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AVG 9 Free Version Available

by Ben on 19/10/2009 · Comments

in Anti-Virus, Software

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In a earlier post this month, I covered the release of the commercial version of AVG 9 and I said that the free version is in the works and will be released very soon. AVG now has finally made the free version available for download from their website (Link below).

AVG has made two different installers, a big install file and a web installer. The size of AVG 9 is rather big compared  to some of the antivirus software out in the market. Both version of the installer will set you back around 70 Mb of your monthly downloads.

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Commercial Version of AVG 9 Released, Free Version to Follow

by Ben on 12/10/2009 · Comments

in Anti-Virus, Software

AVG9

Coinciding with Microsoft’s Windows 7 release on the 22nd of October. Like all other big names in the anti-virus business, AVG has already released a new commercial version for Windows 7. The free version of AVG 9 has not yet being put up for download, rumour has it the free version is set to be released on the 15th of October.

I have not yet tried out AVG 9, but after trying out AVG 8 earlier this year I really hope that the dev team has came up with a better piece of software this time that is less memory intensive and doesn’t slow down the computer.

I wont post the changes for now, I’ll save it for my next review. But if you would like to check it out some of the new feature visit the AVG website.

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Microsoft Security Essentials Going Mainstream Later Today

by Ben on 30/09/2009 · Comments

in Anti-Virus, Software, Window Vista, Window XP, Windows, Windows 7

It looks like I have being wrong in my last post about Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) about when the final version is going to get released. Apparently Microsoft is going to release the final version of Security Essentials later today. YES!! 29th  of September 09.

Like I said in my other post

Microsoft Security Essential received many positive wraps and rightly so with the simple UI, low memory/CPU usage and much better detection rate.

You should try it out if you haven’t, Microsoft got it right this time round.

I will post again when MSE does get released later today but most likely it will be from its homepage (http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials).

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Microsoft Security Essentials Set for Final Release

25 September 2009

Microsoft Security Essentials is an upcoming free antivirus developed by Microsoft which replaces both OneCare and Windows Defender. Microsoft is set to release the Security Essentials application on October 22 which to no surprise coincides with Window 7’s release date.
In the past couple months Microsoft conducted a closed beta with limited invites. I was [...]

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Avast 5.0 Beta Released

22 August 2009

 
At last!! The hideous media player UI of Avast has being scraped from latest version the popular antivirus software Avast 5.0.
There are numerous amount of improvements apart from the revamped UI. For example the improved and optimized detection engine which can detect more virus. Another improvement is that compare to previous version Avast 5.0 [...]

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Protect Yourself from Conficker by using OpenDNS

3 April 2009

OpenDNS is a  free service that has being running for the past three years. It provides free secruity and network services that makes the internet safer as well as faster. It does this through integrated web content filtering, and DNS.
On the OpenDNS blog David stated that:
The latest variant of Conficker is now churning through 50,000 [...]

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Scanning for Malicious Softwares

30 March 2009

Howtogeek today has written a indepth post about scanning for malicious viruses on your computer.The article was written well in time of a potentially harmful virus which is set to hit some of the computers out there called “Conficker” on the 1st of April 2009. I’ll be following Conficker in the next few days stay [...]

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