Microsoft Australia has apologised to users who have lost their entire Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail archives due to a flaw in Windows Live OneCare.
Check Point Software Technologies on Monday released an update to ZoneAlarm that comes with new features to protect against identity theft.
Microsoft plans to focus on rapid acquisitions to quickly build its security capabilities, the company said this week.
Around 70 percent of Windows Vista on home systems are infected with malware, according to PC Tools, which claims the figure is so high because UAC is very annoying and users are disabling the security feature.
Security features in Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system do not negate the need to use third-party antivirus software, according to Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin.
Antivirus specialist Symantec has joined a security organisation alongside Microsoft, despite having previously come to very public blows with the software giant over its willingness to share security information on Vista.
Microsoft's Vista may be vulnerable to at least three pieces of widespread malware, two of which date back to 2004 , according to security vendor Sophos.
Security vendors are claiming Microsoft was deliberately withholding access to its Vista spyware product, but the software giant denied the charge.
Microsoft is investigating a security vulnerability which affects Vista, its newly launched operating system.
Security company Kaspersky claimed that Vista's User Account Control (UAC), the system of user privileges that can be used to restrict users' administrative rights, will be so annoying that users will disable it.
"Enlightening and frightening" was the phrase used by a Microsoft executive to describe a hacking demonstration on a Windows XP system by two British e-crime specialists.
Antivirus experts from Kaspersky Labs have predicted that 90 percent of current malware will run on Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista.
Around 850,000 National Health Service PCs will be loaded with Microsoft desktop software.
Apple's OS X remains a safe option when compared to Microsoft Windows XP or its successor, Vista, according to antivirus firm Sophos.
Companies that produce security software may soon be ignoring certain spyware, and potentially even infecting their customers through auto updates, under orders from US government agencies.
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