Ironically we rather spend our hard-earned cash buying the most entertaining iPhone Apps out there but wouldn’t spend a dime on a yearly paid-subscription anti-virus software. If that’s the case, installing a free anti-virus is the only way huh or more specifically Avast! Free Antivirus 5.0, the company’s latest anti-virus software for home users. Read further for our simplistic review…
Just yesterday we received a hard disk which was having a major virus dilemma. Our client told us that they were unable to login to the system (Windows XP) and previously experienced slowness in the system. Upon booting into Windows, the user profile loads momentarily but resets afterwards therefore unable to launch the desktop. So, we decided to install and test ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 onto our system. If you have followed our post, we actually did a review months back for the beta version of ESET NOD32 Smart Security 4.
We’ve always loved using Kaspersky. Yeah, not having to worry that some suspicious executable file is trying to take over your computer. Kasperksy Anti-virus 2010 comes at a price of $39.95 a year. Its latest features are the Kaspersky Internet Toolbar and Special Game Mode. Several improvements were made to the identity theft protection, urgent detection system, and proactive protection. Let’s start the review…
How would you like an anti-virus software which is specially made for gamers? Bitdefender GameSafe was launched last month to specifically target the gaming community.
One of the very troublesome matter faced by gamers are pop-up appearing during a game causing a full-screen game window to minimize. Pop-ups ranging from virus update definitions, firewall permission/blocked alert and to virus found alerts frequently disturbs the gamer from enjoying the full quality of a game.
According to Bitdefender’s GameSafe press release “A system slow-down can have a life or death consequences in the virtual world. GameSafe keeps the impact on processing power, memory and virtual memory to a minimum, allowing gamers to maintain “in-game” responsiveness and eliminating interruptions during play.”
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Computer Associates(ca) is one of those really big IT management firm providing all sorts of IT solutions to businesses. One of their areas of expertise is security management. Since most of our readers are generally home users, we will be taking a look at one of CA’s best security product for Home & Home Office - the CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2008.
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