Microsoft's OneCare improves antivirus test ranking
But top-dog NOD32 detects nearly 5 times more new threats than 14th-place OneCare..
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6.6.2007 OneCare places 16th in antivirus test, 13th in spyware
Virus Bulletin this month released the results of a major comparative of the latest security products, covering a range of metrics.
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6.9.2008 Rising Antivirus Free Edition 2009 v21.22.30
Rising Antivirus Free Edition protects your computers against all types of viruses, Trojans, worms, rootkits and other malicious programs.
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4.2.2009 The Best Antivirus in 2008
A new year... A new beginning... And the inevitable security solution smackdown. In this context, AV-Test has thrown together in the same arena no less than 24 antivirus products from the heavyweights of the security market.
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29.1.2008 XP Antivirus Still Available!
A new rogue antispyware application was spotted a few days ago on the web and it may really trick you in case you’re not ready for it. Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT download it!
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27.3.2008 Gmail antivirus official
How does anti-virus scanning work?
Each time you send and receive attachments, Gmail automatically scans them for viruses.
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4.12.2005 Vista: Antispyware, Yes. Antivirus, No
Why are Microsoft watchers surprised that Microsoft has no plans to integrate antivirus software into Windows? Redmond sees bigger dollar signs in antivirus services.
Microsoft officials have been saying for quite some time that Windows Vista will ship with antispyware software built into the operating system. But for more than a year, Microsoft's top dogs have been quite clear that Microsoft has no intentions to bundle antivirus software into the product.
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31.1.2006 Allchin Suggests Vista Won't Need Antivirus
During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows Vista, which was released to manufacturing yesterday, told a reporter that the system's new lockdown features are so capable and thorough that he was comfortable with his own seven-year-old son using Vista without antivirus software installed.
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10.11.2006 Kaspersky – The Best Antivirus for Windows Vista
Windows Vista represents the latest operating system released by the software giant Microsoft that was meant to revolutionize the work on our systems and other computer activities.
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12.2.2007 ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.91.2
ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP and 2003. ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge.
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23.8.2007 The Best Windows Antivirus – 2008 Editions
The search for the best antivirus of 2008 has advanced one step further, courtesy of security solution testing lab AV-Test.org. All the best available 2008 security suite editions were thrown against in excess of 1.1 million samples of malicious code on an arena of Windows XP SP2.
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13.3.2008 New AntiVirus from Microsoft - Morro revealed
Ever since Microsoft discontinued its "OneCare" Anti-Virus suite, gossip has been flying that Microsoft would be releasing a free Anti-VirusAnti-Spyware tool codenamed "Morro".
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16.6.2009 Best Free Antivirus and Antispyware for Windows 7
Now that Windows 7 has been released for all the consumers worldwide, I thought this was the right time to list down our top recommended antivirus plus antispyware solutions which are compatible with this latest version of Windows.
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1.11.2009 Microsoft's antivirus package makes a splash
Helped by low pricing, Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare landed the No. 2 spot in sales at American stores in its debut month, according to The NPD Group.
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13.8.2006 Microsoft's antivirus deletes users' e-mails
Microsoft has admitted that its Live OneCare security suite has been accidentally deleting some users' Outlook and Outlook Express e-mails.
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12.3.2007 Microsoft's antivirus deletes users' e-mails
Microsoft has admitted that its Live OneCare security suite has been accidentally deleting some users' Outlook and Outlook Express e-mails.
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12.3.2007 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0.414 RC1
ESET NOD32 Antivirus offers superior, comprehensive protection, the fastest scanning throughput, and the least performance impact of any solution.
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21.9.2007 Antivirus protection worse than a year ago
The effectiveness of antivirus software has fallen off, and more and more pests can now slip past these barriers. This is the sobering conclusion the german computer magazine c't comes to in issue 1/08 with a test on 17 antivirus solutions.
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23.12.2007 Download Norton AntiVirus 2010 Beta
Symantec has recently released its latest Norton AntiVirus 2010 beta which claimed to be the faster and providing most proactive protection against viruses, Trojans and worms that they have ever offered.
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14.7.2009 Microsoft's OneCare antivirus software to go live Thursday
OneCare includes software for antivirus, PC tuning, and backup
Microsoft Corp. will complete its entry into the desktop security market next week with the general release of its Windows Live OneCare antivirus software.
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29.5.2006 Microsoft concedes: OneCare antivirus software 'not stellar'
Microsoft Corporation yesterday acknowledged poor test results of its OneCare antivirus software, but promised it would do better by paying more attention to malware actually in the wild. Earlier this month, AV Comparatives, a non-profit site that tests the most popular antivirus products, found OneCare detected 82.4% of nearly half a million pieces of malware.
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18.3.2007 Microsoft Preps Business Antivirus, Antispyware Product
Long-awaited Forefront Client Security software is ready for launch next month, says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
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25.4.2007 Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.1.0.331
AntiVir Personal Edition is a software that helps you protect and monitor your PC.
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8.10.2008 Download Windows 7 Antivirus from AVG, Kaspersky and Symantec
Just as it was the case with Windows Vista, the mitigations introduced by Microsoft alone in Windows 7 are not sufficient to bulletproof the operating system on their own.
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15.1.2009 Rising AntiVirus 2008 Free Edition English Download
Rising AntiVirus is a anti-virus security software from a Beijing, China based company of the same name, and is one of the most popular anti-virus solutions in China. Since April 2008, Rising has giving away.
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7.7.2008 Microsoft announces free antivirus, limited public beta
Microsoft has officially announced its new Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus app and plans to put it into a limited beta next week, on June 23.
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19.6.2009 OneCare Death to Make Room for Free Morro Antivirus for Windows 7
A future core antimalware solution will replace Windows Live OneCare, which, considering the price of a one year subscription, has already qualified for an alternative to free security software, come mid-2009.
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25.11.2008 Vista SP1 with Antivirus Installed on Multiple CPU Systems Eats All Resources
Microsoft has warned customers of a problem affecting both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1, where the two operating systems in combination with some antivirus software, and running on machines with multiple processors, can eat all the system resources available to them.
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10.8.2009 Windows Onecare Now Available for Anyone to BETA Test
So what's Windows OneCare?
It's the new antivirus, firewall and and backup solution being provided by Bill.
The BETA version is now available to everyone that speaks english
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16.12.2005 XP Minimal-Requirement-Test
The target of this project was to find the weakest system where you can run Windows XP.
Keep in mind, that Microsoft official requirements are a CPU with 233 MHz an 64 MB of RAM.
But that had to be beaten!
First try: Socket 5, Pentium 100 MHz and 64 MB RAM
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29.1.2006Security analysts closer to improved antivirus software test
Antivirus vendors are closer to agreeing on a new way to test their software after widespread agreement that older antivirus tests can be
misleading.
AV-Test.org, a German antivirus testing organization, is
meshing suggestions from vendors such as Symantec, Panda Software, and Trend Micro as well as its own for a new testing regime, said Maik Morgenstern,
who conducts product tests at AV-Test.org.
The new testing proposal -- also supported by vendors Kaspersky Lab and F-Secure, as
well as other testers such as Virus Bulletin -- will be presented next month at the Association of AntiVirus Asia Researchers 2007 conference in
Seoul.
Companies supporting AV-Test.org's paper will try to marshal support from other security vendors, said Mark Kennedy, an
antivirus engineer with Symantec.
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05.10.2007Neowin Review: Symantec Norton Internet Security 2009
Back when I got my first PC, there wasn't a need for Antivirus software, malware wasn't heard of, and Spam came in a can, and could arguably
be called a tasty treat. Now, you just about can't run a PC without some sort of Antivirus/spyware protection, especially if you're connected
to the internet (something we'd only be able to use if we were students at the local college). Back in late 1990, Symantec released their first
Antivirus software, called Norton Antivirus (from the original company name, and founder, Peter Norton). At the time, it was considered one of, if
not THE best AV software out there.
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05.02.2009Microsoft's OneCare improves antivirus test ranking
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
Live OneCare climbed from
March's dead last to 14th
place in a test of 17
antivirus programs, an
Austrian security researcher
reported today.
Andreas Cleminti's AV
Comparatives latest test
pitted the top antivirus
software against the
20,000-some threats that
debuted during the last three
months to measure how well
each could finger unknown
exploits. Cleminti stopped
updating each product's virus
database, or "signature,"
Feb. 2, but continued to probe
their defenses with every
newly discovered virus,
malicious script, worm,
Trojan, or backdoor until May
2.
"Even if most
antivirus products provide
daily or hourly
updates, without
heuristic/generic methods there is always a
time frame where the user is
not protected," Cleminti said
in the report issued today.
winbeta.org - 02.06.2007
Symantec releases antivirus just for gamers, but why?
Symantec today released Norton AntiVirus 2009 Gaming Edition, an antivirus utility designed specifically
not to bother gamers while they, err, game. The "Gamer Mode" suspends updates, alerts, and other background activities when you’re in
the middle of a game. It is automatically enabled when the system is in full screen mode (and can also be manually enabled). Resource-intensive
actions such as a system scan only occur when the computer is idle. Furthermore, Symantec claims that the software is a performance-driven release,
but then again, the normal NAV2009 is as well (as we've seen in a recent performance test).
Rowan Trollope, senior vice president of consumer products at Symantec gave the following explanation for the product release...
winbeta.org - 25.11.2008
Beta Test Sunbelt Messaging
Ninja
Sunbelt Software is seeking
beta testers for a new
antispam and antivirus
solution that integrates with
Microsoft Exchange. Called
Sunbelt Messaging Ninja, the
product uses a plug-in
architecture to offer
customized security polices,
and will initially include two
antivirus and antispam engines
as well as e-mail attachment
filtering...
betanews.com - 20.02.2006
Symantec opens Norton 2009 products in public beta
This week, Symantec opened the public betas of both Norton Internet Security 2009 and Norton Antivirus 2009, products which the company claims run
faster and consume fewer resources...
betanews.com - 17.07.2008
Microsoft Builds Own Antivirus
Engine
While customers may have to
wait until next year for the
Client Protection tool,
Microsoft on Thursday also
announced the availability of
Antigen, an antivirus program
for messaging and
collaboration servers that
will be bolstered by
Microsoft's own antivirus
scan engine...
betanews.com - 06.10.2005
OneCare places 16th in antivirus test, 13th in spyware.
Virus Bulletin this month released the results of a major comparative of the latest security products, covering a range of metrics. These include
detection rates over various types of malware, false positive rates, scanning speed, proactive detection, and response times to outbreaks.
Taking a look at the first one, detection rates, it's clear that a beta version of GDATA's AVK 2009 (which uses the Avast and BitDefender
scan engines) took first place for both malware (measured against 1,164,662 samples) as well as ad- and spyware (94,291 samples). Avira's Premium
Security Suite 2008 was second for malware, F-Secure 2009 was second in ad- and spyware, and Secure Computing's Webwasher gateway product came
third in both categories.
he most interesting data to emerge from this measurement (4 week span) was that the 2009 version of Norton topped
the table with an impressive 6,202 incremental micro-updates, issued several times per hour, while Kaspersky came a distant second with a mere 696.
Half of the 34 products tested had fewer than 100, including those from McAfee (21) and Trend Micro (30)
neowin.net - 06.09.2008
Vista’s UAC Catches Rootkits Before Installing
Looks like Vista’s much-maligned User Access Control or UAC has one benefit for a savvy user: it can detect rootkits before they install. AV-Test.org
conducted a test of popular antivirus programs to see how well they detected rootkits and the tester had to turn off UAC on the Vista test systems
because it detected every rootkit used in the test.
Once on a PC, rootkits can bury themselves quietly, but they have to get to that
point first. As long as users interpret prompts from the UAC system attentively, or those messages haven't in some way been spoofed, rootkits
struggle to jump to the PC without drawing attention to themselves.
HardOCP..
jcxp.net - 26.05.2008
AV Still Weak on Rootkit Detection, Fixing Infections
Independent antivirus testing organization AV-Test.org has released new test results on the
latest versions of 30 antivirus products, and the report cards weren't all good.
None of the AV products scored straight As, and
a few failed in some categories, such as remediation from malware infections and AV's old nemesis, rootkit detection.
New
malware just keeps on coming, according to the report. In January and February alone, AV-Test.org discovered a whopping 1.1 million samples of unique
malware spreading around the Net. The organization found nearly 5.5 million total during all of last year, up from 972,000 in 2006. (See Bake-off: Many AV Products Can't Detect Rootkits.)
winbeta.org - 13.03.2008
Apple Recommends Antivirus Software
Apple has issued a technical note about Mac antivirus software, and, for the first time, suggests that Macs need such software. The note says: "Apple
encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the
whole virus writing process more difficult." The note then goes on to mention three antivirus programs, with Intego VirusBarrier X5 listed first. It
is worth noting this, since Apple, especially in its recent "Get a Mac" ads, has always publicly tried to ignore the threat of malware to Macs, as
well as other security issues.
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neowin.net - 30.11.2008
Report finds fake antivirus on the rise
Malware posing as antivirus software is spreading fast with tens of millions of computers infected each month, according to a report to be released on
Wednesday from PandaLabs.
PandaLabs found 1,000 samples of fake antivirus software in the first quarter of 2008. In a year, that
number had grown to 111,000. And in the second quarter of 2009, it reached 374,000, Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs said in a recent
interview.
winbeta.org - 30.07.2009
AV-Test Deems Windows Security Essentials "Very Good"
Microsoft's new free security software, Windows Security Essentials, passed a preliminary antivirus exam with flying
colors, said independent and trusted firm AV-Test, which tested Essentials, launched yesterday in beta, on Windows XP,
Vista and Windows 7. It put it up against nearly 3,200 common viruses, bot Trojans and worms, said Andreas Marx, one of the firm's managers. The
malware was culled from the most recent WildList, a list of threats actually actively attacking computers. 'All files were properly detected and
treated by the product,' Marx said in an e-mail. 'That's good, as several other scanners are still not able to detect and kill all of
these critters yet.' It also tested well on false positives.
winbeta.org - 25.06.2009
Vista, Antivirus: What If Allchin's Right?
PERSPECTIVE Many were
quick to condemn a suggestion
by Jim Allchin last week that
an operating system could be
capable of evolving beyond the
need for antivirus software -
at least in specific
situations. But what if
Allchin's right?..
betanews.com - 14.11.2006
Invitation to final beta test of Ad-Aware 2009 edition
The makers of one of the Internet's first and most respected anti-adware products are on schedule to release their 2009 edition next month, though
they need some help from registered testers to make it happen...
betanews.com - 19.12.2008
Sophos: 'Don't rely on
antivirus software'
Security vendor Sophos
has warned companies not to
rely on antivirus software to
protect their IT
infrastructure and
systems.
S
peaking at the Information
Systems Security Association
conference in London on
Thursday, Vanjer Svajcer,
senior virus researcher for
Sophos, said companies should
also look to alternative
technologies and procedures to
ensure their IT assets are
secure.
Svajcer
said: "I always say, 'Do not
rely on antivirus software'.
In 99 per cent of cases you
cannot. The problem is we have
to see a virus before we can
detect it. If antivirus is in
place, it may not detect [a
virus] because it may be very
targeted for you."..
winbeta.org - 09.09.2005
Allchin Backs Off Antivirus Remarks
Outgoing Microsoft
co-president Jim Allchin
posted a blog entry Friday
apologizing for the confusion
surrounding comments he made
to reporters Wednesday about
being so confident in Windows
Vista's security that his
seven-year-old son's PC had
no antivirus software
installed...
betanews.com - 11.11.2006
Mozilla Labs rolls out usability 'Test Pilot' add-on
Mozilla has launched a usability test plug-in for its open-source
Firefox
browser, in a bid to make testing and user feedback easier and more attractive.
Test Pilot, an add-on for Firefox 3.5, was rolled
out on Wednesday. "We are looking for Firefox users of all levels of skill and all levels of technical knowledge to help improve Firefox and Labs
experiments," Mozilla Labs employee Jinghua Zhang wrote in a blog post.
winbeta.org - 15.08.2009
Critical Flaw Affects Symantec
AntiVirus
A flaw within Symantec
AntiVirus could open users'
computers to the execution of
arbitrary code when a
specially crafted RAR file is
scanned, independent security
researcher Alex Wheeler said
in an advisory on his Web site
Tuesday...
betanews.com - 21.12.2005
Test Updates for Windows 7 Beta Users
Brandon LeBlanc: Starting February 24, we will be releasing up to 5 test updates to PCs running the Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000) via Windows Update.
These updates allow us to test and verify our ability to deliver and manage the updating of Windows 7. We typically verify servicing scenarios during
a beta...
winbeta.org - 20.02.2009
