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AVG Internet Security 8.0 Review

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AVG introduced their latest AVG 8.0 on February 27, 2008 with a set of new improved features. Dr. Safemode is pleased to bring you the review for AVG’s latest security solution, AVG Internet Security 8.0. AVG was founded since 1991 and has been providing computer security solutions to home and business users. AVG made a global impact when they started offering free anti-virus solution for home users. To date, AVG Anti-virus is the most popular software on Download.com.

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Norton AntiVirus Dual Protection for MAC

Symantec releases two new solutions

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.

Avast! Anti-virus celebrates 50,000,000 user registrations

ALWIL SoftwareALWIL 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 Anti-virus 8.0 released

AVG TechnologiesAVG 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 Anti-virus 2008 Review

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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