The first time the utility called Alpha Antivirus underwent active discussion in the IT security groups was Sep.22 2009 when cyber criminals attempted and succeeded to overwhelm Google top search results with some entries which redirected to fake scanner sites.

Antivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software detection developed at the University of Michigan.

IBM today announced it will extend its Internet Security Systems (ISS) intrusion prevention technology to remote segments of the network by adding a new, lower-cost product to the IBM Proventia Network Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) family