A third component, Mailguardian Partner, is free of charge and secures communications between a corporation and its business partners, officials said. Unlike other server-based security applications, Mailguardian is easier to implement and prevents traffic bottlenecks, Vanguard officials said. Insiders are the main threat Omega Engineering learned firsthand the dangers of the disgruntled employee after a logic bomb wiped out all of its research, development, and production programs in one fell swoop. Omega, headquartered in Stamford, Conn., is a privately held company that manufactures measuring devices for agencies such as NASA and the U.S. Navy. The hidden agenda is that it is difficult to AV vendor to survive now, unless it has a monopoly in a local market.
File viruses are now quite rare.
It's a diffecult time for anti-virus vendiors and additional mergers are emminent. Symantec called Network Associates' acquisition of Dr. Viaweb officials say that the name Viaweb, and its popular Viaweb Store, will disappear.