读新闻学英语：赛门铁克展示2008年消费者市场安全软件

Symantec unveils 2008 consumer security software
It added new browser protection for IE (为IE浏览器添加新防护)

New words:
unveil=to show or tell people about a new product or plan for the first time.

 

Symantec Corp. launched new editions of its consumer Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security (NIS) software today, adding new browser defenses for some users in both packages and wrapping features from its new identity initiative into the suite.
赛门铁克发布了新版本的诺顿防病毒和诺顿网络安全特警软件，把Identity Initiative（用于保护网络账户和在线交易的安全产品）中的浏览器防护功能加到了上述产品集。“packages and wrapping features”不太懂。

 

The 2008 versions boast several new features and enhancements, including something that Symantec is calling Browser Defender, which is behavioral-based technology that inspects all ActiveX, JavaScript and VBScript code executing within Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser.
2008版本包括一些新特性和增强，包括浏览器防御，这是一种行为检测技术，检查所有的通过IE浏览器执行的ActiveX，JavaScript和VBScript代码。

 

"It provides zero-day protection in the browser," said Ed Kim, the director of product management for Symantec's consumer products group, "but not just IE. It protects against attacks on any third-party application run within the browser, like QuickTime or Adobe [Reader]. Anything that has an ActiveX component."
2008版本可以提供零时差防护（行为检测技术是最新的安全防护技术，不同于基于特征码的防护技术，不存在空窗期），且不只保护IE，还可以保护任何基于浏览器来运行的第三方应用，像QuickTime或Adobe [Reader]等所有使用ActiveX组件的东西。

New words:
zero-day protection 零时差保护

 

Browser Defender, which is integrated within both Norton AntiVirus 2008 and Norton Internet Security (NIS) 2008, is also able to see through attack code obfuscation techniques, claimed Kim. "Other security [applications] rely on a few simple de-obfuscation routines or look at the script itself. But we will wait until the threat uncloaks, then look at the [API] call before that call is made."
浏览器防御技术可以看穿攻击代码的迷惑技术，其它的安全产品仅靠一些简单的破解规程来检查脚本，我们会等到威胁出现之后，在API调用被执行之前检查这些API调用。

New words:
obfuscation=to deliberately make something unclear or difficult to understand
uncloak=cloak是斗蓬，大衣，所以uncloak就是脱去伪装，显露出本性。

 

Out of the gate, Browser Defender only protects users running Internet Explorer. Firefox users will have to wait. "We went with IE, given that it's the most prevalent browser," Kim said. Firefox support is in what Kim dubbed "the planning stage," with no timetable yet set.
目前浏览器防御只保护IE，因为它应用广泛，Firefox用户还要等等，现在只是计划阶段，没有具体的时间表。

New words:
prevalent=common at a particular time, in a particular place, or among a particular group of people

 

Other new features in NIS include Norton Identity Safe, the new name of the tool that Symantec has called Norton Identity Client since its January debut at the Demo 07 conference. Part of the company's long-range plan to move into identity protection, the addition to NIS is a first-generation effort to offer a tool that lets users control what information is transmitted to Web sites and fills in forms and password fields automatically.
其它的安全特性包括“Norton Identity Safe”，这一工具在Demo 07大会上初次登场时叫“Norton Identity Client”。它是赛门铁克公司向身份保护移动的长期计划的一部分，加入网络安全特警的是第一代产品，用户可以通过该工具控制哪些信息可以传送到网站，并自动填入表单域和密码域。

New words:
debut=the first public appearance of an entertainer, sports player etc or of something new and important

 

Both products are available immediately for download from Symantec's online store, and they will be available through retailers shortly, Kim said. Prices for the security software have not changed from last year: Norton AntiVirus 2008 sells for $39.99, while NIS 2008 costs $69.99 for a three-PC license.
上述产品可以通过赛门铁克的在线商店下载，也很快会进入零售商店铺，价钱与去年一样。

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