Symantec Corp recently announced the new Norton AntiVirus Dual Protection for MAC users. This anti-virus solution is targeted at MAC users who are running the Boot Camp or Microsoft visualization software so that they can have Norton AntiVirus installed on both the MAC OS and the Windows OS. This comes at a price of $69.90 which includes the Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac and the Norton AntiVirus 2008 for Windows.
Early this month, Symantec Corp also announced the released for Norton 360 version 2.0 with newly added patent pending Browser Protection technology to protect users against drive-by-downloads. The Norton 360 is an all-in-one security solution which also includes anti-spyware, anti-phising, firewall, e-mail scanning and etc.
ALWIL Software yesterday announced their 50,000,000th user registration for their multi-award winning Avast! Anti-virus. To celebrate this event, ALWIL Software is currently offering a 25% discount on all their product, this includes the Avast! 4 Anti-Virus Professional edition. This great offer will last till 31st March 2008.
Eduard Kucera, joint-founder and CEO of ALWIL Software said “We are not resting or complacent in our approach to malware protection - in the soon to be released version 4.8 of avast! Antivirus, we have added anti-spyware capability, certified by West Coast Labs Checkmark certification process and anti-rootkit protection, as well as very strong self-protection of the product itself.”
Also stated in their press release that users can expect the release of Avast! Anti-virus version 5 in the third-quarter of 2008.
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AVG Technologies formerly Grisoft has just released their latest AVG Anti-virus 8.0 and AVG Internet Security 8.0. AVG 8.0 comes with new enhanced features to protect computers from the recent trend of web-based malware attack executed by cyber criminals. In this new version 8.0, AVG integrated LinkScanner, a real-time safe searching and surfing technologies obtained from the acquisition of Exploit Prevention Labs.
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F-Secure is among the leaders in computer security for home and business users since 1988. In 2007, F-Secure was among the first security vendor to introduce Host Based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) technology in their product line. Today, we will be reviewing F-Secure Anti-virus 2008 after a month of experiencing it.
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VirusTotal, a very cool way to scan a file with 32 anti-virus engines. You can easily use this online service to scan your downloaded e-mail attachments, files send to you by friends on instant messengers and softwares downloaded from the internet. If you’re going to use this service quite often, why not download their desktop tool. A special menu will be added to the right-click “Send to” menu so that you can easily upload a file. Read on to find out the result of one of the file I had uploaded to VirusTotal.
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