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.
The popularity of Twitter and other social networks has led to what were often used services like Tiny URL. What gave the attackers a good reason to hide the addresses of poisoned sites.
AVG company has developed for these purposes LinkScanner. Thanks to AVG LinkScanner may be found poisoned page, since it checks the destination URL of each link in real time and not rely on blacklists.
What can the AVG LinkScanner ®:
Scans the pages behind all the links you click or type into your browser;
Scans the results of web searches in Google, Yahoo! and MSN so you know whether a page is safe before clicking on it;
Uses the intelligence gathered by a global community of online threat detectors;
Analyzes individual pages rather than entire sites because single pages may be threatened.
As a result, you will always have the opportunity to learn how to secure a given url address.
It was also reported that the new product is distributed for free. The only requirement: the operating system, under which installed Microsoft Essentials Security, must be genuine. That is, the appropriate test to withstand the Microsoft. However, this is not surprising. Even the updates for pirated Windows will not be installed.
MSE - not the first experience of Microsoft in the field of information security. If we talk about client applications, many remember the service OneCare, as well as anti-spyware program Windows Defender. However, both products are not sufficiently known. As for the corporate segment, there is Microsoft offers a package of Forefront Client Security, which, of course, already subject to a fee basis.
But who will compete Microsoft Essentials Security? It is clear that in the first place, free antivirus. However, such programs are not so much. Development of anti-virus - a process quite laborious, and requires sustained financial and human resources. In this segment of the MSE has an opportunity to become a leader, because a number of parameters it surpasses free antivirus programs. First of all - to the promised update frequency. The new base for the product are produced every few days, just as happens in the market of commercial products.
In addition, due to low system requirements of Microsoft's new antivirus certainly interested users netbooks.
But whether Microsoft Essentials Security to compete with commercial products? I think that the well-established brands do not have to worry. They always find to get around than the free product. What do you think?
Anti-Virus for Mac: Advanced Protection for your Mac
On pages Antivirus Ratings is not the first time referred to Kaspersky Lab. At this time the leading manufacturer of security systems from malicious and unwanted software, hacker attacks and spam, has reported the output of new solutions to protect Macintosh computers from all types of malicious programs.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Macintosh is based on a fundamentally new antivirus engine from Kaspersky Lab, which provides a radical improvement in the scanning speed of the system due to the optimized use of computing resources, in particular, platforms based on dual-and quad processors.
A new product for Mac OS X (version 10.4.11 and above) combines the advantages of the new antivirus engine and an approach based on the protection of home or corporate network from multiplatform (not only inherent to Mac OS X) information threats.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Macintosh not only protects against viruses, worms and trojans for Mac OS X, but also counteracts the same threats to the Windows operating systems and Linux.
With the release of the operating system, Mac OS X, which is considerably simplified the interaction of multiplatform computers, Mac-computers have become an integral part of many corporate networks and home networks. Through such an unprotected machine, both through the open gate, malware can enter any of the computers on the network, the park which can be tens of thousands of pieces within the same organization.
In order to provide greater protection for mixed networks, Kaspersky Lab has provided a new product available to its global anti-virus database, which contains information on more than 20 million malware programs for different computer platforms. Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Mac gets update antivirus databases every hour, as well as anti-virus products for the family of operating systems, Windows and Unix, which provides real-time protection of users' computers from a number of new malicious programs appearing daily on the Internet.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Mac checks for Internet downloads and e-mail attachments and different distribution of consumption of computer resources. If user activity is increased, the priority of the anti-virus scanner is reduced, giving the user full access to the computer power and increasing the productivity of user applications.
It should be noted that Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Mac protects the shared folders of virtual machines, the increasingly popular not only among corporate and home users. Thus preventing the transfer of viruses in the working environment with virtual Windows or Unix, that will be appreciated by people who work with multiple operating systems on a Macintosh.
Knowing that a convenient and attractive interface is very important for Mac-applications, Kaspersky Lab has provided a new product fundamentally new animated interface. It is very easy to use, both for beginners and professionals. Information about protection status and required actions are available to users in a visual and accessible form. The new product is based mode of application in which the program does not bother the user redundant requests independently taking all the decisions.
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