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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As of Feb 7 2008, Adobe Reader 8.1.2 update has been released to address a remotely exploitable issue and providing support for Mac OS X Leopard. As reported by the SANS Internet Storm Center, there is an Adobe Reader exploit already in the wild. The malicious PDF file is serve to users by an infected internet banner on a website and that no current anti-virus is able to detect it. You can read the security bulletin on Adobe’s website although it does not provide in-depth information about the exploit. Download Adobe Reader 8.1.2 now!
Guess what? About a week ago, we did a short review on Comodo Firewall Pro version 2.4. This week, we bring you yet another short review on its version 3.0.15.277 which was released on January 11, 2008. We gotta say that it really does looks impressive but how well does it perform to our expectations.
On the side note, however they are still actively promoting version 2.4 due to a bigger download button which might sway visitors from clicking on the tiny “Click here for download” for its v3.0. Tricky huh. See over here. Okay, it is time for our review, read on!
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