McAfee Antivirus may as well include a coupon for a discount off the purchase of a kitchen sink with its SiteAdvisor Plus product, scheduled to go on sale November 7th. They have added so many features to the for-pay version of the free online SiteAdvisor service that the sink could be the only omission.

The company touted SiteAdvisor Plus as the first tool that will actively shield PCs from malicious websites, whether a person tries to access them through web browsing, searches, email, or instant messaging. They also claim advanced phishing protection will protect users from those scams.

The free service currently handles some 250 million requests each day to determine if a given website is safe, dangerous, or merits caution when visiting. SiteAdvisor Plus will go beyond the online version’s capacity for checking URLs, or the free download that checks search engine results for possible threats.

McAfee’s Shane Keats posted about some of the new Plus features at the SiteAdvisor blog. One feature, Protected Mode, redirects a PC to a safe page whenever the user may be heading for something deemed unsafe by SiteAdvisor.

Out of the box, SiteAdvisor Plus supports IM clients from Yahoo, Windows Live, and Google Talk. AIM support is currently in development, a strange option to be missing from the product at launch considering AIM sizable 22 million userbase.

Keats wrote that “link checking support for AIM is a top short-term priority.” Issues with integrating SiteAdvisor Plus with AIM meant either delaying the launch or sending it out with AIM support to be added later.

Likewise, SiteAdvisor Plus only supports the Internet Explorer browser. Keats noted adding support for the Firefox browser would also be a top priority along with AIM link checking.

McAfee will price a single PC license at $24.99 and a three-computer household pack for $49.99.

Best free antivirus to be discontinued? Users currently using AVG Anti Virus Free 7.1 are reporting that their antivirus is sending them to a Grisoft page which states:

STAY PROTECTED: Your AVG Anti-Virus Free 7.1 will be discontinued on 15. January 2007!

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Security software maker Norton Antivirus rolled out its latest package of antivirus applications for Windows-based mobile devices. Dubbed Mobile AntiVirus 4.0 for Windows Mobile, the product promises to help protect data stored on smartphones running the Microsoft operating system, including offering the ability to wipe out data present on lost or stolen devices.

Just think.. these guys and McAfee want access to the kernel in x64 Windows so that they can ‘protect’ us…. We received a report that Symantec Antivirus (Norton Antivirus 2006) was detecting a virus on sfc.dll, which is a component of Windows File Protection. At first, we were a little worried that a trojan was disabling the protection features, which would be a bad thing. However, it looks like this was a false positive and new signatures released today seems to have fixed the problem. This was occuring on Windows 2000 SP4 machines without the Security Rollup applied.

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Antivirus software provider McAfee Antivirus Inc. said in a statement late Thursday it is “greatly disappointed by the lack of action” on Microsoft Corp.’s part to provide information needed to develop security software for the new Vista operating system.
On Monday, Microsoft said it has given McAfee and Symantec Corp., another security vendor, some of the information they want to make their products work with Vista.

A Microsoft spokesman said the software interfaces for the Windows Security Center were uploaded to a Web site for software developers.

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eEye Digital Security Inc will move into closer competition with larger rivals including Check Point, Symantec and McAfee with forthcoming versions of its Blink endpoint security software.

The company will add antivirus to Blink, which started life as a host intrusion prevention system, and is planning to launch a free version of the software, albeit without the antivirus, which is being licensed from Norman AS.

eEye’s new chief executive Ross Brown told us the company’s strategy is to work as much host security functionality into Blink as it can, while at the same time not resorting to a “nickel and diming customers” pricing strategy of charging for each layer of functionality.

There are so many different types of host security product - antivirus,antispyware, firewall, application control, intrusion prevention, network access control, etc - that many believe they will all inevitably coalesce into a single deployable agent in most vendors’ cases.

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Panda Antivirus 2007 detects and completely removes spyware and other annoying programs automatically.

The product is automatically updated, at least once a day, to protect you against viruses, spyware and other threats.

The Internet is teeming with spy programs that can invade your privacy and steal information by secretly snooping on your online activity. Spyware can also slow down your PC and change your computer settings.

Panda Antivirus 2007 includes, for one year and at no extra cost, 24-hour tech support via email and the Internet, 24-hour SOS service against new viruses and daily updates.

The new Panda Antivirus 2007 makes protecting your computer as easy as possible, because it automatically blocks and removes all types of viruses and spyware so you can surf the Internet.

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* Blocks hackers and intruders, even through Wi-Fi connections
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Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2007 gives you access to TrendSecure, an online suite of security tools:

* Transaction Guard protects your online transactions (public wireless hotspots….)
* Remote File Lock safeguards your private files in case your laptop is lost or stolen.
* Trend Micro Mobile Security protects your cell phone against viruses and other threats.

Its new advanced features go far beyond standard antivirus and firewall protection, helping to safeguard your PC from new emerging threats like network viruses, spam email…

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Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security provides comprehensive and easy to use protection from viruses, intruders, and other Internet-based threats.

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CyberScrub Antivirus Lifetime Edition - CyberScrub AntiVirus continuously checks for viruses in all opened, saved, and executed files, including archived and compressed files. Should an infected object be detected, the application will clean the infected location.

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Mobile phone viruses can cross over to attack computers, say computer security experts. Worms and Trojans can jump over to the computer during data synchronization, warns online portal xonio.com as reported by DPA.

Mobile phone owners should therefore be careful when downloading new applications and files onto their phones, particularly when they come from an unknown source.

As yet there are no cell phone viruses that can install themselves. Users must always agree to the installation.

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Antivirus Rating - rating of the most safety antivirus program of the week. We will try to publish this list every week, because it’s really useful for our users. If antivirus software to be on high positions in our Antivirus Rating it means is reliable enough also you can use its houses or in office.
Antivirus Rating this week:
1 - Norton Antivirus
2 - Kaspersky Antivirus
3 - McAfee Antivirus
4 - eZ Antivirus
5 - AVG Antivirus
6 - Panda Antivirus