Protect Your Computer from Latest Virus
By Nowshade Kabir [ 16/06/2006 ][ viewed 93 times ]
A deadly new virus under the name of W32/Nyxem-D which spreads via email attached file is set to strike on the 3rd day of every month half an hour after the infected computer boots up. The damage caused by this virus could be extensive. If unsuspecting user opens the infected attached file it gets into the system and start delivering itself to all the available email addresses residing in the infected computer. Once activated it overwrites all DOC, XLS, MDB, MDE, PPT, PPS, ZIP, RAR, PDF, PSD and DMP files by replacing their contents with the data string: DATA Error [47 0F 94 93 F4 K5]. This can create a big mess, as all integrated to the computer drives will suffer. This means your flash cards, network drives, external drives or any drive which gets identified by an alphabet.This virus is also known as "CME-24," "BlackWorm," "Mywife.E" and “Kama Sutra” and seems even capable of disabling out-of-date antivirus software. Over 300 thousand computers are believed to be infected by this worm mainly in India, Peru, Turkey and Italy, where people are less prone to safeguard their computers with up-to-date antivirus programs.What should you do to protect your computer from this and other malware?1. Upgrade your antivirus software. If you don’t have an antivirus software installed and you don’t feel like buying them. These two are excellent antivirus programs you can get for free.AntiVir Personal Edition Classic 6.32(http://www.free-av.com/)Alwil Software Avast Home Edition 4.6 (http://www.avast.com/i_kat_207.php?lang=ENG)2. Scan your computer for possible malware regularly. A great free tool that scans your computer remotely for viruses and eliminates them you can find athttp://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp 3. Get a firewall and install it. A great free firewall that you can download and install is Zonealarm. You can download it from http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp 4. Regularly get patches for your version of Windows and update. 5. Use email filters similar to Eprompter. It gives you the ability to delete unwanted spam or suspicious looking mail, which might contain viruses. Get it free from http://www.eprompter.com.If you take these precautions, your chances of getting infected will be reduced drastically.
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Sunday, March 25, 2007
AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic Review
AntiVir's main window is clean and spare; it performs a quick system scan on launch, and this caught a number of Trojans and other threats in memory. AntiVir couldn't remove them, though. You can determine whether the program should repair infected files, delete them, or delete only if repair fails. You can also set what types of "Unwanted Programs" (that is, spyware) will be removed, and set which heuristic detection techniques are invoked. But you don't have to meddle with the settings—most users may choose to go straight to a full scan.
AntiVir's full system scanner generates a report that includes details about the system, program versions, settings, and scanned files. The report appears designed for submission to tech support, which is available through AntiVir's online forums.
AntiVir's Guard module (the on-access scanner) puts its protection out in the open—if you double-click the tray icon it will display its current settings, current status, and the name of the most recently scanned file. Its "Unwanted Programs" protection, configured separately from the on-demand scan, isn't fully enabled by default. When we turned it all the way on, it was quite effective. We threw nine Trojan and spyware threats at AntiVir, and it blocked eight of them instantly (the ninth was caught when it tried to install). It let all four keyloggers install, but prevented one from logging keys. On the other hand, when installed on systems already infested with spyware, it removed only two of eight threats.
Unlike avast! and AVG, AntiVir doesn't specifically scan incoming or outgoing e-mail messages or attachments. The on-access scan kicks in as soon as an attachment is launched or saved to disk, so this isn't a huge problem. We like AntiVir's ability to exclude up to a dozen processes from on-access scanning—so it can coexist with, for example, a spyware scanner.
AntiVir's full system scanner generates a report that includes details about the system, program versions, settings, and scanned files. The report appears designed for submission to tech support, which is available through AntiVir's online forums.
AntiVir's Guard module (the on-access scanner) puts its protection out in the open—if you double-click the tray icon it will display its current settings, current status, and the name of the most recently scanned file. Its "Unwanted Programs" protection, configured separately from the on-demand scan, isn't fully enabled by default. When we turned it all the way on, it was quite effective. We threw nine Trojan and spyware threats at AntiVir, and it blocked eight of them instantly (the ninth was caught when it tried to install). It let all four keyloggers install, but prevented one from logging keys. On the other hand, when installed on systems already infested with spyware, it removed only two of eight threats.
Unlike avast! and AVG, AntiVir doesn't specifically scan incoming or outgoing e-mail messages or attachments. The on-access scan kicks in as soon as an attachment is launched or saved to disk, so this isn't a huge problem. We like AntiVir's ability to exclude up to a dozen processes from on-access scanning—so it can coexist with, for example, a spyware scanner.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Avira AntiVir Mobile for Windows Mobile 5
Avira AntiVir Mobile offers you professional virus and malware defense for Pocket PCs and smartphones.
Simple installation and updates within seconds:- Transmission of the program package by docking onto the local PC (PDA) or via Bluetooth, IrDA, GPRS or serial cable (smartphone).- Automatic installation of the English or German version – depending on the language set (smartphone).- Simple manual program update via LAN, WLAN or dial-up (PDA) or via Bluetooth, GPRS/GPS or WLAN (smartphone). Update also possible via host PC.- Roll-back in case an update could not be carried out completely.- Automatic scan-on-sync protection (PDA) for secure data synchronization
Individual setting possibilities and transparent status information:- Clear menu navigation that does not set any riddles.- Flexibility through definition of the scanning scope.- Optional scanning of ROM files and/or cards and network folders- Automatic or interactive procedure in the event of a virus detection).- Possibility to delete infected files.- Specific information on every virus detection, so that you are always in the picture. Version information can be requested at any time
Here are some key features of "Avira AntiVir Mobile for Windows Mobile 5":
· Reliable protection against viruses that attack your mobile terminal. In this way you cannot infect yourself or pass on infections to others· Proven, multi-award-winning AntiVir virus and malware protection technology with an extremely high degree of protection, specially designed for use in mobile terminals· Support of current conventional mobile phone models· Minimum RAM load due to slim program package· Fast, resource-saving update through single file update· All licenses incl. free updates, upgrades and 30 day installation support
Simple installation and updates within seconds:- Transmission of the program package by docking onto the local PC (PDA) or via Bluetooth, IrDA, GPRS or serial cable (smartphone).- Automatic installation of the English or German version – depending on the language set (smartphone).- Simple manual program update via LAN, WLAN or dial-up (PDA) or via Bluetooth, GPRS/GPS or WLAN (smartphone). Update also possible via host PC.- Roll-back in case an update could not be carried out completely.- Automatic scan-on-sync protection (PDA) for secure data synchronization
Individual setting possibilities and transparent status information:- Clear menu navigation that does not set any riddles.- Flexibility through definition of the scanning scope.- Optional scanning of ROM files and/or cards and network folders- Automatic or interactive procedure in the event of a virus detection).- Possibility to delete infected files.- Specific information on every virus detection, so that you are always in the picture. Version information can be requested at any time
Here are some key features of "Avira AntiVir Mobile for Windows Mobile 5":
· Reliable protection against viruses that attack your mobile terminal. In this way you cannot infect yourself or pass on infections to others· Proven, multi-award-winning AntiVir virus and malware protection technology with an extremely high degree of protection, specially designed for use in mobile terminals· Support of current conventional mobile phone models· Minimum RAM load due to slim program package· Fast, resource-saving update through single file update· All licenses incl. free updates, upgrades and 30 day installation support
Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium
Professional protection against viruses and malware, adware, Spyware, phishing. Realtime scanning of all files through On-Access Guard. Profile-based On-Demand scans for individually defined scan-jobs. Direct scanning of files or folders directly from Windows Explorer. Pop 3 based MailScanner. Quarantine management to securely lock suspicious files. Scheduling of routine jobs such as updates and scans. Full-fledged reporting system. Direct online access to detailed descriptions for every detected virus. Standard and expert configuration for individually defined configurations. Easy to use through user-friendly control center. that lets you control the program from just one central place: Activate/deactivate modules; do updates; renew your licence; direct configuration of modules. Very fast performance with very low memory footprint. Very high detection rate. Very fast updates through single file update and incremental updates of virus definitions. Licence Manager to easily licence the program.
Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic
Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic - Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic is a comprehensive, easy to use antivirus program, designed to offer reliable virus protection to home-users only.
Avira offers:
1.Extensive Malware Recognition of viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, worms, etc.
2.Automatic incremental updates of antivirus signatures, engine and entire software
3.Permanent virus protection, with Virus Guard real time monitoring
4.Install and configuration in just a couple of steps, setup to protect your PC in minutes
5.Virus protection against known and unknown threats, using an advanced heuristic system
6.Scheduler where you can set the scanner to make automatic virus scans or updates on your system
7.Forum and phone support, Knowledge Base with virus descriptions available on web site
It constantly and rapidly scans your computer for malicious programs (such as viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, hoaxes, worms, dialers etc.), monitoring every action executed by the user or by the operating system and being able to react promptly when a malicious program is detected. Actions include repair, delete, block, rename and quarantine programs or files. This application also features enhanced protection against unknown boot-sector viruses, issuing alerts for boot sectors suspicious formats. Through the permanent update of the detection engine, the protection is ensured constantly: the user can set the product to download any updates when available, thus keeping you clean and safe.
- The Installation Kit comes fully featured.
- In order to involve in charitable projects and to benefit of more features like MailGuard, Adware and Spyware detection, Advanced set-up, etc you may acquire the appropriate Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium license for just 20 Euro. Five euros of every online sale go to the Auerbach foundation that support various social, scientific, cultural or otherwise charitable projects. More info: http://www.avira.com/en/products/antivir_personaledition_premium.html
Avira offers:
1.Extensive Malware Recognition of viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, worms, etc.
2.Automatic incremental updates of antivirus signatures, engine and entire software
3.Permanent virus protection, with Virus Guard real time monitoring
4.Install and configuration in just a couple of steps, setup to protect your PC in minutes
5.Virus protection against known and unknown threats, using an advanced heuristic system
6.Scheduler where you can set the scanner to make automatic virus scans or updates on your system
7.Forum and phone support, Knowledge Base with virus descriptions available on web site
It constantly and rapidly scans your computer for malicious programs (such as viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, hoaxes, worms, dialers etc.), monitoring every action executed by the user or by the operating system and being able to react promptly when a malicious program is detected. Actions include repair, delete, block, rename and quarantine programs or files. This application also features enhanced protection against unknown boot-sector viruses, issuing alerts for boot sectors suspicious formats. Through the permanent update of the detection engine, the protection is ensured constantly: the user can set the product to download any updates when available, thus keeping you clean and safe.
- The Installation Kit comes fully featured.
- In order to involve in charitable projects and to benefit of more features like MailGuard, Adware and Spyware detection, Advanced set-up, etc you may acquire the appropriate Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium license for just 20 Euro. Five euros of every online sale go to the Auerbach foundation that support various social, scientific, cultural or otherwise charitable projects. More info: http://www.avira.com/en/products/antivir_personaledition_premium.html
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