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New Antivirus Shootouts – Avira AntiVir Is the Lightest; Norton & Kaspersky Most Effective

By Pallab De on December 23, 2009

How much of a resource hog is our favourite antivirus? How well does it perform in real-world conditions? Does it have a good enough detection rate? Find out.

Posted in Featured Post, Security | Tagged antivirus, avira, g data, kaspersky, malware, microsoft, norton, review, Security, softwrae | 12 Responses

How Effective Is Your Antivirus Software? [2009 Edition]

By Pallab De on November 8, 2009

Modern antiviruses are expected to do much more than simply detecting threats. A good antivirus should also be able to clean all malwares present in a system and undo the harmful changes caused by the malware. Find out how effective your antivirus software really is in cleaning virus infections.

Posted in Security | Tagged antivirus, avira, kaspersky, malware, norton, Security | 5 Responses

Best Antivirus – Top Free and Paid Antivirus Software [Oct 09]

By Pallab De on September 29, 2009

Find out which is the best antivirus software – both free and paid, based upon detection rates.

Posted in Featured Post, Security | Tagged antivirus, avira, free antivirus, kaspersky, malware, norton, Security | 12 Responses

Analysing The Performance Impact of Internet Security Suites

By Pallab De on July 16, 2009

Internet Security Suites are notorious for slowing down systems. Find out which internet security suites are the biggest culprits and learn which internet security suite is the fastest and the lightest.

Posted in Featured Post, Security | Tagged antivirus, internet security, malware, Security | 5 Responses

Dasient Web Antimalware Prevents Websites From Getting Blacklisted

By Pallab De on June 30, 2009

More and more cyber-criminals are using websites as a vehicle to deliver trojan horses and other malwares. Often they insert malicious codes into innocent websites run by unsuspecting webmasters. Detecting a malware infection is relatively easy (as long as you have a top class antivirus) if all the pages of a website [...]

Posted in Security, The Web | Tagged antimalware, dasient, malware, Security, The Web | 2 Responses

Microsoft’s Free Antivirus Software Leaked – It’s Called Microsoft Security Essentials

By Pallab De on June 18, 2009

The secret new free antivirus software from Microsoft, that a lot of people have been waiting for has been leaked. Until now it was known only by its codename Morro. However, it seems that Microsoft has settled on Microsoft Security Essentials as the final name of the product.

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is currently in [...]

Posted in Security | Tagged malware, microsoft, microsoft security essentials, Security, Software, windows | Leave a response

Seven Premium Antivirus Software for Free

By Pallab De on June 9, 2009

On previous occasions, I brought to you Six Premium Antivirus Software for Free, but this time I shall do one better. Read on to learn how to obtain extended trial license keys for popular antivirus products including Kaspersky, Norton, Mcafee and Avira. If you aren’t sure about the antivirus product is best for you [...]

Posted in Security | Tagged antiviru, avira, free antivirus, kaspersky, malware, mcaffee, norton, Security | 2 Responses

Vaccinate Your USB Drive Against Malware

By Pallab De on April 6, 2009

Besides the internet, one of the most common methods of propagation of malware are USB Devices (removable storage). Almost all such malwares work in a similar way. They copy themselves onto the USB device and automatically execute themselves when inserted in another computer. In order to achieve this they make use of the autorun.inf file.
USB [...]

Posted in Security, Software | Tagged malware, Security, Software, virus | 4 Responses

Antivirus Shootout – Feb 09

By Pallab De on March 27, 2009

It’s been quite some time since I took a look at how popular antivirus softwares are doing. Earlier this week Av-comparatives.org released the results of their on-demand comparatives. More than a dozen antivirus softwares were tested using about more than 1.2 million malware samples. Most of the traditional performers maintained their good showing, but [...]

Posted in Security | Tagged antivirus, malware, Security | 4 Responses

malware

New Antivirus Shootouts – Avira AntiVir Is the Lightest; Norton & Kaspersky Most Effective

How Effective Is Your Antivirus Software? [2009 Edition]

Best Antivirus – Top Free and Paid Antivirus Software [Oct 09]

Analysing The Performance Impact of Internet Security Suites

Dasient Web Antimalware Prevents Websites From Getting Blacklisted

Microsoft’s Free Antivirus Software Leaked – It’s Called Microsoft Security Essentials

Seven Premium Antivirus Software for Free

Vaccinate Your USB Drive Against Malware

Antivirus Shootout – Feb 09

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