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BitDefender Safego: BitDefender, few days back, launched Beta version of Safego application that protects its users beyond just the personal security to alert users personal information, safeguard content, safeguard from e-threats etc. This Beta launch of safego helps users experience safe social networking.
Using a simple interface, the safego checks if the user's personal information is visible to intruders or strangers. Added to this, it also scans for malicious links or content in the user's wall, emails, chat content, image sharing or videos.
Catalin Cosoi, BitDefender Online Threats Head, stated “It’s clear that a large number of people don’t understand how much personal information they’re sharing with the world. The BitDefender safego app makes it easy to identify what’s shared and make the necessary changes,Additionally, we’ve seen an increasing number of attacks targeted at the 500 million users of Facebook. Using our superior malware detection, the BitDefender safego app helps protect users from malicious links and other threats that spread through messages, wall posts and videos.”
The BitDefender safego app helps users get
- 24/7 Protection: No matter if the users are logged in or not, the BitDefender safego protects Facebook accounts 24/7.
- Privacy Protection: Users get warning messages to update their Facebook privacy setting so their information remains secured
- Protection for Friends: Users can even warn their friends about the malicious links in Facebook accounts
- Automatic Scanning: Clicking on "scan now" button lets users to view the snapshot of their Facebook security status.
Semantec: Norton 360 Version 5.0 Beta
Symantec Corp. recently announced the beta of Norton 360 version 5.0. This is now available to public for download. This is an all-in-one award winning premium security suite. The powerful security protection featured in Norton Internet Security 2011 was also incorporated into Norton 360 Beta. Apart from this, it has the Norton 'reputation based security' latest generation. In Dennis Labs third party test, it was awarded top in real world threat detection and exceptionally scored 100%, the only vendor with such score! 
- Download Insight: Helps to detect malware before downloading the product into the system.
- SONAR 3: Provides zero-day protection from everyday intruders designed to pass up other security features.
- Identity Protection: secures users private information from strangers.
- Automatic Backup: Automatically backups system files for security purposes.
- PC Tuneup: Tunes up your PC periodically to keep it up-to-date.
All these feature make Norton 360 version 5 a complete package and set and forget it package.
McAfee ePO 4.6 Beta 3
McAfee is proud to announce the new ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 4.6 Beta 3 with new features of increased scalability and manageability.
Deployment, Management and reporting are enabled in this new version of ePolicy Orchestrator. This is McAfee's centralized management console. With this console, companies can significantly gain control over the cost of managing security while adding up their enterprise's security status visible across their infrastructure.
Avast! Version 5.1
Avast will soon be releasing its new Avast! Version 5.1. This release includes the consumer editions and the business editions were planned to be released yet later when they are ready.
The consumer editions of Avast are
- Avast! Free Anti-virus
- Avast! Pro Anti-virus
- Avast! Internet Security
Before the official release, you can find the product for download and testing. You can find the links in here for download:
Pro AV: http://files.avast.com/files/beta/5.1.807/setup_av_pro.exe
IS: http://files.avast.com/files/beta/5.1.807/setup_ais.exe
Though this Avast! Version 5.1.798/803 is a progress and has some add on compared to the previous versions, it still misses some of the behavior shield changes that will be added up in the next few days.
How to install it
Just run the setup executable (links above). You can either install it from scratch, or on top of an existing avast installation (installing over both 5.0.xxx or 4.8.yyy should be fine). A reboot will be required to complete the installation.
If you already have installed its previous version, you an simply download this new version by going into the Avast! UI and checking for updates.
The new features include:
- Boot-time scanner for 64-bit OSes
- Behavior Shield improvements – now with more sensors and able to detect exact offenders
- Improved cleaning of infected computers
- Improved anti-root kit engine – now capable of dealing with the latest TDL variants, for example Web Shield improvements (both stability and performance related)
- Mail and Web Shields not hosted in separate NT services anymore, resulting in much faster starts
- IS: new version of anti-spam engine
- Sound packs
In the networked world, prevention and law enforcement may both prove to be insufficient in protecting the information from intruders;
Ultimately, we need an advanced move in dealing with the security issues that is making the intrusion possible even with all the tight security softwares around the PC.
However, the PC security companies should take advanced care in resolving these security issues successfully making it an "IMPOSSIBLE" task for all the intruders from unauthenticated access.
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