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Some antivirus vendors treat home users differently from corporate clients by offering watered-down versions of their apps. But not Norman Virus Control 5.0. This desktop software uses the same antivirus scanning engine as the Norman Virus Control for enterprise systems. That alone makes this product a robust challenger to McAfee VirusScan 7.0 or Norton AntiVirus 2003. Unfortunately, that industrial-strength underpinning makes Norman slightly more complex than what the average user needs. We'd prefer a more user-friendly interface and a few additional options for our $60. But for the best of the underdogs, Norman is our choice.
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There's good and bad news in Symantec Norton Internet Security 2006. The good news is that the best-selling Norton suite does a fine job thwarting Internet-bred assaults, including viruses, worms, hacker intrusions, and the like. The new Security Inspector tool uncovers unsafe browser settings and Windows passwords, and Norton now prevents hijackers from changing your browser's home page. The bad news is that, like its top competitor, McAfee Internet Security Suite 2006, the $70 Norton takes a toll on PC performance, particularly during system scans. It also offers mediocre technical support. What's worse, Symantec just raised its annual subscription renewal price by $10. That said, Norton Internet Security 2006 remains a solid $50 upgrade for longtime users, who will benefit from Norton's improved spam and phishing e-mail filters. Everyone else should shop around for a better deal. ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 6 offers similar performance with significantly less impact on system resources.
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For the past two years, Thierry Zoller , a security engineer at N.runs AG, has taken a close look at the way antivirus software inspects email traffic, and he thinks companies that try to improve security by checking data with more than one antivirus engine may actually be making things worse. Why? Because bugs in the 'parser' software used to examine different file formats can easily be exploited by attackers, so increasing your use of antivirus software increases the chances that you could be successfully attacked.
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Trend Micro will become the latest major antivirus software company to provide protection against mobile phone viruses, with new antivirus and antispam software for mobile phones running the Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile operating systems.
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The stocks of major antivirus software vendors were trading lower today after Microsoft announced the release of beta anti-spyware technology it bought in December and said it would begin giving away an improved tool to remove worms and viruses from its customers' computers.
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CA (Computer Associates) is offering free antivirus software to protect the latest Beta 2.0 release of Microsoft's Vista operating system.
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Remote attackers could gain control of systems protected by Symantec's antivirus software as a result of a flaw in Symantec's Antivirus Library, the company confirmed yesterday.
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Heard this one before? You must run antivirus software and keep it up to date or else your PC will get infected, you'll lose all your data, and you'll incur the wrath of every email correspondent you unknowingly infect because of your carelessness.
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Computer Associates caused some headaches last week after its antivirus software inadvertently flagged part of the Windows OS (operating system) as malware.
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In our recent reader poll asking how often you update your antivirus and security software you gave a chilling reply — only one in five voters said they updated their software daily.
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