Lumension Antivirus (LAV)
Recently held a preview of the new solutions from the company Lumension - Lumension Antivirus (LAV), the result of joint work Lumension, and Norman Antivirus.
The main features and advantages of the new solutions are: Signature analysis: allows you to identify, block and remove viruses, worms, Trojans and other malicious programs.
The unique behavioral analysis: protects against new and yet unknown threats (zero-day threats) using the methods of DNA Matching and SandBox; identifies malicious code disguised as documents OLE2, MDB, WMF, JPEG, RIFF, and SWF.
Support for third-party management systems: support for email, SNMP, SMS, Syslog, Event-log with the possibilities of logging, reporting, send notifications, etc.
Good Scalability: complies with both small and medium enterprises (integrated solution, easy installation and maintenance), and large corporations (valid for the full protection of the complex heterogeneous environment).
Easy to use Web-based console for management: it includes a powerful built-in tool for rapid deployment and implementation, an extensive set of predefined security policies, the necessary momentum indicator, a system of custom notifications and alerts.
Protecting remote computers: protect all corporate machines, regardless of network connectivity.
Automatic signature updates: supports automatic updates without the need for control by the administrator.
Full comprehensive cleaning: ensures that all identified threats are automatically placed in quarantine, and not one of them will not harm or spread through the network.
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Recently in Washington, was shown a revolutionary weapon to combat hackers.
Company InZero Systems will produce a device that is struggling with a virus does not at the program, and the microprocessor level. The device is similar to the remote modem, it will be embedded directly into computers.
The developers claim that the seemingly endless war against hackers after the introduction of their new technology will be victoriously completed.
The authors of the new technology - came from Ukraine and Russia - Alexei Shevchenko and Alexander Pyntikov. Last year, the development was presented in Moscow at the Academy of Sciences of Russia. While it still existed as a prototype.
At the same time InZero Systems has signed letters of intent on testing the new device with the Academy of Sciences of Russia and a number of large Russian companies. Now it is patented in the United States, and its authors plan to begin commercial sales of the device.
Not so long ago became available the final version of Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.0. This is a modern anti-virus solution from a leading manufacturer of protective equipment based on technology "cloud" computing, and can effectively withstand a wide range of threats without causing significant impact on the performance of client systems.
Software is staffed by a simple and user friendly interface. The main application window that is displayed when you start the Cloud Antivirus, allows you to instantly receive information about the current state of the system. Big red icon alerts the user about the danger, and an icon of green reports no threats. Like most anti-virus solutions, Cloud Antivirus will take a quick scan mode, or to check the selected drives, folders and files. However, application performance can impress even the most demanding users.
If desired, the user can send information on detected threats on the server or activate the automatic control and protection. A built-in mechanisms for generating reports provide a full list of threats detected and dismantled. Easy filtering tools will quickly find reports created in the last 24 hours last week or a month ago.
Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.0 differs from similar solutions is extremely modest appetite for system resources. Thorough beta-testing showed that the developers managed to keep its promises. Cloud Antivirus consumes about 9 megabytes of RAM in standby mode and only 56 megabytes in the scanning process.
Special mention deserves the exceptional stability of anti-virus. Protective mechanisms will not be deactivated in case of disconnection from the "host". The solution from Panda supports offline mode, while maintaining a small part of the online database Collective Intelligence on the hard disk of client PC. Locally stored fragment contains information about the newest and most dangerous threats.
The worm activates, fake anti-virus attacking
According to the latest report by Microsoft, the level of infection by viruses corporate environments in the first half of 2009 grew by 100%.
The most active is Conficker - his methods of reproduction in a secure firewall network environment have proved most effective. Interestingly, the level of infection with the virus home PCs below, according to experts, this is due to the fact that anti-virus software home systems are usually updated automatically.
Taterf worm was detected in the test array PC 156% more than in the second half of 2008, and especially of the players online role-playing games (MMORPG). The success of his attack is linked not only with the use of social engineering, as with the use of unprotected plug drives and uncontrolled file-sharers. At the same time, the prevalence of viruses of the family Zlob has declined considerably, with 21.1 million infected PCs in 2007 to 2.3 million in the first half of 2009
Products and services Microsoft removed malware for 1 st half of 2009 with more than 13 million PCs (in the 2 nd half of 2008 - from 16.8 million PCs).
According to the report, the greatest danger, as always, are fake anti-virus software: millions of people have been the victim «scareware», programs that display false warnings about the infection, hoping to scare users and force it to download a fake antivirus.
The infection rate and rating of risks vary depending on the region. The most affluent are Japan, Austria and Germany, where regulations are in place to counter the use of pirated software, and implemented projects in cooperation of Internet providers and others organizations for user training, network security, identify botnets and countering them.
Kaspersky Lab announced that Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 has successfully passed testing and received the highest marks from the lab AV-Comparatives.
Austrian lab AV-Comparatives has published a report on the results of comparative testing of 16 popular anti-virus solutions, conducted in September 2009 for removal of malware, including Kaspersky Internet Security 2010, ESET NOD 32 Antivirus 4.0, AVG Anti-Virus 8.5, McAffee VirusScan Plus 2009, Avast! Professional Edition 4.8.
To identify the quality of anti-virus have been carefully selected 10 samples of different malicious programs, including such widely spread viruses and Trojans, as NetSky, RJump, Rustock and ZBot.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 has received the highest grade AV-Comparatives, by deleting all used in the testing malware on the infected computer. Not only is Kaspersky Anti-Virus showed decent result, the details you can see in the report.
Panda Security, a company manufacturing security solutions, today announced new versions of household products Panda 2010 with the support of the new operating system Windows 7.
All users on computers that are running or will be installed this operating system can take advantage of free trials and commercial versions of Panda 2010.
Panda 2010 differs in that direct contact in real time with an extensive knowledge base that allows the company to offer users the most rapid response to the daily appearance of new malware, say manufacturers.
Microsoft Security Essentials is not yet perfect
Released recently antivirus Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) in some cases for several days does not download the latest virus definition updates, despite the fact that they already exist on the server for updates. This conclusion, the authors came to testing conducted for the computer magazine "c't". As a result of the situation, this antivirus is not able to offer a reliable level of protection.
Tests have shown that despite the availability of Internet connection, under certain conditions, MSE can not download updates to the database up to a week. Play these conditions can, for example, if you regularly convert a laptop into hibernation by closing its lid. Following the resumption of work and time finding the web antivirus still assures the user that all necessary signatures are installed, and that the PC user is protected.
A closer look at the date of the last update yet allows us to understand that the signature is often not updated for a few days, despite the fact that the manufacturer has time for this time to release several new sets of virus databases. Rather, the problem is that the MSE checks for updates in certain strictly defined hours and if at that time the computer is in sleep mode and then restored to its working condition, then the update is not happening.
Let's hope that soon this bug will be fixed, and in Microsoft Security Essentials will be no more problems with updating the antivirus databases.
How to uninstall antivirus?
Perhaps you may seem a strange title "how to uninstall antivirus", because this blog is dedicated to the contrary anti-virus protection. But, as practice shows, sometimes there is a need to uninstall anti-virus, for example, to install the product of another company. This is where the problems may arise because some anti-virus software is not so easy to remove.
The first of what should take care about is that the installation files for the new anti-virus program already on your computer. Why is this important? Because in the process of uninstalling / installing better turn off the computer from the Internet, in order not to leave your computer unprotected even for a minute.
In addition, if you think that the uninstall process may be a problem, you can immediately see the recommendations on the official site of the manufacturer of your antivirus program.
The most common problems with the uninstall antivirus programs is that many of them are resident module that is in a constant mode to protect your computer from threats. In addition, some antivirus programs have a special protection so that they could not knock out viruses. Initially, therefore, these processes need to be unloaded from memory.
Open your antivirus, disable real-time protection (computer must already be disconnected from the Internet), then close itself antivirus.
Then the uninstall process (for users of Windows) in most cases the standard:
1. Open the Windows Control Panels.
(Start> Control Panel or Start> Settings> Control Panels).
2. Double-click on Add / Remove Programs.
3. Select You Antivirus program.
4. Click the Remove button.
5. Click Yes to confirm that you want to remove the software.
6. When uninstallation is complete, restart (or restart later) your computer.
In some cases, are more concerned with older versions of antivirus software, after the standard uninstall, you must manually find and delete the rest of his folders.
It would be very grateful if you tell us in comments about his problems with the uninstall antivirus, as well as about how you solved them.
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