antivirus solutions

For anyone not already certain, the times are getting harder and harder for your computer. The nastiness that can be picked up is amazing, and it doesn’t take long for it to happen, with the internet to propagate it.
The problem is that it keeps getting harder and harder to keep your personal computer free of [...]

So says the New York Times. The story is that longtime security company McAfee, not a close second, in the market share calculations, is tired of playing second fiddle to industry leader Symantec, who holds a bit over half of the market.
As I stated yesterday, Symantec has built its base largely upon the name recognition [...]

In a story from ComputerWorld, the increased attacks occurring on older Windows versions was put forth by Symantec, no doubt hoping to increase the sales of their products, but I wonder if this might not be a coordinated effort.
Why? Because it’s possible, and Microsoft wants the very biggest of wins with the upcoming Windows 7.
Another [...]

The download of Microsoft Security Essentials is now available. The site is being hammered. And the people are getting in line to download. as a user of Opera, I found that I could not get the transfer to start, Whether it was because of the extreme degree of being hammered, or Opera I don’t know [...]

Neowin has a couple of screen shots of a Microsoft antivirus product, that has been spoken about as code name Morro, for quite some time. The product will be named Security Essentials, presumably to be included with the other ‘essentials’ that Microsoft allows to be downloaded, rather than includes with any operating system.
This does two [...]

Today, over on his column at the ZDNet website, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes speaks of an outcry from some about the upcoming release of Morro, codename for the (ostensibly) free antivirus product, taking the place of Windows OneCare.
He calls this FUD, indicating that the FUD vector begins with the public. Here I think he is very late [...]

Before you dismiss this as the rantings of a fool, think about what has happened, and what is happening right now. I suppose I should have included the word external before the words windows market, as that is truly how it was meant.  (that would have led to too long a title)
Microsoft has released Live [...]

I have to say, the guy(s) at My Digital Life are continuously on the case with deals. It wasn’t so long ago that they had a free 6 month license for Avira Antivirus, and I almost recommended it here, but the paid version showed a bad reaction on my machine, and made it very sluggish [...]

The current darling of the antivirus solutions, NOD32 from eSet, seems to have had a problem recently. It decided that some core Windows files were virus infected, and quarantined them, making the computers unbootable. Not the best thing to do with something that people actually pay for.
Well, everybody has a bad day sometimes, but then [...]