Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2013

The 2013 updates to the Kaspersky protection suites bring to consumers some of the most advanced security technology currently available. It involves introducing an exploit prevention engine as part of the security suite, but also a Safe Money banking protection tool that you can interact directly with. The suite's scans aren't the fastest, but it definitely will protect you.

Installation

Installing Kaspersky has been dramatically simplified over the past two years. Following on 2012's fuss-free install, the installer for 2013 will remove conflicting security programs and any detected malware automatically.

You're still on the hook for a reboot, but not when running only the trial. The install procedure was only three screens long, and it took under 2 minutes to complete. You can also register and purchase a license key from the program itself, no need to jump to your browser. Overall, this is one of the best installation processes for a security suite, if by best you mean, "short, fast, and painless."

Interface

Kaspersky's followed up last year's overhauled interface with only minor tweaks this year to accommodate new features. The number of windows you must go through to initiate a scan, or to solve a problem warning, has been reduced.

Based on a mobile app-drawer design, the interface presents your security status at the top and stashes the four major security features of scanning, updating, the new Safe Money, and parental controls, at the bottom. The app drawer layout puts key security status information up front, and keeps your tools organized yet easily accessible below. You can slide the features sideways to see more options, or click the arrow at the bottom to pull up, drawer-style, the full list of options. Settings and Reports live in the upper right corner, and both use terminology repeated throughout the interface. This creates a solid level of consistency, and ought to appeal to basic security consumers and power users alike.

Features and support

Kaspersky 2013's newest and best features come in the form of some very forward-thinking security improvements.

The most important of them is the exploit blocking engine called Automatic Exploit Prevention. It's a response to the increase in the number of phishing attacks and includes an antiphishing engine -- similar to the antivirus and anti-malware engines -- that updates daily.

It's hard to overstate how critical stopping exploits can be to stopping large-quantity cash thefts from online banks. Experts have estimated recent successful banking breaches at scoring from $3 million to more than $220 million, and Kaspersky says that the exploit prevention engine stops the vast majority of exploit kits. -Cnet

Avast Free Antivirus To Download

Avast continues to push the envelope of top-shelf free security features with hybrid update tech, file reputation analysis, and more. It's independent benchmarks are a bit weak, but more than 150 million people trust Avast to keep them safe.

Avast Free Antivirus is a full-featured product, with the same antivirus and anti-spyware scanning engine used in our premium products. Version 7.0 provides even faster protection than its predecessor and offers a web-reputation browser extension as well as virtualization technology.

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AVG AntiVirus Free 2013

AVG's updates for 2013 look to the future while struggling to overcome the problems of the past. There's a new interface optimized for Windows 8 that really does make the suite easier to use, and the suite once again tackles its lengthy installation procedure. However, one of the best new features in AVG was actually introduced as a midyear update during 2012.

The installer itself now weighs in at 33MB, down from more than 100MB two years ago. The installer also does not require a reboot. This isn't surprising for Windows 8, but even on computers running Windows 7 and older, installing AVG will be reboot-free. Unfortunately, not only do you still have to opt out of AVG's toolbar and SafeSearch if you don't want them, but even when you choose only the toolbar, it commandeers your default location bar search in Firefox. This is, of course, problematic because the toolbar provides some important security options, such as AVG Do Not Track.

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Antivirus : F-Secure Easy Clean updated

F-Secure has released an updated version of its stand-alone antivirus detector, Easy Clean.

The new build is smaller than previous releases at under 4MB. You can scan your system just by launching the executable; no installation is required. But most usefully, Easy Clean now contacts F-Secure’s cloud-based servers to obtain details about the very latest threats, so there’s no need for it to download regular updates. (Although, of course, this does also mean that you now must have a fully functional internet connection for Easy Clean to be of any use.)

There are, of course, plenty of similar tools around which promise to offer a similar second line of antivirus defence. And you may prefer these for multiple reasons. Easy Clean only appears to do a relatively quick scan of running processes, for instance; if you’re trying to hunt down a really stubborn infection then you may prefer something which offers a more thorough and complete system scan.

Free Software Avira AntiVir Personal Version 10

Finishing top in terms of popularity among downloaders and recording excellent results in lab tests, Avira Antivirus has proven to be very successful over the past three years. The software suit pretty much covers all the necessary bits, consisting of Antivir, AntiDialer, AntiRootkit, AntiSpyware + AntiAdware (added in version 9) and WebGuard (new to version 10 service pack 2). It is a free fully comprehensive security solution ensuring users remain protected from viruses, spyware, other malware, rootkits, worms, Trojans and costly dialers.

The latest service pack 2 includes certain new features as well as those existing features that ensure Avira competes in a competitive anti virus industry. It offers full anti-spyware and anti-adware abilities, and a re-built heuristic detection system.

One-click threat removal, a feature newly added to Avira 9 has been enhanced to include extensive cleaning of the hard drive as well as the registry in the event of an infection. Settings can be adjusted to allow users to deal with threats individually or as a group. This combined with behavior-based and heuristic detection, which catches undiscovered malware according to the way the code looks and acts. Avira continues to excel in the realms of detection. Service pack 2 also features improved rootkit detection to help protect users from hard-to-find malware.

The scan log has been expanded in version 10. It means more detailed scan reports are now available upon completion of the scan. Avira have tried to provide more information to growing number of users with above-average knowledge of antivirus security. In addition scans can be tailored around users’ requirements, for example if the user is nipping out of the office for 10 minutes then a 10-minute scan can be launched. It operates a multi-engine system that ensures that means scans are fast, efficient and don’t eat up too much memory.

Avira has removed explicit email scanning from the latest version. But users should not panic as the newly opened emails are still treated as files. It means the threat of email-based attacks to users still remains minimal. What’s more the newly added Avira WebGuard offers an expanded notification page whenever it blocks a harmful website. Although there has been reports that theWebGuard is too buggy.

-http://news.brothersoft.com

AVG and LimeWire Join Hands for Your Security

AVG Technologies is the company that specializes in providing antivirus and internet security protection to home and business users – the company is better known for its very popular free antivirus solution AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0. LimeWire is the company behind the popular P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing client, that works on computers powered by Microsoft’s Windows operating system, Apple’s Mac OS X, or Linux.

AVG Technologies and LimeWire announced that they joined hands to provide an enhanced level of security to the computer user. LimeWire’s premium product, LimeWire Pro now comes with AVG Anti-Virus protection. Thanks to the properly good virus protection provided by AVG’s antivirus solution, LimeWire Pro user can now download data safe in the knowledge that AVG will detect and remove.

LimeWire licensed the AVG Anti-Virus SDK (Software Development Kit) engine and integrated it into LimeWire Pro, thus providing antivirus and antispyware protection to LimeWire Pro customers. Before LimeWire Pro allows any file to be played or executed, said file is scanned by AVG’s security solution.

And now, comments from the involved parties:

“Peer-to-peer networks have come a long way. People are using peer-to-peer networks to share files and documents, and we are pleased to be protecting them,” said Rocco Donnino, SVP of Global Strategic Alliances, AVG Technologies. “AVG is committed to securing our online world, whatever it takes.” The ad hoc architecture of peer-to-peer networks affords no central point where security policies can be enforced, making the networks vulnerable to infected files, adware, spyware and other malware creeping into the system. It is incumbent upon users to secure their computers in order to protect both their own computers and the general health of their peer-to-peer network.