Avira

That’s what many people who work in IT ask themselves. What is to be included to get the correct message in place, without bringing in details lost on all but the most knowledgeable?
A small story in Maximum PC speaks of a listing and article found in a business publication, eWeek, that gives the most essential [...]

Over at independent comparator and evaluator, AV-Comparatives, we see that in one of their latest tests, Microsoft Security Essentials is rated at the top of  all the free antivirus products and very high when the paid versions are thrown in.
I don’t debate the results. I don’t doubt that the site has gotten them after their [...]

The Microsoft Security Essentials product is very nice for a free product, and becomes a good line of defense for the otherwise indolent. The computer merely has to be on, and connected to the internet, in order to be updated at regular intervals.
But there exists a group of people who are not comfortable with the [...]

Symantec, destroyer of all things good (Norton Utilities, Central Point Software, XTree Software, and a cast of thousands…) has once again reacted inappropriately to the release of the Microsoft Security Essentials, with a little video, (ostensibly) showing us that free software has a price.
Well, the video is not something that will engross anyone but the [...]

Just about the time you thought it was at least possible to casually peruse the internet without full armor, it appears that it’s time to put the chainmail back on, no matter how much it chafes.
Places you thought you could trust are popping up with embedded trojans, making it unsafe to peer through your firewall [...]

After a short time in beta, where people were making almost magical claims of its powers, the Microsoft Security Essentials will leave the beta moniker behind tonight at midnight, and be available for download.
Since it will be free to all who have legitimate copies of Windows operating systems, I wonder how many people will be [...]

It makes me wonder just how many years the company can put out shoddy software, and trade on the name of fine software that used to be put out by the Peter Norton Company.
Despite the fact that we seem to get at least one story per year, retelling the story of how the Symantec offering [...]

I have long been a fan of Grisoft’s AVG antivirus solution for Windows, but lately, I have stopped using it on my personal machines, instead using Avira Antivir.
Both of these are free, and for some, Avira might not be a great solution, as there is no e-mail component. If you open lots of untrusted e-mail, [...]

In one of my infrequent stops at PC Magazine, I happened upon the announcement that Symantec, owner of the once respected Norton trademarks, is releasing the newest revisions of its Norton Internet Security and Norton Antivirus products. The products are dubbed 2010, and will be released sometime later this year, probably to coincide with the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today, there are so many bad things waiting to happen to anyone { using Windows } when they connect their machine to the internet that an antivirus is as important as password protecting e-mail accounts. So important is it that when Windows XP Service Pack 2 came out, the little red shield icon came to [...]

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 [...]