Posts Tagged ‘antivirus’

Malware spreads inside Facebook

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 6:31 By NARUTO

The social network Facebook receives more and more applications, but some of them cannot be safe. It was what verified the research chief of safety of softwares from AVG Technologies, Roger Thompson, when he discovered that one of the applications was a false antivirus.
The discovery was made when Thompson noticed that a Russian website, [...]

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Eugene Kaspersky wants to introduce new Internet regulation: Internet passports

Friday, October 16, 2009 22:49 By GSerrano

The CEO of Russia’s Kaspersky Lab, Eugene Kaspersky, says, “I’d like to change the design of the Internet by introducing regulation—Internet passports, Internet police, and international agreement—about following Internet standards.”
One of the big names in Internet security believes that the Internet has a huge problem: anonymity. The security expert thinks that it is now the [...]

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Microsoft will launch free anti-virus software

Friday, June 19, 2009 5:05 By NARUTO

Microsoft plans to launch a beta version of its free antivirus next Tuesday (23). Called Microsoft Security Essentials, the application is made in order to find and remove malicious software that steal passwords and other personal information, or to put the computers into “virtual hubs” for distribution of spam.

The program will provide protection to a [...]

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