According to a recent report from SecureList, viruses and other malware attempted to execute over 540 million infections globally in the second quarter of 2010. To protect their users from these malcious threats, ParetoLogic has launched latest defence against viruses, spyware, adware, and other malicious software. ParetoLogic Anti-Virus PLUS version 7 offers enhanced threat detection and removal and adds new features to improve the user’s experience. As well as redesigning the interface, developers also dramatically improved scan times and system resource footprint.
Version 7 of ParetoLogic Anti-Virus PLUS has two significant technological advances. The first one delivers enhanced rootkit removal. Rootkits act as “burrowing” malware, and entrench themselves so deep in a users system that they are some of the most difficult to remove.
“ParetoLogic Anti-Virus PLUS now gives users state-of-the-art protection against these dangerous potential threats,” said Elton Pereira, Cofounder, President and CEO of ParetoLogic. “We know that infections are on the rise, and paired with heuristic detection, our software will keep people safer than ever.”
So-called heuristic detection is the most recent development in security software, and the second of ParetoLogic Anti-Virus PLUS 7’s advances. Rather than relying on a database of found and catalogued malware samples, heuristic detection is behavioral based.
There are a large number of different types of malware, but their actual goals and methods of operation all follow a similar pattern,” explained Jean Taggart, Security Analyst at ParetoLogic. “Heuristic detection is able to recognize a suspicious file or process, even if that specific piece of malware was never programmatically analyzed, or examined by a malware researcher. This is achieved by looking at behaviour, or common traits.”
The ParetoLogic Anti-Virus PLUS update also adds Windows 7 support and a sleek interface to match the popular new operating system. Additional software improvements resulted in shorter scan times, and a lighter system footprint. These upgrades allow users to scan their system without slowing down their other applications or tasks.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
One of the biggest burdens of protecting yourself against viruses, spyware, and other threats has been the degree to which security software can be problematic itself. Norton and Trend Micro are both announcing new versions of their software today with a focus on providing security that you can welcome onto your computer–and better yet, largely ignore once it’s there–rather than stress over.
Symantec’s products once had particularly bad reputations for being a resource-sapping, in-your-face hogs. The company has spent the past couple of years paying penance by reducing the load that new versions put on your system and the demands they place on your attention. It says that its 2011 editions are faster than both their predecessors and its competition, and that it’s reduced the number of alerts they’ll bother you with. They also snitch on other programs, via System Insight, a feature that monitors running applications and identifies ones which may be bogging you down.
Norton uses community-based reputation–judging files in part by whether other Norton users have downloaded them without problems. Other new features include protection against dangerous downloads that works in a comprehensive range of browsers, IM clients, and e-mail programs; and the ability to manage other browser-based Norton services from within the Norton dashboard. And the Norton Bootable Recovery Tool now lets you easily prepare a CD-ROM, DVD, or USB drive to undo damage to computers so crippled by an attack that they can’t even start up.
Norton 2011 is available in two versions. Plain-jane AntiVirus 2011 costs $39.99 for a version that covers up to three PCs for one year. Norton Internet Security, which adds a firewall, antispam, parental controls, identity protection, and other features, is $69.99 for up to three PCs.
Symantec is also touting several free security downloads it offers, including Power Eraser, which is designed to remove “scareware” that’s often maddeningly difficult to shake, such as malware which poses as real antivirus software.
Trend Micro, meanwhile, has given its security products a new name: Titanium. More important, it’s given them a new approach: Instead of making you download signatures to your PC to detect viruses and other dangers it’s put most of the detecting in the cloud and aimed to prevent dangerous files from ever reaching computers in the first place. The company says that this dramatically reduces required resources.
As with Norton 2011, the goal may be to be unremarkable, but there’s a lot of information and settings if you want them:
This cloud-based strategy, Trend says, is particularly effective against zero-day attacks–ones so new that security companies haven’t created and distributed fixes for them.
Trend’s basic package, Titanium Antivirus+, is $39.95 for one PC or $59.95 for three. Titanium Internet Security adds antispam, parental controls, and other features for $49.95 for one PC or $69.95 for three machines. And Titanium Maximum Security tops that off with 10GB of online backup, system optimization, a secure erase utility, and other features for $59.95 for one PC or $79.95 for three. Unlike Norton, Trend doesn’t include a firewall with any of its versions, choosing instead to integrate with the one built into Windows.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Ad-Aware Free Internet Security, one of the most popular spyware killers. It's not just an anti-spyware killer any more. The newest version adds anti-virus capabilities to its already very good job of detecting and killing spyware while keeping a low profile.
Ad-Aware Internet Security Free now includes anti-virus protection--but its heuristics protection runs on-demand only.
Version 8.3 protects against rootkits, stealth attacks designed to escape detection and burrow their way into the operating system--as did the previous version. Ad-Aware Free Internet Security also includes several types of heuristic detection, which offers you by examining complex system behavior, rather than just looking for known malware signatures. If the program's heuristics work as well as do the heuristics in other anti-malware software, it should provide better security against emerging unknown threats.
New to this version is Genotype heuristics detection system, which Lavasoft claims is superior to its previous heuristics. PCWorld has not yet lab-tested this software and cannot offer an opinion on the antivirus feature's efficacy.
Ad-Aware Free version 8.2 promises to protect you against malware that tries to restore itself after a system reboot. Also useful is a "Simple mode" that lets you set your configuration once, and never has to do it again. If you prefer, you can toggle to Advanced Mode, where you can select advanced features for customization. Ad-Aware Free Internet Security is as simple to use as previous versions. Tell it to scan your system, and it finds spyware and other malware, and then deletes it or quarantines it for you. New in this version is the ability to schedule scans.
Ad-Aware Free Internet Security doesn't provide real-time comprehensive protection, which means that to keep yourself safe, you'll have to regularly scan your system. It provides basic real-time protection, but that doesn't include Registry protection, or real-time behavior-based heuristic scanning. For full real-time protection you can get the $30 Ad-Aware Internet Security Pro or the new $50 Ad-Aware Total Security.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
According to data released by Admob in 2010, 65 percent of iPod touch users and 13 percent of iPhone users are below the age of 17. Furthermore, twice as many kids own an Internet-enabled mobile device versus a computer1.
Today McAfee also released results from its Secret Life of Teens survey which provides a detailed snapshot of online teen behavior. It reveals that 85 percent of teens go online somewhere other than at home and under the supervision of their parents, nearly a third (32 percent) of teens say they don’t tell their parents what they do while they are online, and 28 percent engage with strangers online.
McAfee® Family Protection iPhone, iPod touch and iPad Edition offers Web site and search filtering. The program will automatically block age-inappropriate sites, such as known pornography web sites. It also includes location tracking for Apple devices that are equipped with GPS. McAfee Family Protection iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad Edition is available for download now at the iTunes App Store and McAfee.com for $19.99.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Global IT security vendor Panda Security has announced the release of the new Beta of Panda Global Protection 2011, its most complete anti-malware solution for home users. Panda has also announced that the ten most productive beta-testers of this solution will receive a $200 (R 1533) Amazon coupon.
Panda Global Protection 2011 is specifically designed for highly active users with demanding protection needs, it includes a series of new features, such as the option to manage home networks or run the protection in gaming/multimedia mode to avoid interruptions for gamers. “It also offers users greater protection and minimal resource consumption as it uses the latest protection technologies on the market".
The new solution maintains the features that have made it a market-leading security suite. These include a powerful antivirus engine to protect against all types of known and unknown viruses, firewall with WiFi security to block intruders and hackers, Panda USB Vaccine to protect USB devices, confidential information filters to keep personal data safe, backup copying and system recovery, as well as a PC tune-up feature to optimize system performance.
The lineup also features new intelligent updates, web filtering for even safer internet browsing, home network management, gaming/multimedia mode, remote PC access, virtual keyboard and a sandbox virtual browser. The anti-spam filter, protection against spyware, phishing, rootkits and banker Trojans, parental control and 2 GB online backup have also all been improved.
Panda Global Protection 2011 delivers real-time protection against new or unknown threats, and leverages the knowledge from the global community of millions of Panda users and Collective Intelligence technologies.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Iexplore.exe is the Microsoft Web Explorer file. Basically, iexplore.exe is used to access the Internet when users enter an URL in the handle bar. The location is displayed on the consumer’s screen when the appropriate page is found.
You might come across the next error message when utilizing the Internet Explorer software:
“Iexplore.exe has encountered an issue and must close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.”
Cause of the Error:
This error usually generates when you have one of many following Browser Assist Objects (BHO) added to your Web Explorer:
1. BuyersPort
2. Morpheus
3. Morpheus Buying Club
4. WURLD Shopping Group
You usually experience this error when you’re logged on to the PC with a unauthorized user account. BHOs attempt to entry system files and Windows registry entries and modify them. Since a restricted user account has restricted rights, the BHO is unable to make these changes. This causes your Internet Explorer to crash and produce the error message.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Antivirus firewall software are two different method to secure your laptop against being compromised. A firewall blocks access to your machine, while an antivirus scans your machine for signs of a virulent disease and deletes them. A third quite product is an anti-spyware that is specifically targeted to stop unwanted ads and examine your laptop activity. Antivirus firewall software is incorporated during a comprehensive security suite. An epidemic can arrive gain access to your computer either by exploiting a flaw on your system or by being activated by the user by imagine to be one thing else.
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It\’s important to possess antivirus firewall software otherwise you pc may be taken over. Once your laptop is compromised during this method then the intruder has the flexibility to strive and do anything they wish along together with your machine, this includes reading all your emails, making you see popup adverts constantly, identifying your passwords, reading all your documents, sending out spam email from your machine doubtless infecting your friends computers, copying illegal files to your machine etc.
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