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McAfee is an industry leader in computer protection and VirusScan is their #1 defense against viruses. This software comes with a ScriptStopper, to prevent virus to propagate from one computer to another via email, and WormStopper. |
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Norton, a big player in security software, offers competitive antivirus protection. The AntiVirus 2007 suite is easy to use and has extensive security features to protect your PC from malicious programs. Some of this protection includes instant messaging scanning, script blocking and POP3 and SMTP email protection. However, this software doesn’t provide protection from P2P or file sharing transfers. |
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AVG Anti-Virus has everything you need in an antivirus program: email scanning to include email attachments, boot scanning and auto updating of the virus definitions. From the basic interface, you can quickly do one of three tests: the Complete Test, Removable Media Test and Quick Test. |
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Formerly known as eTrust EZ Antivirus, CA Antivirus is an easy-to-use program that's good for computer novices and does a good job protecting your files and your computer from viruses. |
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We rated Norman Virus Control as a “very good” antivirus program. It passed the Virus Bulletin and ICSA 2007.
This software isn't as user-friendly as some of the top-ranked products and may be difficult for computer novices.
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Malware authors have written a worm for Orkut, Google-owned networking site that's big in BraziThe Scrapkut worm uses active code injection to spread between victims and their friends on Orkut. The malicious code appears on a victim's scrapbook, containing a link to a supposed YouTube video. |
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A dodgy anti-virus update from McAfee on Wednesday wrongly identified legitimate JavaScript files as a virus in the second such screw-up by a major security vendor in less than a week. |
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Vista security credentials tarnished in malware survey |
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CA issues false warning on JavaScript apps |
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Update Symantec is working on a patch for a bug that generates errors in corporate security protection updates. Workarounds designed to quell the message storm are available but a more comprehensive fix is still in testing.
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