Every computer security company under the sun releases new versions of their product line once a year. AVG is no difference, and the latest versions of the company’s security software has just been released to the public. AVG Anti-Virus Free 2012 is, the name implies it already, the free basic version of the company’s security [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

I get troubleshooting emails on a wide variety of subjects, it’s always great when you can help people out and one I received this week was from someone who’d bought the latest version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus in response to a minor virus attack on her PC. Kaspersky removed the virus diligently enough, but it had [...]

Categories: Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic

The latest anti-virus test figures for Windows 7 are out and there are a good few shocks to be seen in the results. In the tests performed by AVTest, BitDefender has leapt from ninth place since last year to 1st place in the chart.  Bullguard follows it closely having leapt even further all the way up from [...]

Categories: Security

Normally any software company that finds one of its product keys being shared on torrent websites would crack down pretty quickly by withdrawing it.  Not Avast however who, according to a report by PC Pro magazine decided to track installs with it to see how far it would spread. The company stayed deathly silent for [...]

Categories: Security

Intel, the world’s biggest manufacturer of computer processors has announced it’s to buy security technology firm McAfee for $7.68bn (£5bn) in cash the BBC reports.  The deal values the anti-virus firm at $48 per share, almost 60% higher than it’s closing share price yesterday. Intel says it will utilise McAfee to help it build security [...]

Categories: companies

No, the BBC isn’t trying to subsidise its coffers by branching out into cyber-crime.  As an experiment the British public-service broadcaster wants to know just how secure smartphones really are. The malware takes the form of a game that spies on the smartphone’s owner and was built using the standard software toolkits that are available  [...]

Categories: Hacking

What do you mean – “scan your Linux machine for viruses”? Linux is immune to viruses right? Well…mostly. Even though a proof of concept virus has been discussed, and nothing has actually made it into the wild…you still have email on your system. Some of that email could easily make its way (by way of [...]

Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Open Source, Security, Software, Tutorials Basic

By now you have your Postfix mail server up and running (see “Install Postfix for reliable email delievery“). You even have relaying working (see “Mail relaying made simple with Postfix“). But one of the most important features you can add to a mail server is an system to prevent viruses from being passed to users. [...]

Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Software, Tutorials Advanced

You don’t usually here that phrase spoken “Linux anti-virus”. But it does exist. One of the more popular Linux anti-virus tools is ClamAV. But to most users (especially new users) ClamAV is a bit challenging to use. That is where KlamAV comes in. KlamAV does an outstanding job of making ClamAV a user-friendly tool. Unlike [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Security, Software