From McAfee: A new Stinger has been developed to specifically target “FakeAlert” threats being seen in the wild. This version of Stinger Detects and removes the following “FakeAlert” Variants – Kryptik, AVP Security, Fakespypro, Winwebsec, Antivirus Soft and XPSpy.
Looking for some virus protection for your Ubuntu install? Linux viruses are rare, but they do exist. If you want a really great virus scanner for Ubuntu, look no further than ClamAV. Read on to learn how to install and configure it.
If you want to get rid of Spyware, you want SUPERAntiSpyware Portable. It’s what the folks at How-To Geek use, and you should seriously put this into your toolkit. You can read the full review and screenshot tour over at How-To Geek, or just download it from the link below.
Trend Micro might not have as much history as Kaspersky or Symantec do on the security solutions niche, but they do have a respectable product. Trend Micro Internet Security 2010 brings a lot of improvements vs the 2009 edition and it manages to be also very user friendly. Is this enough for it to become one of the top security solutions? Find out from this complete review.
Security for Everyone – Reviewing Trend Micro Internet Security 2010
F-Secure has brought quite a lot of improvements to their Internet Security suite, which, in previous incarnations was not as good as their competition. Those of you interested in purchasing a good solution, might want to take a look at their latest offering – F-Secure Internet Security 2010. And before you buy it, it’s good to read a complete review and know what to expect. The review we propose looks at their firewall, antivirus and antispyware modules, checks its performance and tries to give you a perspective also on how usable this solution is.
Security for Everyone – Reviewing F-Secure Internet Security 2010
Online virus scanner VirusTotal updated to a new version recently – and now it checks to see whether the files have already been uploaded, and only checks the file hash. Awesome!
A few weeks ago we announced the launch of AVG Free Version 9. Now we also found a good review of their commercial version, called AVG Internet Security 9. If you read it, you’ll see that the folks from AVG worked hard on this new version and managed to improve many things. If you are interested in upgrading from their free version, to the commercial one, don’t hesitate to check out this review. You can also try it out yourself, by downloading a 30-days free support version.
Avira is famous for it’s free antivirus which is a pretty good solution in its niche. Unfortunately not much is written about the payed alternative, called Avira Premium Security, which is now at version 9. The team from 7 Tutorials took it for a through spin and recently published a complete review about it. If you want to know if Avira Premium Security 9 is worth your money, then don’t hesitate to read this review.
We like to alert our readers to any new version of Stinger, a standalone virus remover from McAfee. New versions are available approximately twice a year, this one is v10.0.1.688.
One of the very few security solutions which won the “Buy for Grandma!” award in the series of security reviews ran by 7 Tutorials, is ESET Smart Security 4. This might not come as a surprise, considering the great results ESET had in recent years with their NOD32 technology. If you want to know more about ESET Smart Security 4, the latest technologies it includes and how it performs, do check out this useful review.
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