GFI WebMonitor™ is available in three editions:

• WebFilter Edition: Includes URL filtering and website categorization
• WebSecurity Edition: Includes antivirus and anti-phishing protection and spyware detection
• UnifiedProtection Edition: Combines both WebFilter and WebSecurity editions

When you install the software you can choose between two modes depend on which kind of network infrastructure that the company have:

1- Simple Proxy mode

this mode is for HTTP traffic filtering with SERVER that have one network card and its connected to the network (you must set GFI WebMonitor SERVER as a default proxy for the clients to able the HTTP filtration).

2- Gateway mode

in this mode the GFI WebMonitor SERVER will be between the network and the default router so all HTTP traffic will be filtered and GFI WebMonitor SERVER will be the default gateway for the network .

When you finish the installation and the configuration you can run GFI WebMonitor then you can see how easy to use the interface.

Here is a review for most of  GFI WebMonitor menu:

Dashboard

Here is the dashboard that shows the network traffic activities.

Monitoring

1- Active Connections : when you choose Active Connections you can see all active connection that clients are doing even you can terminating the download over HTTP.

2- Past Connections : Here you can see the latest activities from the clients.

Bandwith Consumption

1- Top Sites : You can see top sites according to bandwidth used.

2- Top Users : You can see top users according to bandwidth used.

Users History

Top Policy Breakers : Here you can see top users who break any GFI WebMonitor rules that you made.

Blacklist

You can set the blacklisted sites and it will be blocked from access by all users.

(Server side) Here is a sample that we put *.Google.com in the blacklist

(Client side) Here is the response from GFI WebMonitor SERVER when we visit Google.com

WebFilter Edition

Here you can set a policy with specific sites category that can be blocked or allowed by all users or selected users.

WebSecurity Edition

GFI WebMonitor provides scan and usage control restrictions such as controlling downloads, IM , virus scanning and anti-phishing protection. WebSecurity Edition integrates three popular virus scanning products: Kaspersky, Norman and BitDefender.

1- Download Control Policies :

You can set List of file types you can allow/block/quarantine the users to download it from the internet.

this is example for blocking download flash  files from the internet (click on pictures to see the full size)

this is example for blocking download JPEG (Pictures) and flash  files from the internet (click on pictures to see the full size)

2- Virus and Spyware Protection :

Integrated most popular anti-virus products included with GFI WebMonitor : Kaspersky, Norman and BitDefender

For more information and further inquiries or to download the trial version go to: GFI  Internet Monitoring Software

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Posts on your wall, comments from friends, status updates. These are the tools that help you build your online social interactions. But don’t forget that your online social life relies on a crucial ingredient: your friends’ trust in you. So why let infected links, spam or deftly crafted scams step in and spoil your fun? After all, we’ve all had enough of the “see who viewed your profile” tricks and of its countless siblings.

Using in-the-cloud scanning, Bitdefender Safego protects your social network account from all sorts of e-trouble: scams, spam, malware and private data exposure. But, most importantly, Safego keeps your online friends safe and …close.

To install the app Click Here

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*This is Legit, Registering your e-mail is from AVAST (German Site) & Trial Download from AVAST (US Site)

Register e-mail & you’ll be sent a free Avast internet Security registry License file, Good til April 2012.
1. Extract File, that you received&Downloaded from e-mail.
2. Download Avast internet security trial
Avast Internet Security Trial Link
3. During the installation process, Choose “custom installation” 
4. You’ll be asked for registry file (the file you extracted) during the first step.
5. Browse & locate file.
6. Finish installation.

*The e-mail will be in german.

*Heres the translated version of the e-mail that you’ll receive.

AVAST-use users love / prefer AVAST users

Thank you for your registration.

With this link you can download your personal registration file.

Registry File: http://www.my-avast.de/aktion/AVAST/down/license-com-so-gehts.zip

Com’s article goes like this:http://www.globell.com/aktion/Comsogehts/COMsogehts_0811_avast_IS.pdf

The program activation you please save this file onto your desktop or in My Documents, where you can find this file again.

Licensing can be done in different ways, you have to the software avast! Internet Security directly from the DVD issue of the magazine com! So user’s will.

Once you start the software installation you will be guided through a setup wizard through the installation. You will be asked in the further course of installation for a valid license file. Now you just need to select the directory where you saved the downloaded license file. This license information is read directly from the installation.

You should download avast! Internet Security have been installed as a demo, the licensing is done directly in the program. For this you should already described above, download the license file, and save. To carry out the licensing, you first open the software and select the tab “Administration” menu “subscription” from. There appears “to insert license file” in the window of a button. This window allows you to click and find the path where you saved the license file. Once you have selected your license file, you will be asked by the program whether you want to paste the license information. This you can confirm with “YES” and the process is completed.

It is also possible the license file with an already installed demo version directly read. This works on the license file you saved previously. Just select the license file with a left mouse click and then press the right mouse button. Once the menu appears, move the mouse on the menu item “Open With” and select “aswChLic..” After you have made your selection, you will be asked whether you want to insert the license file and confirm this with “Yes”. Now the process is closed.

Once your license file has been read correctly, including the subscription information, your valid license period are displayed.

We hope that this guide an aid in the licensing of your avast! Internet Security have been to and wish you a safe time with your AVAST software.

Source: http://dealspl.us

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How safe is your PC really?

To put it succinctly: Why signature-based security software is not enough

Normal security software recognizes Malware using Signatures, a type of digital fingerprint. What is problem with this? No fingerprint means no recognition. This means that the Malware must first be known to the manufacturer of the security software before it is possible to create a fingerprint allowing it to be recognized. The fingerprint database on your PC is then updated online on a daily basis. Only then can the Malware be recognized.

You are probably now thinking: “What about new Malware that manufacturer of the security software has never seen? They have no way of making a fingerprint of this…”. Exactly!

This is where the behavior-based Malware defense of Mamutu comes into play. It does not use a fingerprint to recognize dangerous software but rather on the basis of the behavior of the software. This allows Mamutu to recognize new Malware long before the signature databases have been updated. These types of Malware attacks are known as Zero-Day attacks. In addition to this, behavior-based Malware recognition is the only efficient way of recognizing Malware that has been built for a single specific attack, e.g. for industrial espionage.

The perfect security enhancement

Mamutu recognizes and reports the following types of behavior:

• Backdoor related behavior
• Spyware related behavior
• HiJacker related behavior
• Worm related behavior
• Dialer related behavior
• Keylogger related behavior
• Trojan Downloader related behavior
• Injection of code into other programs
• Manipulation of programs (patching)
• Invisible installations of software
• Invisible Rootkit processes
• Installation of services and drivers
• Creation of Autostart entries
• Manipulation of the Hosts file
• Changes of the browser settings
• Installation of debuggers on the system
• Simulated mouse and keyboard activity
• Direct disk sector access on harddisk
• Changes of the system group policies [NEW!]

Full control over internal system activities

You can now decide for yourself what programs are allowed to start on your PC and what actions may be performed. Detailed application rules are now available, allowing you to individually specify the permitted behavior of every application:

• Monitor application, but allow specific activities
  Select this option to always allow particular specific behavior of a program. In certain situations a benign program can contain a function that is very similar to a damaging function and is thus reported. If you are sure that this action is actually not dangerous then you can allow it. All other types of dangerous behavior are still reported.
• Always block this application
  Select this option to permanently block a particular program. You can also use this feature to provide child protection by preventing other PC users from starting a particular application.
• Exclude from protection
  Select this option to completely exclude an application from the monitoring process. Use this when you always trust an application and are sure that it does not execute any damaging actions.

Bonus feature: Application protection

You can use the application rules to protect specific programs from third-party manipulation. For example, this feature is used to prevent Mamutu from being terminated by Malware in order to disable the protection. You can also make use of this feature. You can protect your Browser and other important programs from being illegally terminated.

The program is available for $27.00 (1-year subscription), but it will be free for a limited-time offer by giveawayoftheday.com.

Download Mamutu 3.0 now

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Do you think your PC has a virus?

The Microsoft Safety Scanner is a free downloadable security tool that provides on-demand scanning and helps remove viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. It works with your existing antivirus software.

Note: The Microsoft Safety Scanner expires 10 days after being downloaded. To rerun a scan with the latest anti-malware definitions, download and run the Microsoft Safety Scanner again.

The Microsoft Safety Scanner is not a replacement for using an antivirus software program that provides ongoing protection.

For real-time protection that helps to guard your home or small business PCs against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software, download Microsoft Security Essentials.

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Version: 1.0

General Information

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This Christmas Novosoft LLC gives likeable discounts for packs of Handy Backup and the updates.

Novosoft LLC, an acclaimed international software development and IT-consulting company, announced holiday season hot deal for Handy Backup. This Christmas packs of three licenses for full-featured Handy Backup Standard, Professional, Full, and Server editions go at 33% cut rates. All update plug-ins, including the popular MS Exchange and Database Backup plug-ins, are available for half of the price. Users of Handy Backup versions prior to 6.9 might update their programs with the same 50% economy.

“It has become a part of our culture: Christmas is shopping time,” remarked Nataly Sigaeva, head of Novosoft Marketing department. “As we shopping on a holiday season, we expect likeable discounts to be there. It’s a tricky thing with the cut prices: too small discounts are not what shoppers expect and too large ones result in too small profit available for investment into product development. For tweaking our special offers we use the most sophisticated techniques of discount amount calculation, which nonetheless might be described in terms of a single paradigm: the price is to be the most competitive.”

An opportunity to purchase Handy Backup and plug-ins and update older versions with the special offer economy expires on January, 10, 2011.

Handy Backup is a family of data backup and disaster recovery software for individual PCs (Handy Backup Standard, Professional, andFull), servers (Handy Backup Servers), and Android mobile devices (Handy Backup for Android). Starting from the version 6.9 the software presents advanced online and disaster recovery features.

Prices range from for Handy Backup for Android to for Handy Backup Server. This holiday season packs of three licenses for Handy Backup PC editions and Handy Backup Server might be purchased with the 33% discount. Plug-ins and updates are available with the 50% economy.

To learn more, please feel free to the check http://www.handybackup.net/order.shtml

About Handy Backup Server

Handy Backup Server is the special Handy Backup edition providing means of efficient backup for enterprise networks. The software features centralized remote control of server and workstation backup, synchronization of multiple network drives, data recovery with simultaneous distribution of files and disk images to several network computers at a time, and much more other features. The program is capable of backing up of MS SQL Servers, MS Exchange Servers, Oracle, DB2, Lotus Notes, ODBC-compatible databases, and other important data.

About Novosoft

Established in 1992, Novosoft develops and markets a wide range of B2C and B2B solutions for individual PC users and small- to medium businesses with Windows-based IT infrastructures. The company strives to keep in step with the most advanced technologies and deliver high quality and cost effective software products, ensuring customer satisfaction and trust. For more information, please refer to http://www.novosoft-us.com.

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Nowadays the internet threats is growing up so fast like viruses everyday more than a hundred type is discovered, even the scams and malware  is being smarter and more danger on stealing personal information, so everyone looking for protection solution that can protect them as proactive system to detect the new threats.

There is a lot software that provide the protection service but the problem most of them not that effective or if its good it will slow the system because of the huge usage of the system resources.

Vipre Antivirus is the solution for protection against most of threats (Viruses and Malware) without slowing down the system by using next-generation technology that optimize overall performance even provide antivirus and antispyware together into one, single, powerful tool. This combination of technologies gives you high performance software.

Here is a screenshot for Vipre usage of the resource :

Normal Mode

Scanning Mode

Active Protection incorporates three methods to protect the user:

• Signature matching, comparing a file for an exact match against VIPRE’s definition database
• Heuristic analysis, which looks at the internal characteristics of a file to determine the likelihood that it is malware;
• Behavioral analysis, observing the actual actions of a program to determine if it is possibly malware.

Vipre installation screenshots

The installation is too easy  just download and run the installation file then accept the agreement and choose the place that you want to install Vipre AV into as you see in the screens below.

Click Next

Choose I accept then Click Next

Choose the destination folder the click next

If you want to make a shortcut on the desktop for the software check the box then click next

Just click finish

Do a restart by clicking YES

After finishing the installation when you run the program you will see the starting wizard – Click Next

Here choose which kind of email client you are using the click next

Its recommend to keep these choices to help SUNBELT  labs for fast definition update – Click Next

If you have an Activation key fill it or use the Trail with 15 days – then click next

Click finish

Now it will update the Definition.

Vipre main menu screenshot

The main menu its showing the Protection status and update and worldwide threat level

Here is the scan settings menu, you can assign the type of scan to be more effective

Vipre scanning screenshot

Vipre tools menu screenshot

System tools that help to remove unwanted files and settings that can keep our sensitive information

The best tool that we like is PC explorer it showing all running application and services then analyse it and see if its safe, unknown, suspicious or hazardous

A 15-day fully functioning trial version of VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware is available here: VIPRE Antivirus Trial Download.

For more information with video demonstration about Vipre Antivirus Click Here.

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1. Security

Security is the most obvious reason as to why companies would want to have an automated patch management solution in place. One of the main reasons why software vendors release new patches is to fix security vulnerabilities that can be exploited by malicious software or people intending to damage the IT systems or network.

Applying security patches in a timely fashion highly reduces the risk of having a security breach and all the related problems that come with it, like data theft, data loss, reputations issues or even legal penalties.

2. Company Productivity

An efficient system which deploys patches network wide helps to improve the productivity of the company in many ways. Often patches come with performance improvements for the products they apply to, or fix crashes. Helping employees get rid of these issues will lead to a productivity boost. The improved security also helps productivity. In the majority of cases the worst effect of malware is not the stealing of company sensitive data, but rather the downtime that badly affects productivity. The effect varies from congested networks or slowed down systems because of malware activity, to breakdowns of business critical applications and to systems which are totally compromised and need to be reinstalled from scratch.

3. IT Department Productivity

Productivity gain is easily measured within the IT department. You just need to ascertain how many people and working hours are required to patch the systems manually, and how much you save by using software that automates the process. In fact, for companies that have more than 20-25 computers in their network, the headaches and time required to perform manual patching are so high that, if the company does not have a solution to automate patch management, they probably do not do it at all or it is limited to critical servers only.

4. Compliancy

Recently compliancy has become an important driver for companies to implement a patch management solution. There are more and more laws and regulations that are imposing security best practices on companies and having the systems fully patched is one of the most important security rules.

Government institutions, companies offering financial services and healthcare organizations are among the most affected by these regulations, but the trend is that all companies will need to be secure enough to be able to protect the privacy and data of their employees, customer and partners.

Here is a list with some of the most important standards related to IT infrastructure security: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX), Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLB/GLBA), Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Government Connect Secure Extranet – Code of Connection (GCSx CoCo).

Failure to comply can result in losing opportunities, incurring legal and financial penalties or even losing your business.

5. Keep Up with New Features

Patches can contain new features, adding new functionality or extending support for additional platforms. For organizations this often translates into opportunities to improve or extend their services.

Source: GFI

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Panda Security continues to build better features into the company’s Cloud Antivirus lightweight security suite as a Web filter for URL scanning joins the existing protection tools. Available exclusively today from CNET Download.com, Panda Cloud Antivirus Free 1.3 and Panda Cloud Antivirus Pro 1.3 (), both programs up the ante of what’s expected from cloud-based antivirus programs.

There are few other changes the company has made to the program. Automatic transparent engine and program updates have been bumped from Pro to the Free version, and upgrade nags have been removed as well. Sharp-eyed fans of the client will notice a slight interface refresh to the recycle bin and quarantine windows, unifying them.

Certainly, not having nags makes the program less annoying, while risk-enhancing practice of relegating auto-updates to the premium version is thankfully going away. The Web filter bolsters your Web browser’s native malicious site blocking technology, and works in all browsers including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera, and Safari.

Unfortunately, during installation Cloud Antivirus commandeers your search provider and opts you in to changing it to Yahoo. Otherwise, the installation process is fast. I did notice a slight hiccup during several installation tests where the program appeared to ready to use, but in fact required another five to seven seconds before the interface opened automatically.

Version 1.3 also fixes several major bugs, including a blue screen of death crash after installing and Windows 7 Start menu slowdowns.

For users who are skittish about security clients that are free and in the cloud, Pedro Bustamante, senior research adviser at Panda Security, said that consumers don’t have to pay for security anymore. “You’re getting better protection, better performance, than with any paid suite out there.” He cautioned, though, that there is a point to still using premium suites. “We still have a lot of users who want tech support, who want to call and get somebody on the other line, or who don’t trust free for whatever reason.”

CNET Labs’ benchmarks determined that Panda Cloud Antivirus Free 1.3 had a small but detectable impact on system performance. Read the full review for a detailed analysis, but in short the program could have less of an impact on computer startup times but does have a very fast scan and caused the least disruption to the Cinebench test.

At this point, no independent efficacy tests are available for recent versions of Panda Cloud Antivirus. Panda’s premium security suites have scored well in recent tests, although the detection engines in the two programs are not identical so to compare Panda Cloud Antivirus and Panda Internet Security based on the merits of the two program’s engines alone would be inaccurate.

Source: Cnet

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