May 4th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua AV-Test released the first quarter report for this year that is dedicated to evaluate 22 security products, the test has been performed on Windows 7 32-bit platform and looks for protection against 0-day malware attacks, the capacity of these software to block new malware using the dynamic detection and checking whether the security product able [...]
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Tags: Anti-Malwares, Anti-virus, AVG, BitDefender, F-Secure, G Data, Kaspersky, panda, Security Software, Symantec 
13 Comments » February 15th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua GlobalSCAPE announced a new security application called appShield, a product for securing home users and SMB’s. AppShield is based on proven technology from CoreTrace Corporation, which creates a whitelist. That’s mean not as other security applications that use the blackist to block any suspicios applications. The whitelist includes all approved applications that user will allow [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, Software Security, Tools Tags: Anti-Malwares, Software Security 8 Comments » February 12th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Online sandboxes are very useful services that any person should consider from time to time to have an idea about any unknown file or website. Now it is possible without installing any system to check what this file do on your operating system and what change it brings. These services will execute malware in a [...]
Posted in Anti-Viruses, Malwares, Software Security Tags: Anti-Malwares, CWSandbox, Joebox, Malware, Malware Research, Team Cymru, ThreatExpert, WinMHR 23 Comments » May 19th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua McAfee has issued the regular quarterly Threat report, which pointed to major network threats in the first quarter of this year, during this period the biggest threat to computers was USB malicious software. Attackers continue to enjoy the ability to launch applications automatically from external devices. The report also stated the increasing of fake AV [...]
