75% of spam & virus traffic. Web-based reporting feature in ECM helped us in analyzing statistics & taking actions. Linux based solution & less hardware resources has resulted in lowered total cost of ownership”.

Raut Sushil S.
Head – Operations & Technology
Godrej Infotech Ltd.

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