IMlogic with McAfee Inc., Sybari Software, Yahoo, America Online, and Microsoft, among others, launched an instant messaging (IM) threat center clearinghouse to stop IM viruses, malicious software code, and spam before they occur, according to an announcement by IMlogic. The IMlogic Threat Center provides a central location for detecting and analyzing IM and peer-to-peer threats. It also plans to alert IM users of threats and help protect against them. The center will include a knowledge base of threats and use honeypots to detect IM and P2P threats. This has been added to Internet Alerts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [Edupage 12-08-04]
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