Tag: AV

Panda's Cloud Antivirus created quite a stir when it was first introduced last year. It's a solid antivirus app with a small footprint, and it's free for home users and educational institutions. So far, Panda has tallied more than 10 million downloads of Cloud AV. Originally, Panda's main benefit from offering Cloud AV for free was added horsepower for Collective Intelligence -- the name they ...

Ask most computer techs or power users which virus programs you should avoid, and the big two retail boxed options -- Norton and McAfee -- will usually be the first two words out of their mouths. In the enterprise, however, the situation is very different. Symantec and McAfee still have pretty strong reputations and a loyal customer base. In McAfee's case, however, that reputation took a ...

You may not have heard much about it (if at all), but Immunet Protect's free antivirus for Windows continues to steadily attract new users. On Novermber 19th, their install base was around 20,000 users. Today, that number has reached more than 31,000 and it keeps on growing. Founded by former Symantec research exec Oliver Friedrichs, Immunet has been available as a beta download since August ...

I'm a fan of just about anything which helps make the web a little safer for my friends, family, and customers. So I was excited to read that Twitter's favorite link shortening service, bit.ly, is working to check every URL they process for malicious code. With about 40,000,000 links in their database and a firmly-established position as the top short link provider on Twitter, this is great ...

Panda Cloud Antivirus is one of the more talked about releases of 2009. Its new spin on the traditional antivirus model -- like many new programs which embrace cloud computing -- has been met with both praise and criticism. Panda themselves are bullish on Cloud AV, and I was fortunate enough to speak about it with CEO Juan Santana and Senior Research Advisor Pedro Bustamante. To Santana and ...

Sunbelt's Vipre might not be as well known as Norton or McAfee, but it's definitely a solid choice in desktop malware and virus protection. Now, thanks to the fine people at HSN who also bring you products like Tony Little fitness gear and Carol Alt's line of cosmetics you can score Vipre's protection until you're stone dead for a mere $99.90. Plus $6.95 shipping and handling, of course. For ...