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Friday, October 15, 2010

Anti-Virus

McAfee Total Protection 2010


McAfee has gone and done something drastic for the 2010 version of its basic security program, and we're not talking about the new name. McAfee AntiVirus Plus, which last year was known as McAfee VirusScan Plus, has a new interface that redefines how to streamline the complex and varied tools currently available in A-list security programs.

The the new and unusual top-down design is surprisingly easy to use, with clear delineations between features. Potentially confusing names have been jettisoned. For example, firewall settings control how you access the Web, so they're listed under Web and E-mail Protection. Also, McAfee stands out for not only color-coding what your status is, but also adding in what that means. The "Your computer is secure" message is bolstered by "No action required," a helpful tip. Click on any of the four categories just below the status bar and the pane just to the right reveals links to drill deeper into your security status. Mouse over the big subcategories at the bottom and a general status message appears next to the name. Click on one to for more configuration settings.

The biggest feature update comes to McAfee's real-time defense engine, called Artemis. In the 2010 version, it works in conjunction with McAfee's SiteAdvisor to scan downloads as they occur. The scans include using real-time URL, IP address, and domain name data in conjunction with a blend of blacklists, whitelists, and cloud analysis to evaluate downloads for threats before they land on your hard drive. According to McAfee, its 2010 suite has huge leaps in performance, due in part to selective process loading when you boot, and in part to flagging already-examined files as safe. Overall, we found McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2010 to be a much-needed and long-overdue improvement to McAfee's consumer protection line. Download












Norton Internet Security 2010



The Norton Internet Security 2010 interface is nicely laid out, but its peculiar use of colour (a black main window with orange accents) makes it tough to read. The left panel displays a CPU performance gauge, which may or may not be useful to you. The middle column has three sections: Computer (for desktopoperations), Network (for connections to the Internet or other PCs), and web (for browser protection settings).

The right column shows configuration options for each of the three subsections. The problem is that the notifications, in green and red text, were sometimes hard to see against the black background. Norton was one of the top performers in detecting and cleaning up active malware infections on a PC. It found all the bad software, disabled 93 percent of it and removed all traces of two-thirds of the software - the best scores of any product we tested.

Norton Internet Security 2010 detected 93 percent of inactive rootkits, but detected and removed all active rootkits. This is a very solid score for this test, but rivals McAfee and Kaspersky both achieved perfect scores across the board here.

On the other hand, Norton Internet Security 2010 was the only suite we tested that achieved a perfect score in detecting, disabling, and removing malware using behavioral scanning (detecting new and unknown malware based solely on how it acts on a PC). This is a good test for judging how well a product can detect and disable brand new, unknown malware.

Norton Internet Security 2010 did well in our tests for old-style signature-based malware detection, finding 98.4 percent of samples. By comparison, however, McAfee Internet Security, the top performer on this test, detected 99.9 percent of samples. Signature-based detection is useful for detecting older malware, but it's less important than it once was given the huge number of new malware outbreaks.

Despite improvements over the years in performance, Norton Internet Security 2010 did slow our test PC at boot, taking 3.9 seconds longer than the average startup time. But we experienced minimal drag in day-to-day desktop operations. Norton's scan speeds were decent, but not outstanding; it took 4 minutes, 14 seconds to scan 4.5GB of data in our on-access scanner test that judges how quickly the scanners work when you're opening or saving a file.

One annoyance with Norton Internet Security 2010 is its use of proprietary names like Quorum, Sonar, Insight for security technologies that it doesn't explain very well. For example, on the Symantec knowledge base search page we received this message: "Our search engine was unable to find any pages related to quorum." For the record: Quorum is Symantec's cloud-based detection engine that assigns a reputation to programs based on several factors; Sonar is Symantec's behavioral-detection technology; and Insight provides up-to-the-minute data on malware collected from other Symantec users. Download .01
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Avast Antivirus

Avast Antivirus Mac Edition has the same ICSA Certified scan engine as all Avast antivirus products, offering protection against the latest and legacy virus, malware, Trojan horse, and spyware risks. Virus definitions and scanning capabilities are updated often (sometime several times per day, depending on current threats), so you can rest assured that your Mac is protected at all times. All you need to do is install, configure once (if you want to change the default settings) and forget about malware being a problem. Some key features of Avast Antivirus Mac Edition includes: full on-access scanning--which scans files as you access them, to make sure they are safe from infection; on-demand scanning--for scheduled or ad-hoc scans of your system volumes; mail protection-integrated mail protection can stop infection at one of the most vulnerable access vectors; Virus Chest--a safe storage place for infected or suspected files, where they cannot harm your system; fully automatic updating of the program and virus definitions; and full scanner preference control.Under-the-hood technology features include: native execution of virus database on Intel platform Macs, with fast emulation on PowerPC of assembler-level parts; multi-threaded scanning daemon; industry leading unpacker support (for archives); able to upgrade the definitions database, even while doing background scanning; application itself multi-threaded; fail-safe updating architecture (if the daemon fails to do an update, the main application will do it instead); kernel extension architecture for capturing after-close events on modified files; optimized software architecture, including non-blocking system calls; and the program is designed for speed and non-degraded system performance.

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ESET NOD32


Protea AntiVirus Tools for Lotus Notes/Domino scans and cleans automatically the message body, attached files, rich text fields and OLE objects in Domino mail, keeps Domino bases virus-free. Virus detection is handled by CA eTrustT, ESET NOD32 and Norman Virus Control and others antivirus scanners. Scanning occurs in real-time, cleaning e-mail traffic of Lotus Domino without slowing down the mail delivery. All infected objects are blocked, regardless of format, archive or compression type. On-demand scanning ensures that databases are virus-free on setup. Fully configurable, scheduled database scanning offers an additional level of protection. The scanner checks the database in the catalogs specified by the Administrator. It provides automatic virus signature file updates, centralized virus activity logs, and integration with the Lotus Notes administration client. Download













Patition Magic Norton


Key Technologies

* Partitions hard drive
* Create, resize, copy partitions
* Run multiple operating systems

Features

* Divides hard drive into two or more partitions
* Runs multiple operating systems on the same PC
* BootMagic™ makes it easy to switch between operating systems
* Copy, move, resize, split, or merge partitions
* Guides you through the partitioning process
* Easy to find, copy and paste files in both Windows® and Linux® partitions
* Create and modify partitions up to 300GB*
* Supports USB 2.0, USB 1.1, and FireWire® external drives**
* Supports and converts partitions among FAT, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2, and Ext3 file systems
* Enlarge an NTFS partition without restarting computer
* Resizes NTFS system clusters to the most effective size


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