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The new Panda Internet Security 2007 offers the most complete protection so you can use the Internet with absolute peace of mind. It prevents data theft (login details, credit card numbers, etc.) and protects you from other Internet threats, such as viruses, spyware, hackers and online fraud. And now, for each Panda Internet Security 2007 product purchase, you will obtain protection for up to 3 PCВ’s!

Also includes:
- Panda Antivirus
- Panda AntiSpyware
- Panda Firewall
- Panda Identity Protect
- Panda AntiSpam
- Panda Parental Control
 
Key features:
Panda Identity Protect: Secures your personal data.  Personal data theft (account and credit card numbers, login details, etc.) is becoming a major threat to your security. With Panda Internet Security 2007, no one can access your data without your permission. Continue Reading »

Full-featured security suite offers top-tier protection, but it’s a space hog.

Symantec’s Norton Internet Security 2006 is a mature product that performs nicely–so nicely that we named it the Best Buy among ten security suites we looked at. On the downside, it can provide too many alerts and take up excess room on your desktop.

The suite offers a lot of features. It comes with antivirus, antispyware, and firewall protection, as well as parental controls, antispam capabilities, privacy functions, and IM protection. The package was easy to install and to configure for our network.

Since the default settings leave a lot of warnings and alerts turned on, the suite communicates with you frequently for the first few days you use it. One talkative feature is the Norton Protection Center, which installs a second taskbar icon in addition to the Norton Internet Security taskbar icon. It lets you know how well protected you are in five basic areas of PC maintenance: Security Basics, Email & Messaging, Web Browsing, Data Recovery, and Performance. In a thinly veiled marketing attempt, however, the Data Recovery category will read ‘No Coverage’ until you buy and use Symantec separate $50 Norton SystemWorks package. (Another irksome issue: Symantecs 24-hour telephone tech support costs $30 per incident.) Continue Reading »

Computer viruses can be classified according to their environment and infection methods. The environment is the application or operating system required by any given virus to infect files within these systems. Infection methods are the techniques used to inject the virus code into an object.

Environment
Most viruses can be found in one of the following environments:

File systems
Boot sectors
Macro environments
Script hosts
File viruses use the file system of a given operating system (or more than one) to propagate. File viruses can be divided into the following categories:

Those that infect executable files (the largest group of file viruses)
Those that create duplicates of files (companion viruses)
Those that create copies of themselves in various directories
Those that utilize file systems features (link viruses)
Boot sector viruses write themselves either to the boot sector or to the master boot record or displace the active boot-sector. These viruses were widespread in the 1990s, but have almost disappeared since the introduction of 32-bit processors as standard and the decline of the floppy disks. It would be technically possible to write boot sector viruses for CDs and USB flash ROMs, but no such viruses have yet been detected.

Many word processing, accounting, editing and project applications have built-in macro scripts which automate frequently used sequences. These macro languages are often complex and include a wide range of commands. Macro viruses are written in macro languages and infect applications with built-in macros. Macro viruses propagate by exploiting macro language properties in order to transfer from an infected file to another file.

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