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Panda USB Vaccine

You once brought your thumb drive and inserted into your friend’s computer but unknowingly a virus hops onto your thumb drive just so that later it also infects your home computer. Panda Security’s is providing a free solution to this problem through its Panda USB Vaccine that blocks autorun malwares from infecting a thumb drive or hard drive (this is not a virus removal tool).

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Panda Cloud Antivirus Beta

Just a short introductory to Panda Security’s latest security software, the Panda Cloud Antivirus, now available for free in BETA version. The Panda Cloud Antivirus is said to be based on a newly designed protection model that utilizes PandaLab’s Collective Intelligence server that is constantly and automatically updated by Panda Antivirus users whenever there is a threat detected. Therefore all of Panda Antivirus users are quickly protected by the new threats.

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ESET Smart Security 4 Beta Preview

ESET Smart Security 4 Public Beta 1 was released last November 2008.  The ESET Smart Security is a security suite combining top-notch anti-virus, firewall and anti-spam modules. Well, on first impression, we like what they did with the user interface - simple, informative and yet responsive.

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Downadup worm, 1.9mil PCs, worldwide infection!

It wasn’t such a big issue last December but Downadup has taken over about 1.9 million unpatch Windows-based computers  to date as reported on F-Secure Blog. Downadup or some vendors might call it Conficker or Kido exploits the PC through the MS08-067 vulnerability.

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F-Secure Anti-virus 2009 Preview

F-Secure Anti-virus 2009 Preview

F-Secure launched three security products line-up on 3rd September 09 - F-Secure Anti-virus 2009, F-Secure Internet Security 2009 and F-Secure Home Server Security 2009. The three mentioned computer security products are promoted under the ONLINE WELLBEING campaign and it boldly claims to be the fastest protection in the online world. Dr. Safemode is proud once again to perform a short review on F-Secure Anti-virus 2009.

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