Symantec Loves VIPRE

Our good friends over at Symantec love VIPRE so much, they’ve decided to use the logo in their new marketing campaign!

 

 

We prefer our colors, of course (I like blue) but otherwise, not a bad copy of our logo.

 

 

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

 

Alex Eckelberry -  GFI

 

VIPRE Antivirus Demonstration

 

 

Finally! Security that no longer slows down your PC with Vipre Antivirus

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.

 

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Only 48 Hours to get Free Panda’s Cloud Antivirus Pro By Cnet

Editor’s note: Panda Security is offering free license keys for Cloud Antivirus Pro 1.3 to users who register using This Download Link. You’ll be required to enter your name and e-mail address to receive the license key, which is good for one year. Also note that during the registration process, the checkout cart will state at some point, “Your card hasn’t been charged yet.” This is apparently a cart template and does not affect users who are taking part in the license key giveaway.

 

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Intel sells anti-virus business, waits 12 years, buys anti-virus business

The big news in the IT security industry today is the announcement that Intel plans to acquire McAfee for a jaw-dropping $7.68 billion.

 

Yes, that’s “billion”. Oh to have such pocket money.

 

Of course, those of us with long memories will know that Intel is no stranger to the computer security industry.

 

Indeed they used to have their own anti-virus product (Intel LanDesk Virus Protect) which they sold to Symantec in 1998.

 

 

Now, Intel is purchasing Symantec’s arch-enemy McAfee and re-entering the business.

 

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Immunet Protect 2.0 Now Available

 

As Immunet reaches its two year anniversary I’m extremely excited to announce the launch of Immunet Protect 2.0.  The Immunet team has been hard at work for the past 9 months, building the next version of our free, fast and lightweight cloud-based antivirus product.  We originally launched Immunet Protect 1.0 last August and since then have had over 275,000 people install our product.  Thank you everyone for your support!  Here is what you will see today:

 

1. A re-launch of the Immunet web site which is now live at http://www.immunet.com.  Nobody would argue that our site needed a facelift as our company and membership has grown!

 

2. The release of Immunet Protect 2.0 Free, our free product now includes many of the features that you would expect in a full fledged antivirus product, including full system scan, scheduled scan, context menu scan, and gaming mode.  It also contains a first for the antivirus industry – a built in Community feature that allows you to protect others and share the product with your most trusted contacts.

Immunet Protect’s integrated Community feature allows members to extend virus protection to their most trusted friends and family members.  Once shared, members can view the protection status with those contacts who have also installed the product, giving them confidence when sharing links, photos, and other information online. Community members can view the total protective power of their network, indicating how many viruses they have collectively blocked; we call this their Protection Factor.

 

 

3. The release of Immunet Protect 2.0 Plus, an upgrade from our Free product for users who are looking for complete stand alone protection.  Plus provides advanced protection capabilities including rootkit detection,  offline scanning and sophisticated threat removal.  The product starts at $19.95 for a one computer, one year license; a very competitive price relative to the cost of other antivirus products!

As part of our launch, CNET has covered Immunet on cnet.com with a review from Seth Rosenblatt.  In addition, CNET’s download.com will be offering Immunet Protect Plus 2.0 for free through TrialPay when you take advantage of a third party offer!

 

Upgrade your version of Immunet Protect 2.0 today and join in the effort to protect others!

 

McAfee Antivirus Plus Free For 6 Months

 

 

This McAfee Antivirus Plus provided by EMC-IOMEGA,no need product key and download software client and run the installer only.

 

Go to this web page and click ‘Download’ icon,then enter in your name,email and password,click ‘I Agree’.

 

A print receipt set up for you and click ‘Download’.You need go to your email inbox and getting email sending by McAfee,click the activation link.

 

Click ‘Download’ icon after success activate the link,follow the instruction to process and you will getting McAfee Antivirus Plus for six months.

 

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Scareware hackers exploit McAfee false positive problem

Hackers are exploiting a problem with McAfee’s anti-virus product that has caused hundreds of thousands of computers around the world to repeatedly reboot themselves.

 

The New York Times (and many other news outlets) have reportedon the problems businesses suffered after a detection update issued by McAfee yesterday caused its anti-virus product to mistakenly detect a harmless Windows file, svchost.exe, as “W32/Wecorl.a” and caused computers to become inoperable.

 

To its credit, McAfee is discussing the problem on its online community forum, has apologised, withdrawn the buggy update, and advised customers on how to manually fix the affected computers.

 

But what might be making McAfee’s job of getting reliable information about the false positive problem out to the masses that much harder is that malicious hackers are exploiting the situation.

 

By using blackhat SEO techniques, cybercriminals have managed to get poisoned webpages high in the search rankings if you hunt for information on the McAfee false positive.

If you click on a dangerous link like this then you risk the chance of your computer being hit by a fake anti-virus attack (also known as scareware) which may attempt to con you out of your credit card details or trick you into install malicious code onto your computer.

 

Sophos detects the malware proactively as Mal/FakeAV-BW.

 

The last thing you want to happen if you’re searching for advice on how to fix a problem with the other computers in your company.

 

And it’s not just McAfee’s false alarm problem that these hackers are exploiting. Looking a little deeper at the poisoned domains, allows us to view a cache of hundreds of other pages that this gang have created around a wide range of topics.

Be careful out there folks..

 

 

* Image source: peasap’s Flickr photostream (Creative Commons)

By Graham Cluley, Sophos

 

HouseCall – Free Online Virus Scan NEW v7.1

HouseCall is Trend Micro’s highly popular and capable on-demand scanner for identifying and removing viruses, Trojans, worms, unwanted browser plugins, and other malware.

 

 

HouseCall 7 features an intuitive interface and the ability to perform fast scans that target critical system areas and active malware. It also leverages the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network™ to help ensure that scans catch the latest threats.

 

 

HouseCall 7.1 improves on the recently released HouseCall 7.0 by providing a full system scan option and an option to scan only specific folders. It adds support for 64-bit versions of Windows Vista™ and Windows™ 7.

 

 

HouseCall provides a quick and easy check for threats regardless of the protection status of your existing security solution. For more information about HouseCall, please read the Frequently Asked Questions.

 

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Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.0.1

Panda released a new version of Panda Cloud Antivirus, version 1.0.1. This version is basically a cumulative-fix release which incorporates Hotfix-1, Hotfix-2 and some small additional improvements.

 

The most notable improvement is that we have gotten rid of the initial account registration which used to be mandatory for first-time installs. Panda Cloud Antivirus will not ask for account during install anymore. Only if you want to participate in the Cloud Antivirus Support Forums will you need to create an account.

 

I have Cloud Antivirus 1.0 already installed. Do I need to download & install this version?
Not really. This new version incorporates hotfixes which you probably already have installed anyway. To check if you have them installed, simply browse to “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users” (XP) and you should see a subdirectory called “HF_PCA_somenumber”.

 

I have the hotfixes installed but I still have some problems with Panda Cloud Antivirus. Should I install this version?
Yes you might want to give it a try. Below you can find some more detail of what this version fixes which is not included in the existing hotfixes. In order to install this version on top of the one you already have, first uninstall your current version, then reboot and finally download & install the new version from http://acs.pandasoftware.com/cloud/CloudAntivirus.exe.

 

What’s the changelog of this version 1.0.1?

1. Preactivated version does not require account creation during install
2. Fix for certain conditions of stuck quick & full scan
3. Improved cloud-heuristic detection for unknown malware – From HF_2
4. Improved prevalence algorithms for priorization of new malware – From HF_2
5. Fix of problems scanning certain files in system directories – From HF_1
6. Fix for loss of connectivity after malware disinfection involving LSP – From HF_1
7. Improved cloud-heuristic detection – From HF_1

 

 

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