Free Cloud AntiVirus Security Startup Immunet Reaches 500,000 Members
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Immunet, the developer of next-generation security and Cloud AntiVirus technologies, today announced it has reached over 500,000 users of its free AntiVirus product, Immunet Protect. Immunet Protect 2.0 launched in June 2010 and received a 4.5 star rating from CNET. Immunet provides real-time protection from over 14 million threats through the Immunet ...
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Microsoft Warns Of Malware Faking Virus Alerts
New scareware known as Rogue:MSIL/Zeven uses a social-engineering attack to sucker users into buying a fake antivirus program.
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* How to Secure Windows *
In previous OS News articles, I've claimed that mature computers up to ten years old can be refurbished and made useful. My last article identified and evaluated different ways to refurbish these computers. One approach is to keep the existing Windows install and clean it up. This has the advantage of retaining the Windows license and software, the installed applications, and the existing ...
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A week in security: Twitter and Facebook boost defences
This week in security was dominated by the VMworld 2010 conference in SanFrancisco and some interesting partnership/acquisition activity which could helpDell and CA offer more secure products.
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AVG Threat Labs to Provide Innovative, Free Detection Tools to Internet Community
AMSTERDAM----AVG Technologies, developers of the world’s most popular free anti-virus software, today announced a limited public beta test of its new online tool, AVG Threat Labs. Designed to help consumers combat criminal elements on the Web, Threat Labs is an innovative online information portal that merges the quantitative Web threat detection data that AVG routinely collects from its almost ...
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