Posts Tagged Anti-virus
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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AVG prepares an Anti-Virus for Mac OS and iPhone
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in News, Software Security on August 11, 2009
The day when Apple was secured is gone .The increasing popularity of Apple not only attracts fans but also Hackers.After the recent reports of existing vulnerability in iPhones SMS and the keyboard MAC hacking method many security companies are working these days to provide a new ways to protects Apple users.
AVG the security software company announced on the CNET UK that they are preparing a new fully functional antivirus for OS X, and by the end of 2010 they will produce a real-time scanner for iPhone, however the increasing iPhone application development created a problem that the current smartphone does not allow applications to run on the background. So it is currently impossible for these embedded systems to scan in real time.
Well AVG is providing already a free product AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition and it is good to find AV companies focusing on the Mac community and games consoles.
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Anti-Malware Testing Standard In‐The‐Cloud Security Products
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in Best Practices on May 24, 2009
The AMTSO has released a new best practices related to testing the cloud products. This pdf document covers several topics such as virtualization, connection filtering and the repeatability of the tests and an example Methodology for testing in‐the‐Cloud Solutions.Among the participants of this release some anti-virus companies like Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro.
By lunching cloud technology and the growing number of cloud security products it is always necessary to evaluate and test each product available on the market today so consumers will be aware with the security level and can avoid any risk or damage acquire.
I think that this step is in the good way to define a procedure or standard on how to test cloud-based products.
You can find all published documents related to AMTSO here and I hope that you will find them useful.
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US researchers develop cloud computing virus protection
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in Cloud Computing Security on January 17, 2009
Most PC owners nowadays know that it is not a good idea to connect a Windows computer to the Internet before you have installed current anti-virus software. But not even the best anti-virus program can catch every virus, and complete scans of an entire system take a lot of processor power and can bring already-sluggish computers to a halt.
Now, researchers at the University of Michigan say they have found a better way of protecting computers from contaminants. They have moved protection software from your local PC into the “data cloud” of the Internet, where the power of numerous servers can be clustered. This approach allows far more viruses to be detected than with stand-alone protection programs. In addition, overall performance was improved. Called Cloud AV, on average, the distributed software developed by the researchers trapped a total of 98 per cent of all the contaminants sent through the test, whereas desktop software only caught 83 per cent.
“We were worried because the detection rates of most popular anti-virus software frankly cover too small a range”, explains Farnam Jahanian, computer science professor at the University of Michigan. His idea was simple: if you could use anti-virus programs from different providers at the same time on a single PC, you would have greater security. The problem was that few PCs are powerful enough to do that. “But if we put the anti-virus function into the network, we can have multiple programs running at the same time.”
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