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ESET Smart Security v 4.0.467 released

Posted by Siddanth on October 17th, 2009
One of the best antivirus and security solution ESET Smart Security have updated to a new version i.e 4.0.467.I personally recommend using this software and buy the premium version as it protects your pc from malwares and spywares.I have been a fan of Nod32 from a long time.ESET Smart Security 4 represents a complex security solution for computers, which was improved and optimized to provide superior performance and small footprint simultaneously. ESET Smart Security 4 is created by a symbiosis of previously known and newly added features. These advanced technologies in combination with ESET´s famous Proactive Protection ensure comprehensive protection against viruses, trojans, worms, adware, spyware, phishing, rootkits.
eset ESET Smart Security v 4.0.467 released
One of the best antivirus and security solution ESET Smart Security have updated to a new version i.e 4.0.467.I personally recommend using this software and buy the premium version as it protects your pc from malwares and spywares.I have been a fan of Nod32 from a long time.ESET Smart Security 4 represents a complex security solution for computers, which was improved and optimized to provide superior performance and small footprint simultaneously. ESET Smart Security 4 is created by a symbiosis of previously known and newly added features. These advanced technologies in combination with ESET´s famous Proactive Protection ensure comprehensive protection against viruses, trojans, worms, adware, spyware, phishing, rootkits.
The four main modules (Antivirus, Antispyware, Personal Firewall and Anti-Spam) were optimized to provide even better integrated protection by maintaining a high level of performance and speed simultaneously.
Included is also ESET´s famous Advanced Heuristics to protect from unknown threats and generic signatures for reliable detection of mutations of known viruses. ThreatSense® and ThreatSense®.NET technology minimize the vulnerability window after the virus outbreak and make the smart detection concept of ESET complete.
What’s changed in the new version
•Fixed: External driver injection in ESET SysRescue on Microsoft Windows 7 RC fails when this option is selected in the advanced mode of ESET SysRescue wizard
• Fixed: Error sending a file via “Send to” in the right-click menu. The problem only occurs in combination of Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Outlook 2003 when the Microsoft Outlook process is not running.
• Fixed: Mozilla Thunderbird with IMAP account freezes when a virus-laden message is received
• Improved: Compatibility with server operating systems
• Improved: HTTP scanning compatibility
Now ESET comes in a variety of languages like English (ENU),Slovak (SKY),Czech (CSY),Polish (PLK),Russian (RUS), Spanish (ESN),French (FRA),Chinese Simplified (CHS),Chinese Traditional (CHT),Dutch (NLD),German (DEU),French Canadian (FRC),Hungarian (HUN),Portuguese Brazilian (PTB),Slovenian (SLV),Turkish (TRK),Bulgarian (BGR),Danish (DAN)  Finnish (FIN),Norwegian (NOR),Romanian (ROM) and Swedish (SVE).This is definetely one of the best for Windows security.Go Download now.
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Download Microsoft Security Essentials Final

Posted by Siddanth on October 1st, 2009

I had posted about Microsoft Security Essentials which would be released on September 29th and now the final version is  out for download.If you have never tried how this anti malware solution from Microsoft is, give it a try i bet you will like this.

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It was also rated one of the best free ware apps for security.It comes with a basic antivirus and antispyware protection and will include lifetime upgrades and updates from Microsoft, however it does not have advanced features like web scanning , phishing protection ,instant messaging protection ,firewall etc.So this is a not a complete alternative to best paid antivirus solutions like Nod32 or Kaspersky.But as long its free why not try and give your views on it. I am using this on my Windows 7.

Download Microsoft Security Essentials Final Version

Just go to the download page and select your OS and the download starts.For simplicity i have also given links for direct download for Xp, Vista as well as Windows 7.

Direct download of Microsoft Security Essentials for Windows XP

Direct download of Microsoft Security Essentials for Vista/Windows 7

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Final Version of Microsoft Security Essentials shipping tommorow -September 29th

Posted by Siddanth on September 29th, 2009

I had posted about the one care antimalware product from Microsoft i.e Microsoft Security Essentials previously termed as Morro and there was news that the final version would be released soon.Now the time has come and Microsoft is set to deliver the final bits to the public.This came into light by the tweet from Network World Editor John Fontana.

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Mary Jo foley(http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4091) confirmed with Microsoft confirming MSE will ship on September 29.From a spokesperson: “I can confirm that Microsoft Security Essentials, the company’s highly anticipated no cost consumer security offering, will be released to the public tomorrow, September 29th.” It will be available in 19 markets worldwide, according to the company.

Mary Jo foley confirmed with Microsoft confirming MSE will ship on September 29.From a spokesperson: “I can confirm that Microsoft Security Essentials, the company’s highly anticipated no cost consumer security offering, will be released to the public tomorrow, September 29th.” It will be available in 19 markets worldwide, according to the company.

Microsoft is targeting MSE at customers who are unwilling and unable to pay for security software. Company officials have said they believed it was worth offering customers a free product to help thwart security breaches on unprotected Windows PCs that potentially could be used to infect other users’ systems.

On September 29, Microsoft also is holding a Webcast where CEO Steve Ballmer is planning to detail how Microsoft customers can, with less, do more. It’s part of the company’s “New Efficiency” enterprise-focused campaign and is slated to touch on a host of soon-to-be-shipping Microsoft products, including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Exchange 2010, Forefront, System Center and the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack.

Microsoft Security Essentials, independently certified by West Coast Labs, is backed by the company’s global security response team and is built on the same award-winning core security technology found in the company’s security solutions for businesses. It requires no registration, trials or renewals and will be available for Windows XP SP2 or SP3, Windows Vista and Windows 7 including Windows XP mode on both x32 and x64 PCs.

Microsoft Security Essentials will be available in eight languages and 19 countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

More information about Microsoft Security Essentials and the product download is available at http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials.

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Microsoft Security Essentials Final Coming Soon

Posted by Siddanth on September 24th, 2009

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I had blogged about Microsoft Security Essentials Beta and how to get it the next version for it, now the Final version of Microsoft Security Essentials(MSE) would be released pretty soon as per the quote which was sent to the Beta testers of the free one care anti-malware from Microsoft.This is what they had to say,

The final version of Microsoft Security Essentials will be released to the public in the coming weeks.” In the meantime, feel free to give the beta a try, and potentially helping to improve the product.

MSE is going strong and as more and more testers get involved the better for Redmond to stabilize and improve MSE. MSE already has a strong base, with 400,000 testers during the beta release.I am using it on my Windows 7 RTM and i say i am loving it totally.

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Remove infected Autorun.inf from USB Drives

Posted by Siddanth on September 9th, 2009

In this Geek world, every one uses thumb drives or flash drives for some purpose or the other, either to copy some data or to transfer files with your friend’s hard disk or something of that sort.Now if you transfer files from the net then you are in the risk of getting viruses and spy wares and most common virus which infects pen drives is the Autorun.inf virus.This happens when you double click your drive and the  virus gets loaded into your pc.What you do is you scan your drive with a anti virus solution and try to heal the virus,but what you find it doesn’t clean and your pc is still infected.

One solution to this is a  App name “Autorun Eater” .This is a tool to remove suspicious Autorun.inf file in the root of your flash drive.It can fix disabled Registry or Folder options or Task Manager too.

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You can download Autorun Eater from here.Give me you feedbacks if you like this app or have a alternative app for this.

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Microsoft Security Essentials scores on top rankings.

Posted by Siddanth on July 7th, 2009

There has been quite a buzz when the Microsoft Security Essentials was launched few days back and was made to be available to only the first 75000 people at the start.Buzz is going good for Microsoft’s one in all anti-virus and anti spyware solution.Why do i say that ? Coz Independent testing firm AV-Test GmbH ran Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7, putting it up against nearly 3,200 common viruses, bot Trojans and worms.Results were tabulated and it scored top on the list.

Andreas Marx one of the managers said

All files were properly detected and treated by the product.That’s good, as several other antivirus scanners are still not able to detect and kill all of these critters yet.None of the clean files were flagged as being malicious.

The scanner works with the locally-installed anti-virus and anti-spyware databases and it doesn’t appear to use ‘in-the-cloud scanning’ methods.AV-Test also examined Security Essential’s anti-root kit skills and its ability to scrub a system of malware it finds with a limited number of samples and found no reasons to complain.

AV-Test also measured Microsoft Security Essentials against a set of in-house false positives to see whether the software mistakenly fingers legitimate files and it had a positive result there too.Security Essentials aka Morro is able to remove found malware very well, but further tests against larger sets of samples are required before they can come to a final conclusion.

Another noted antivirus testing lab, AV-Comparabives.org, said it would formally test Security Essentials in August, and release its results the next month.You can read the review of Morro here.Now there will be some competition between the antivirus giants.Lets see what they come up with.:roll:

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