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Antivirus software is a must when you have a personal computer especially when it is connected to the Internet.

Avira AntiVir Premium Ratings >> 99.3% 96.8% 69.2% 2 4-6 hours 14.82 MB per second 100% 100% 10% Rootkits 100% 100% 90% 20% 0% 0% >> >> Pros Good disinfection Some good proactive detection Cons Too-technical UI Lacks behavioral detection Avira AntiVir Premium Edition needs more features and a face-lift before it can become a top choice.

Protecting your computer against Trojans, worms and other invisible exploits is a must in todaya TMs tech landscape.

The craze in online games among Chinese netizens is fueling an increasingly lucrative market for computer hackers, security firms have said.

This Friday is Black Friday--officially kicking off the 2009 holiday shopping season.

Secure Anti-Virus 2010 Ratings >> 99.8% 99.3% 66.7% 0 2-4 hours 8.14 MB per second 100% 100% 50% Rootkits 100% 100% 90% 33.3% 20% 20% >> >> Pros Strong disinfection Cons A few bugs Only middling malware detection F-Secure Anti-Virus 2010 does a good job detecting malware, but it doesn't quite keep up with the top contenders.

G Data swept almost all the malware detection tests, but using it means having to make more decisions than you do with other apps.

November 24, 2009, 06:18 PM - - Trend Micro Antivirus + Antispyware came in last in our roundup of stand-alone antivirus software, weighed down by comparatively poor malware detection, slow scan speed, and a seriously misguided habit of hiding what it does from the user.

BitDefender Antivirus 2010 Ratings PCWorld Rating, November 20, 2009 >> General Performance Signature-based detection of malware and spyware 99.7% Adware detection 95.5% Heuristic detection of new malware 65.3% False positives 1 Average outbreak response time 2-4 hours Data throughput of on-access malware scanner 9.26 MB per second System ...

November 24, 2009, 06:19 PM - - ESET NOD32 has some nice, techie-focused extras and it effectively ferrets out rootkits, but it can't keep up with other antivirus apps when it comes to the essential task of blocking malware.

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Illustration by Andrew Bannecker Criminals today can hijack active online banking sessions, and new Trojan horses can fake the account balance to prevent victims from seeing that they're being defrauded.

November 23, 2009, 09:09 PM - - Shortly after we completed our current antivirus roundup , PC Tools released S pyware Doctor with AntiVirus 2010 , the latest version of its paid antivirus tool.

November 20th, 2009 -Wondershare Software Co., Ltd, the world leading consuming software provider, announces a new product release----Wondershare Spyware Removal on its system utility official website .

Monday, November 23, 2009 What's the difference between spyware, viruses, malware, adware and grayware? We hear these names all the time on the internet and in our email but what are they? What do they do? Let's see if we can define these names and tell you a little more about each one.

Sienna 10:11:44 Tags : Spy software, Mac keylogger, Monitoring Software,Remote Spy Software i1 4 Last sunday,a friend told me that she have got a spy software,a keylogger, on her PC.I was astonished about that ,I thought she was crazy.

Spy Sheriff is the most popular rogue antivirus program. It does all the same things as other rogue antivirus programs, but whoever programmed it was smart enough to make it almost impossible to remove.

If you think that your Mac is less likely to get infected with a virus or a trojan than a PC is, you are absolutely correct.

Rogue anti-virus slingers are getting even sneakier. Instead of offering to clean up non-existent malware threats as per the traditional approach, one rogue scanner offers to clean up images of porn it claims to have found on a prospective mark's PC.

Two alleged cybercrooks have been nabbed in the UK on suspicion of using a well-know Trojan to commit banking fraud.