Make sure your system is up to date and has the latest protections in place.
AVG anti-virus: 11/08/09
Avast: 11/07/09
Norton anti-virus: 11/04/09
McAfee anti-virus: 11/04/09
Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 11/06/09
Spybot Search and Destroy: 11/04/09
Microsoft Security Essentials: 11/04/09*
Nod32: 11/06/09
Updates as of November 8, 2009 6:00am CDT.
*last update - the system would not update today.
Symantec Corp. has joined forces with Lifelock, to try and protect users from identity theft. But before you get all excited about this venture you need to understand the fine print. The Symantec software that will house Lifelock with come with either Symantec’s Norton Internet Security or Norton AntiVirus. Lifelock will be limited to a [...]
Symantec is saying that Microsoft Security Essentials is not enough to protect users from the threats posed by the Internet. According to the folks at Symantec and AVG, we users need a whole lot more in order to be protected. They have stated the following:
“Early reviews of the beta are showing that it under-performs when [...]
The military calls it ’search and destroy’ amd it appears that is exactly what Microsoft is doing. They have declared war on McAfee and Symantec. Their new Microsoft Security Essentials, aka Morro, will have a HUGE advantage over anything that McAfee and Symantec will be able to offer. It will be 100% free for the [...]
The attorney general for the state of New York has won a settlement from both Symantec and McAfee associated from their policies on automatic renewals. It seems that the anti virus companies were charging users for renewing subscriptions without the direct knowledge of the consumers. Each of the companies will pay $375,000 in penalties and [...]
Three years ago Microsoft entered into the anti-virus software market with their Live OneCare. Live OneCare bit the dust because, well, no one cared. The thinking back than was that Microsoft would steal away business from the likes of Symantec and McAfee. But this didn’t happen. Now Microsoft is getting ready to unveil Morro, which [...]
Make sure your system is up to date and has the latest protections in place.
AVG anti-virus: 03/08/09
Avast: 03/06/09
Norton anti-virus: 03/04/09
McAfee anti-virus: 03/04/09
Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 03/04/09
Spybot Search and Destroy: 03/04/09
Microsoft Windows Defender: 03/04/09
Nod32: 03/06/09
Updates as of March 8, 2009 6:00am CDT.
A new version of AVG is available for download. Version 8.5 free edition can be found here:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_avg_an…
Make sure your system is up to date and has the latest protections in place.
AVG anti-virus: 01/18/09
Avast: 01/16/09
Norton anti-virus: 01/14/09
McAfee anti-virus: 01/14/09
Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 01/08/09
Spybot Search and Destroy: 01/14/09
Microsoft Windows Defender: 01/14/09
Nod32: 01/16/09
Updates as of January 18. 2009 6:00am CDT.
Make sure your system is up to date and has the latest protections in place.
AVG anti-virus: 01/11/09
Avast: 01/11/09
Norton anti-virus: 01/07/09
McAfee anti-virus: 01/07/09
Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 01/08/09
Spybot Search and Destroy: 01/07/09
Microsoft Windows Defender: 01/07/09
Nod32: 01/09/09
Updates as of January 11. 2009 6:00am CDT.
Back on August 1st, 2008, I wrote a review of Norton’s newest Anti-Virus program coming at us for the 2009 computing season. [See review here.] I tried the beta version and found that it was in fact faster and less intrusive than previous versions. I also stated that I would recommend the product and asked [...]
First let me say that I have not personally used any Symantec products since late 2003. But I have seen previous versions of Symantec products such as Norton anti-virus or Norton Internet Security products and have been less than impressed. In fact I have advised clients to uninstall trial ware of Norton on new systems, [...]
About a week ago or so, I download Norton’s 2009 Beta software for a look see. The download file is about 48.9 MB in size. The process to install the beta requires a valid email address, since a product ID number is sent to activate the software. The installation of the software is very quick. [...]
As most of us know, Symantec has been labeled as a resource hog, and many of us have chosen not to use any longer. I wrote an article back in May in which less than flattering remarks were made about Symantec. [See article here.] But one of the comments came from a Symantec representative by [...]
First of all this is not going to be about what anti-virus program is the best, because quite frankly, most A/V programs do a fairly good job of protecting your system. If you wish to argue about the best of the best in A/V protection, there are plenty of forums to vent your preference [...]
Symantec has what is known as a Registry Repair Tool to fix problems for those folks who were running Norton 2008, and updated Windows XP to SP3 or Vista to SP1. The free tool removes errant registry entries that may be hiding after the service pack was installed.
On their site Symantec states:
Numerous registry keys are [...]
I was reading an article in Vista News last night, in which there was an article about ‘Vista Bashing’, which was described as the new ‘National Pastime’. The basics of what the article was trying to present, was the fact that people have always bashed Microsoft and any of their previous operating systems, and that [...]
When I read last week that Symantec was shifting the blame onto Microsoft for the problems that appeared after SP3 was installed on a system running Symantec software, I paused before writing about this. First of all Symantec products have a reputation for being, shall we say, suspect even when nothing else is happening on [...]
I think you better sit down before I tell you that Symantec has finally realized that its software slows down a PC. No duh! For any of us in the computer field, we know that taking Symantec software product off of a PC breathes new life into the machine. The system jumps back to life [...]
A reader by the name of Barrie Orton posted this in the comments section of a previous article I had written here. Not only does Barrie indicate that his system is infected but that he can’t seem to remove the virus as well.
Sadly, I have Norton 360. I read all the bad [...]
Over at Symantec they are warning users of a new Trojan virus that is targeting over 400 banks. According to the post the Trojan can intercept transactions between two parties to gather personal information. In the statement it reads:
This Trojan downloads a configuration file that contains the domain names of over 400 banks. Not only [...]
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