Microsoft's free security download, Morro, only offers antimalware protection for users' PCs. But the announcement was enough to trigger falling shares for both Symantec and McAfee...

Microsoft Corp's upcoming security software is not designed to take sales from Symantec Corp and McAfee Inc as it is a stripped-down, free product that focuses purely on anti-virus protection,...

Microsoft plans to stop accepting paid subscriptions to Windows Live OneCare in mid-2009. The security software is slated to be replaced by a free offering code-named Morro, which will focus on...

Microsoft has announced plans to offer free anti-virus software to PC users starting next year...

Microsoft said Tuesday that it will discontinue its OneCare PC protection offering next June, replacing it with a thinner, free offering, "Morro," focused solely on anti-malware protection...

Credit John Thompson for having impeccable timing. Of course, the timing of his resignation announcement as chief executive officer from Symantec was purely coincidental, falling just one day b...

Microsoft Corp said Wednesday it will discontinue sales of its subscription PC security service and instead offer free software to help protect computers from viruses, spyware and other threats...

Software updates, or "patches," have become such a crucial component of network security, that a day of the week has been dedicated to them: "Patch Tuesday" is when Microsoft Corp. releases reg...

Microsoft rated one vulnerability with the less severe "important" ranking, but experts say that the glitch allows remote hackers to execute malicious code on unpatched computers...

Attacks on operating systems may be decreasing since last year, but attacks on applications, incidents of malware, and unwanted software are rising and account for 90 percent of vulnerabilities,...