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F-Secure: Innovating to Protect the Irreplaceable in 2010
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in Anti-Viruses on February 4, 2010
In addition to an array of threats F-Secure’s Labs predict that there will be more attacks on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Linkedln, etc. The 350 million people on Facebook, for instance, obviously represent a concentration of people, data and trust far too tempting for cyber-criminals to ignore. And these networks invite users to blur the lines between business and pleasure, creating new risks for PCs both at work and at home.
Meanwhile, hackers are looking to exploit new technologies—such as real-time and location-based search—and scammers are figuring out even craftier ways to exploit the information we reveal in our Tweets, updates and profiles.
F-Secure is dedicated to creating products that protect your irreplaceable data, content and time, so you don’t have to worry about all of these endlessly evolving threats on the web.
We want to thank Mourad for this chance to lay out some of the security solutions we’re offering for 2010.
F-Secure Internet Security 2010 includes comprehensive anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall along with several breakthrough technologies. DeepGuard 2.0 uses “in-the-cloud” computing to provide instant protection against new threats. Browsing Protection reveals dangerous and corrupted sites while Exploit Shield blocks suspected malicious activity. The Exploit Shield technology in Internet Security 2010 would have helped Google block the recent Aurora attacks . Internet Security is available for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.
Anti-Virus 2010 is based on same technologies as F-Secure Internet Security. It offers enhanced protection against viruses, spyware, infected e-mail attachments, and other malware. F-Secure Anti-Virus is also available on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.
Data that exists inside only one internet-connected PC is always at risk—especially as new threats threats like ransomware emerge. F-Secure Online Backup creates unlimited online copies of the important files on your computer. F-Secure Online Backup gives you safe and easy access to your backed-up pictures, documents and other digital content anywhere over the Internet. It’s available Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Mac OS X operating systems.
In addition to our premium personal and business tools, F-Secure will update many of the free technologies we’ve created to protect users and minimize the spread of threats.
Health Check is a free browser-based solution that can be used to check that your computer has up-to-date internet security product and that your applications doesn’t contain any known vulnerabilities. It will also assist the customer to solve any problems it might find. F-Secure Health Check works on Windows XP and Vista machines with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6/7 or Mozilla Firefox 3.0.
Online Scanner is a free browser based solution that can be used to scan your computer for malware. Online Scanner works on Windows XP and Vista machines with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6/7 or Mozilla Firefox 3.0.
The links posted on social networks create the greatest threat to users’ safety. Our newest free tool, Browsing Protection is a way to check if a website is dangerous so you can protect your identity as you visit new sites. It’s available though any web-connected browser.
In just a few years, more people will access the web from mobile devices than from conventional PCs. F-Secure is dedicated to securing smartphones as they become more connected, smarter and contain crucial more business and financial data.
Our newest mobile product protects against the most immediate threat to your phone—theft or loss. With Anti-Theft for Mobile, you can remotely lock the phone and protect the information it contains with a single SMS message. Even if a thief changes the SIM card, the Theft Control feature locks the phone and informs you of the new number. As an ultimate safety measure, you can erase all the data on the phone with Remote Wipe.
Mobile Security includes anti-virus, anti-spyware, a firewall along with anti-theft. It operates seamlessly with automatic updates keep the phone constantly protected. F-Secure released its first mobile security product ten years ago this February.
For information about our business solutions, please check out our site. We also invite you to follow our regular updates @FSecure on Twitter and Facebook.
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Panda Cloud Protection Secure Endpoints and Emails
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in Anti-Viruses, News on November 11, 2009
Panda Security software company has released a new solution aims to protect email and computers from Today’s major threats including spyware, rootkits and viruses.
Panda Cloud system has been firstly introduced as a beta version in the beginning of April. It was the first AV solution that are based on the concept of software as a service to address many key issues in the small and medium businesses like eliminating the traditional costs and time associated with the antivirus implementation (Hardware and software) and no additional money for maintaining the AV solution.
The Cloud Antivirus works by classifying threats into executables that must be scanned immediately, and non-executables that are checked at a lower priority usually when the machine is idle this help in treating a great amount of data without consuming the memory resources during the work.
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Microsoft Security Essentials First Week
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in Anti-Viruses, News, Tools on October 20, 2009
Microsoft security Essential the new antivirus solution has been downloaded during the first week by 1.5 million users.
The Free Antivirus has been able to detect 4 million malicious software during the period of 29 September to 6 October on 535,752 PC. Majority of these infected computers are running Windows XP while we find less infection on Windows Vista and Windows7.
According to Microsoft AV computers reporting the most common Infections at the United states were Trojans, while in China computers are more infected by several Malicious application including Adware, spyware and in Brazil the main Malware are worms especially Conficker.
Here you can find Microsoft presentation that lists the malware statistics but at AV-Test.org which is an independent organization has listed Microsoft Security Essentials in better position among other free antiviruses including AVG and Avast in terms of scanning speed and level of threat detection .on the other hand the AV still require improvement on the Malware behavioral analysis.
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Microsoft AV will be out soon!
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in Anti-Viruses, News on September 23, 2009
Microsoft has released an announcement that the free anti-virus package Security Essentials is now reached the final phase.
Microsoft Security Essentials will have the basic requirements for competition among some major security software companies like Symantec and McAfee with a low price AV solution. The new product is designed to protect computers with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating system from viruses, Trojans, spyware, rootkits, etc.
Security Essentials Beta Testing version has been issued last summer: the package was downloaded by 75 thousand users from all over the globe. Reviewer’s opinion generally was positive. In particular, there has been user-friendly interface and a fairly wide range of settings.
As described in the announcement Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) final version will be presented in the coming few weeks. It sounds like the package will be released on the Windows 7 presentation , which will be held on October 22.
Minimum requirements to run the Security Essentials are: 500 MHz CPU and 256 MB RAM with Windows XP and processor at 1 GHz and 1 GB of RAM for Windows Vista or Windows 7.
This appears very attractive especially that Microsoft is trying to integrate all the protective measures in the whole infrastructure but what about non windows platform.
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