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Friday, April 25, 2008

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BitDefender Antivirus Free Edition

BitDefender Free Edition

BitDefender Free Edition is your chance to use one of the world's most effective antivirus engines for free! BitDefender Free Edition uses the same ICSA Labs certified scanning engines found in other BitDefender products, allowing you to enjoy basic virus protection for no cost at all. BitDefender Free Edition is an on-demand virus scanner, which is best used in a system recovery or forensics role. If you are on an "always-on" Internet connection, we strongly advise you to consider using a more complex antivirus solution.

Features

Virus scanning and removal

On demand scanning - Powerful scan engines ensure detection and removal of all viruses in the wild every time you need it.

Scheduled scanning - The Scheduler lets you plan ahead, and schedule full system/drive scans in the off hours, when you won't be using your computer.

Immediate scanning -With just a right click you can check your files and folders. Skinable interface -You can express yourself, designing new interfaces, or you can use those drawn by others.

Quarantine - By isolating the infected files in quarantine, the risk of getting infected diminishes. You also have the possibility to send these files for further analysis to BitDefender Labs.

ReportsWhen launching a scan you may choose to create a report file where you can see statistics about the scan process.

System requirements: Pentium MMX 200 Mhz or higher processor Minimum 64MB of RAM Memory (128MB recommended) Minimum 40MB available hard disk space Operating platform: Windows 98/NT-SP6/Me/2000/XP IE 4.0(+)

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

BitDefender Total Security 2008

The time of the year has arrived when the online security manufacturers swoop on mass to release their latest wares and so it is with BitDefender Total Security 2008, which from the look of the new interface has been designed to go head-to-head with Symantec Norton 360. It’s a slim 41MB download, so even if you’re on dial-up you won’t find it too much of a taxing download.

The interface has been simplified and is built around four keys functions, Security, Parental Control, Tuneup and Backup. To keep things simple, the program checks the status and if thing are fine you should see a row of four ticks across the screen. When an issue arises you’ll find an exclamation mark. To emphasis status, the program uses a traffic light style colour coding. If a problem arises, click Fix It button and the problem will usually be resolved. For the average user this is about as complicated as it gets.

When it comes to checking for viruses, this latest version has grouped antivirus and anti-spyware together, which not only makes more sense but also speeds up the scanning process considerably. BitDefender has always been a powerful package but the 2008 version is even better than we expected. As with similar tools, you can choose to run manually or setup a schedule to best suit you. Updates are automatic and when we were testing it out, seemed to arrive almost daily.

It’s not only the speed of scanning that has been optimised, as the scanning now also handles malware far more effectively and even supports the clearing out of rootkits, something previous packages didn’t. This means even if you’ve installed the program on a PC that is already infected, it will find it and eliminate it. Malware is isolated as it’s found and when found won’t even allow you to open the offending email let alone the file attached.

There is now a Games mode, which will automatically disable updates and popups when you’re playing online. This may not sound like much but if you’ve ever experienced these when gaming online, then you’ll know how infuriating they can be.

An internet security suite wouldn’t be complete these days without adding a little more and just as with Symantec with Norton 360, it’s a range of clean-up tools that add to Total Security. So, you’ll find utilities to clean up your registry entries, clear out duplicate files and generally clean up the system. There is even a defrag tool that works faster and better than the one shipping with Windows, so you’ll find this package really does live up to its name.

VERDICT

BitDefender Total Security 2008 has a lot to live up to, not only in terms of its name but also the rival competition on the market.

In both instances, we found it more than capable. So much so, that this may well our new favourite security product and it doesn’t cost the earth to protect your PC.

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Kaspersky Internet Security review

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Parental control is brand-new in this version of the suite, and its newness shows. On the plus side, it does offer multiple configuration profiles you can associate with specific Windows user accounts. By default, all users fall under the Child profile except those explicitly assigned to the Parent (no filtering) profile. You can also enable a Teenager profile and manually configure it for less-stringent filtering. The help system explains in detail how to create a custom profile—but this feature is not actually present in the program.

KIS7 filters Internet access at the network level, so it's browser-independent. A child won't have access to sites categorized as Porn, Drugs, Violence, Explicit language, Weapons, or Gambling. You can optionally limit access to chat sites and Web-based e-mail as well. The filter relies both on a database of known URLs and on real-time examination of Web page content. Blocked pages are replaced by a stark message stating "The requested URL . . . is forbidden." Additionally, each attempt is logged, along with all URLs that are not blocked.

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Like most parental-control systems, KIS7 lets you set limits on children's Internet use. You can specify a daily maximum, and you can also define a schedule of times during which the Internet is available. Whereas most products offer a handy visual grid to schedule Internet access on a weekly basis, KIS7 makes you enter each time interval manually and uses the same schedule for every day of the week. If the time limit expires or the scheduled "on" time ends, there's no warning. Internet access just cuts off, and any further connection attempts get the exact same warning that's displayed when the child tries to access a forbidden site. That's confusing; overall, the Parental Control UI needs a lot more work, in my opinion.

Concerned about privacy? Here's a worry. When Parental Control is turned on, every URL visited by every user, regardless of that user's profile, is logged. You can't suppress logging for specific users or profiles, and you can't delete individual log items without clearing the entire log. If you value your online privacy, you'll want to clear it frequently or leave the Parental Control option turned off.

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KIS7 spam filtering and parental control are no great shakes. On the other hand, the suite has real power in the areas most essential for security—firewall, antivirus, and antispyware. But you won't get full protection using the default settings; you absolutely must raise the protection level in a dozen-odd areas. So although KIS7 is a capable suite, it's not yet a particularly convenient one.

I don't mind tweaking the settings; I get paid to dig into the guts of apps like this. But people who pay for security suites may be less willing to roll up their sleeves to configure it. Still, it's a decent suite, and it wouldn't take much for Kaspersky to fix the configuration problem. I'll be interested to see how the next version stacks up if Kaspersky takes my recommendations to heart—and once it's had more time to tweak the brand-new parental-control module.

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PC Tools Spyware Doctor 2007

PC Tools Spyware Doctor 2007

from: reviews.cnet.com

The good: Spyware Doctor's interface is intuitive and easy to use.

The bad: Spyware Doctor 5 suffers from software glitches; failed to identify or remove a test Trojan horse; returned a high number of false positive or extremely low-risk results; doesn't include telephone support.

The bottom line: Until this recent release, Spyware Doctor was one of the better antispyware choices. Nettlesome glitches and a low rate of spyware removal, however, keep us from recommending Spyware Doctor 5 for now

PCTools Spyware Doctor is one of the last independent antispyware apps on the market, and, until this recent release, was one of the better choices. Version 5 introduces new under-the-hood protection--and a number of nettlesome software glitches. In testing done by CNET Labs, Spyware Doctor did shield us from and identify already installed spyware in six out of eight test cases, but it failed to remove the load points for more than half the spyware samples within our test group.Last year, we liked Spyware Doctor 3.2, praising its "sleek and easy-to-use interface" and noting that it "packs a lot of protection under the hood and is backed up by one of the most aggressive spyware identification programs in the business." What a difference a year makes. PC Tools appears to be heading somewhere significant with the changes introduced in Spyware Doctor 5; it's just not there yet.

Setup
From the start, we found the Spyware Doctor download process to be confusing. The Start Spyware Scan Now button on the PCTools site is the button to start the file download, but that could be made more clear. Once downloaded, Spyware Doctors launches an installation wizard that walks you through the process. We like that the Spyware Doctor Smart Update is automatic, and this is accomplished before first use. But the download files themselves are a la carte, with the option not to download and install any one piece, and you have to hit Next to continue the process. Dial-up users may be tempted to download only a few of the recommended updates, which would be a mistake.

Note: The free trial copy of Spyware Doctor will not remove any spyware found until you purchase the full product. You can also download the free Spyware Doctor Starter Edition via Google Pack, however you'll also be downloading a fair number of other apps that you may or may not want.

Should you want to remove Spyware Doctor 5, there's a handy uninstall icon provided in the All Programs list. After uninstall, however, we found several traces of Spyware Doctor still in the system registry. This surprised us, since most of the antispyware apps we tested had totally clean uninstalls.

Interface
In general, we found Spyware Doctor 5 to be buggy. On different machines, the Spyware Doctor 5 sometimes crashed upon launch, or froze while finalizing a scan; in a few cases, we had to use the Windows Task Manager to kill the executable and start over. Once running, the Spyware Doctor's interface is intuitive and easy to use.

All of its features are clearly labeled and accessible. In addition to the expected spyware scanning, there's a host of system immunization and real-time monitoring features available in the OnGuard section. Spyware Doctor includes a powerful scheduler that allows you to automate full system scans, quick scans, and even live program updates.

But for every action--if we initiated a scan, or wanted to enable a feature, for instance--we noticed several personal firewall alerts; Spyware Doctor appears to call home for every detail. Even so, after a full system scan, our attempt to learn more about an item that Spyware Doctor had labeled as a high-risk cookie went unsatisfied.

The link for "more information" opened our default browser and took us to a PC Tools page, but it was a page that talked generally about phishing threats and not specifically about what Spyware Doctor found on our machine.
FeaturesOther than antispyware protection, Spyware Doctor 5 doesn't offer a lot of additional features; the improvements, we're told, are internal.

The enhanced antirootkit protection within Spyware Doctor 5 is disabled by default. There's a warning on the configuration screen that enabling this feature requires vigilance, as the PCTools antirootkit heuristic findings may include false positives.

Real-time protection can be enabled or disabled, a curious distinction. One might disable real-time protection, for example, to lessen the impact on system resources, relying upon a thorough scan of the system to root out any spyware that had recently installed.

But we found during various scans that Spyware Doctor never consumed more than 20 percent of our system resources.

PerformanceOverall, Spyware Doctor earned a slightly below average rating among the 10 antispyware apps we tested.

Spyware Doctor 5.0 did find more cookies than any other product we tested, although in a number of cases we were unable to confirm the severity of the specific cookies on independent antispyware sites, leaving us to wonder whether these suspicious cookies were truly dangerous.

In exclusive testing by CNET Labs, Spyware Doctor's active shields identified and blocked six out of eight spyware samples we attempted to install, missing only Compare-prices.zip and Marketscore. When scanning and removing existing spyware samples, Spyware Doctor also caught six out of eight, missing Compare-prices.zip and Clickpix.

But when it comes to spyware removal, in a majority of the cases-- five out of eight--Spyware Doctor didn't completely remove the registry load-point entries even on spyware it identified, lowering the product's overall score. In our tests, Spyware Doctor left traces of Compare-Prices.zip, ClickPix, JustFindIt toolbar, MarketScore, NewDotNet/eZula.

Support
Upon installation, PcTools offers Spyware Doctor users a Quick Start guide, a general one-page guide to the program's basic features. Online, we found the Spyware Doctor FAQ to be adequate. After viewing the FAQ, you can answer whether the questions and answers were helpful. Saying "No" moves you to an e-mail feedback page. PCTools offers 24-7 telephone technical support at 1-800-764-5783.

Conclusion
Within a year, Spyware Doctor went from version 3 to version 5, and along the way it appears to have encountered many problems, including some software glitches. We assume the software will be fixed soon enough, and we look forward to seeing future enhancements of this Spyware Doctor--including antivirus protection--in next year's review.

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PCSecurityShield MyRegistryCleaner

PCSecurityShield MyRegistryCleaner

Is your computer speed crawling at a snail’s pace? Are you frustrated every time you have to reboot your PC? You are not alone. Most people don’t know that these frustrating issues can actually be fixed with the click of a button. It’s really that easy! PCSecurityShield MyRegistryCleaner brings your computer back to life by removing the items that can cause crashes, slow speeds, freezing, and impact the overall health of your computer. A perfect tool for novice users and experts alike, PCSecurityShield MyRegistryCleaner will improve your computer’s speed and reliability.

Features and benefits:

Breathes life into your computer.
PCSecurityShield MyRegistryCleaner will walk you through four easy steps to clean your PC, optimize your settings, and keep it running smoothly. And if you are an advanced user, PCSecurityShield MyRegistryCleaner has custom options for you, too.

Speeds up your computer.
Now you don’t have to worry about your computer freezing! Forget about rebooting your PC to get it running smoothly again. PCSecurityShield MyRegistryCleaner will have your computer running smoothly with just the click of your mouse.

Makes a quick backup of your system.
For your protection and convenience, PCSecurityShield MyRegistryCleaner will do a complete backup of your files and provide a restore point to undo any changes.

Scans your computer for errors and bad files.
The scan provides a list of errors with brief descriptions and recommended fixes. All you have to do is accept the recommended updates. Plus, PCSecurityShield MyRegistryCleaner gives you scanning options: do a quick scan of your main files or a smart scan of all your drives.

Clears the clutter to increase space on your hard drive.
Over time, your PC becomes bogged down with unnecessary files that can slow your computer. PCSecurityShield MyRegistryCleaner safely removes these files from your computer.

Conserves valuable resources.
PCSecurityShield MyRegistryCleaner is small as possible - only 3MB! Because of its compact size, PCSecurityShield MyRegistryCleaner takes up less space on your hard drive than other larger programs that guzzle memory and drain your computer's performance.

PCSecurityShield MyRegistryCleaner is a comprehensive registry repair and optimization tool. Its easy-to-use interface makes it simple for novice users to defrag their computers and the advanced options and settings provide tech-savvy users the control they require in configurations.

System and Registry Backup
Registry Backup may be useful in case you want to save registry information for later use. If you happen to re-install your Windows OS, this tool will help you tune your registry and leave all programs and other vital settings functional. System Backup is useful when you want to perform a rollback to the previous state of your Windows. For example, you may want to create restore points before doing any major changes to your registry. Restore points can then be used to reproduce the previous state of your Windows OS.

Quick and Smart Scan
The Smart Scan does a full scan of all of your registry files and your hard drives to locate any possible issues. Use the Quick Scan to conduct a scan of your registry files and system folders.

Automatic and Manual Repair
You can choose to fix all of the problems detected or select individual errors for repair. PCSecurityShield MyRegistryCleaner will repair invalid application paths, uninstall information, COM/ActiveX objects, help files, file extensions, font files, most recently used files list, shared DLLs and folders, startup applications, Windows/MS-DOS shortcuts, and more. The automatic repair function enables any person, regardless of their technical level, to solve registry problems by simply pressing a button. Advanced users can opt to make registry changes manually.

Complete Registry Defrag
When a registry entry is removed it’s marked as being empty but is never actually removed. Registry defrag simply removes these blank entries, which makes the registry hive smaller so it will take up less memory. With a fragmented registry your system will take longer to boot, and programs will take longer to start up. The built-in scheduler enables easy scheduling of automated defrags.

Optimize Your PC
Cleans Windows add/remove software list, manages startup programs, checks for obsolete start menu items, scans for invalid program shortcuts, uninstall information, and most recently used files.

ActiveX Protection
ActiveX applications are able to view, modify, and delete any file on your computer. These applications are usually installed through your Web browser and there is no easy way to remove them. By inserting specific wordvalues within your registry called "Compatibility Flags" PCSecurityShield MyRegistryCleaner blocks any harmful ActiveX programs from installing onto your computer.

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Rising Antivirus International Pty Ltd

RISING Antivirus

RISING Antivirus protects your computers against all types of viruses, Trojans, worms, rootkits and other malicious programs. Ease of use and Smartupdate technology make RISING Antivirus install-and-forget product that lets you focus on what you really want to do.

Key Features :Smart Virtual Machine with Behaviour & Packing Pattern Recognition

RISING Antivirus comes with an integrated smart virtual machine, which is used for virus scanning and malware recognition. RISING's proprietary smart virtual machine technology provides the additional safety for your computer without slowing down your system.

Suspected code and program can be run in this virtual machine for RISING Antivirus to check for potential malicious behaviour. RISING's Behaviour & Packing Pattern Recognition allows to test such potential malware thoroughly without influencing the performance of your PC and protects your system against new viruses and unknown viruses.

Startup Scan

Protect your personal computer before the Windows login. RISING Antivirus can conduct a full virus scan before the startup of your operational system is complete and provides an additional layer of protection against certain malware which is hard to eradicate from within Windows.

8th Generation Antivirus Scan Engine with Smart Speedup

After each virus scan, RISING Antivirus 'remembers' clean files on an internal white list. This memory function has strong built-in safety features. The key characteristics of previously scanned clean files are constantly monitored. As soon as these characteristics change, files are again subject to a full scan. With every update of virus definitions, all files on the Smart Speedup White list are rescanned for viruses.

Patented Scanning Technology for Unknown Viruses

Rising's scanning technology for unknown viruses is protected by patents in the United States of America and Europe. This technology protects your personal computer before new virus definitions are available.

Integrated Multiple AutoProtection Features

AutoProtection provides you real-time, auto protection for your computers.

Low Resource Consumption

Rising Antivirus 2007 consumes minimal resource of your computer.

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Rising Antivirus is available in Traditional Chinese, English . English version can be applied in Windows of all languages. More languages will be supported in the near future.

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Stopzilla blocks pop-ups and adware quickly and intelligently.

Stopzilla! blocks pop-ups and adware quickly and intelligently.

As pop-ups and adware programs find new ways to hijack your computer, it's become increasingly difficult to find one tool that does everything. Some do an adequate job blocking traditional ads that open in a new window, but leave you twisting in the wind when it comes to nasty spyware programs that monopolize the real estate on your desktop from deep within the Windows registry.

Stopzilla! is a one-stop answer to hostile ad software that we first introduced you to last June. Unlike other popular ad-removal programs, such as SpyBot or Lavasoft's Ad-Aware, which seek and destroy malicious programs lurking in your computer, Stopzilla actively squashes pop-ups and other sneaky forms of advertising before they can materialize. It also prohibits known advertising agents from taking root in your computer, making Web browsing slightly less hazardous.

Two things make Stopzilla! unique. While free pop-up killers like the Google Toolbar or the built-in blocking features of Mozilla catch most ads, Stopzilla! neutralizes nearly all of them. It also distinguishes between an ad window and user-generated pop-ups, so you don't have to keep switching the software on and off to see Instant Message and information windows.

After a simple installation, setup is easy and straightforward. By right-clicking a system tray icon, you can maintain your Black List, clear all cookies, and empty your history. The one drawback is that Stopzilla! works only in Internet Explorer; while the company has announced plans to introduce wider compatibility in the next major release, Mozilla and Firefox users are out of luck for now.

If you curse adware and don't mind shedding some cash to end the pop-up plague, Stopzilla! is a great choice. It's a top-shelf program that delivers where freeware programs fall short.

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Symantec Norton Ghost 14.0 automatically backs up everything on your computer.

Norton Ghost 14.0

Save the stuff you care about with the new Norton Ghost 14.0. From photos and music to tax documents, Norton Ghost 14.0 automatically backs up everything on your computer. With its new task-driven interface, backups are quick and efficient. So is initial setup. When you load Norton Ghost 14.0, it analyzes your system for the best way to store your backups, automatically sets up a backup schedule, and begins backing up right away. Reliable, efficient, and versatile, Norton Ghost 14.0 optimizes backup space, works with a wide range of media devices, and brings back your entire system in a few short steps.

Key Technologies

Creates full system and file backups

Restores from system failures

Saves recovery points to offsite locations

Symantec ThreatCon integration

Features

Full system backup (disk image)—Backs up everything on a hard drive or partition.

File and folder backup—Backs up only the specific files and folders you choose rather than saving an entire drive.

FTP backup—Copies recovery points to a FTP site for easier offsite backup management. NEW

Offsite backup—backs up your files to NAS (Network-Attached Storage) devices. NEW

Symantec ThreatCon integration— triggers incremental backups whenever ThreatCon reaches a specified threat level. Great for computers without virus protection. NEW

Incremental and differential backup—Backs up only files that have changed.

EXCLUSIVE! Google Desktop™ integration—Makes data recovery even faster with searchable backup indexes.

LightsOut Restore—Restores your system with an on-disk software recovery environment—no bootable CD required.

EXCLUSIVE!: Remote management—Controls other Norton Ghost installations (12.0 or higher) on your local area network.

Advanced compression and encryption—Minimizes storage space and helps keep sensitive documents safe.

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Windows Vista® Home Basic/Home Premium/Business/Ultimate

Must meet minimum Windows Vista operating system requirements

Eligible for a free Windows Vista® Service Pack 1 compatibility update

Windows® XP Home/Professional

300 MHz or faster processor

256 MB (512 MB recommended) of RAM

400 MB of available hard disk space

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NTFS

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USB and FireWire® (IEEE 1394) devices

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Symantec Norton Ghost 14.0 review

Symantec Norton Ghost 14.0

Symantec Corp. has released Symantec Norton Ghost 14.0, its most advanced PC backup and recovery solution for the consumer market.

Symantec Norton Ghost 14.0 backs up and restores a user’s entire PC system, including all of its data – applications, settings, folders and files – and offers exclusive remote backup management, encryption and advanced compression features.

Using Symantec Norton Ghost 14.0, users can quickly recover lost or damaged files and restore from system failures, even if their computer’s operating system does not start.

Symantec Norton Ghost 14.0 leverages Symantec’s ThreatCon global security alerting system to identify threats, trigger automatic incremental backups and protect the user’s system before an external attack can occur.

It also offers protection and enhanced performance with new features, such as offsite backup to an FTP site or Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices, in addition to long-standing features like remote management and LightsOut Restore capability.

With Symantec Norton Ghost 14.0, users can backup an entire system or only specific files and folders. Incremental backups and enhanced compression help reduce the amount of required storage, while the product’s encryption technology helps keep all of the stored data safe and protected. Symantec Norton Ghost 14.0 also integrates with Google Desktop, providing users with access to fully-searchable backup indexes.

“PC users need complete protection from unforeseen threats to system data,” said Rowan Trollope, senior vice president consumer products and solutions, Symantec Corp. “Even if users diligently backup their systems, their PCs remain vulnerable to today’s most prevalent and potentially system-crippling threats. Symantec Norton Ghost 14.0 provides comprehensive protection from data loss by using the most advanced PC backup and recovery tools in the industry.”

Symantec Norton Ghost 14.0 works with most storage drives, including external hard drives, networked drives, and recordable and rewritable CDs and DVDs.

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