The News Review:
- Microsoft spins out software protection tech
- Microsoft Update Removes Rogue Antivirus Program
- Parametric acquires Relex Software
- SuccessFactors snags Siemens software deal
Microsoft spins out software protection tech
CNET News
(Credit: Microsoft)Microsoft said on Tuesday that it is spinning out as a separate business a two year-old effort that licenses its software protection technologies to other companies. In the past two years Microsoft has signed up 120 companies to use the software activation and licensing technologies including its own eHome unit. But it decided creating an independent company was the way to go.
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Microsoft Update Removes Rogue Antivirus Program
PC World
The company’s latest update to its Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) released Tuesday adds detection for this dubious program which masquerades as security software. Like all of these rogue antivirus products Internet Antivirus Pro tries to trick victims into installing the software. It pops up a fake warning message and then pretends to scan the victim’s computer. But instead of scanning for malicious software Internet Antivirus downloads password-stealing software that looks for FTP user names and passwords presumably so that its creators can install their software on Web servers. Internet Antivirus installs a browser component that displays fake messages and it also pops up a fake Windows Security Center Microsoft said in a.
Parametric acquires Relex Software
Bizjournals.com
The deal’s financial terms were not disclosed. -based Relex develops software that allows designers and engineers to test and improve product safety and reliability. PTC a Needham Mass. maker of product design and management software (Nasdaq: PMTC) will incorporate Relex’s software into its own product analysis software. Company officials say the new offering allows product designers to test and measure performance of a product using a wide variety of information. “The natural synergy between product lifecycle management and reliability engineering makes Relex a logical addition to PTC’s evolving product analytics family of solutions and underscores PTC’s holistic approach to product development” said James Heppelmann president and chief operating officer at PTC in a statement.
SuccessFactors snags Siemens software deal
Reuters
) will provide Web-based business software for 420000 workers at Germany’s Siemens AG (SIEGn. DE) in a multimillion dollar deal that will extend for more than three years. The transaction is the.