Interactive Week Feb 1 2002 2:10PM ET
Interactive Week Feb 1 2002 2:10PM ET
A new service from McAfee will soon let you discover whether anyone is hacking into your system, and if so, let you submit that information to the malicious user’s ISP or local law enforcement officials.
The project, known as HackerWatch.org, is an ambitious attempt by McAfee, a division of Network Associates best known for its antivirus products, to create an interactive anti-hacker community online. But will it make a difference?
Sam Curry, who has overseen firewall development at McAfee for some time, said HackerWatch is intended “not to start any witch hunts, but to get good quality information” from its users. To help it reach that goal, McAfee recently merged with NeoWorx, a company best known for NeoTrace, a product used by law enforcement to trace malicious users.
