• Improved Engine for Smart Scan, Full Scan and Custom Scan

Adopted with IObit’s unique “Dual-Core” engine and improved program core structure, IObit Malware Fighter is now available for delivering more comprehensive and deeper system scan to find the deepest infections, and finally remove or quarantine them, protecting your PC from more security threats and privacy compromises.

• Brand new & easy-to-use interface

An intuitive and neat design was successfully brought to IObit Malware Fighter that provides you with four major entrances in the main interface, which lead you to the four major functions as following, “Overview”, “Scan”, “Protect” and “Cloud”. This brand new interface gives you an open-and-shut view with all the details.

• Enhanced real-time protection

IObit Malware Fighter provides you with ultimate anti-malware and real-time protection, including “Startup Guard”, “Browser Guard”, “Network Guard”, “File Guard”, “Cookie Guard”, “Process Guard”, “USD Disk Guard” and “Malicious Action Guard”, which keeps your computer stay secure all the time.

• Creative Cloud Computing Technology

IObit Cloud uses the latest Cloud Computing technology and Heuristic Analyzing mechanic to analyze the behavior of spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, bots, worms, Hijack Scan & Remove is free, and real-time protection is free too.

Real-Time Protection

Real-time protection scans your files the instant they are loaded into memory. This is also referred to as “on-access” scanning and happens “invisibly” at the same time you’re using the computer — whether you’re surfing the web, or editing a document, for example.

The advantage to this method is that it can prevent infections before they occur. The downside is that this type of protection comes at a cost: it is activated each and every time a file is loaded into memory, which can slow your computer down to a crawl (depending on security application and the level of protection offered).

In the paragraph below we’ll explain the main feature and benefit of IObit Security 360 (some features only available in the Security 360 PRO version).

• IObit Security 360 has built-in complete PC Security softwares, including anti-malware, anti-spyware, anti-trojan, anti-adware, anti-bots, and more. The Security 360 can also assist your default antivirus software to defend any tricky and complex threats.
• IObit Security 360 has a feature called DOG (Digital Original Gene), a novel heuristic malware detection method. By using the DOG features Security 360 can find the most complex threats and the deepest infections.
• With the unique “Dual-Core” anti-malware engine, the complicated analysis can be made faster. It’s makes IObit Security 360 very fast and light.
• IObit Security 360 work with all Antivirus softwares. Surely it will be the best mate for your current antivirus.
• Very Easy to Use with 1-click Solution.
• This powerful utility works continuously, automatically and quietly in the background on your PC. You can set it as your schedule or just let it work automatically when your computer is idle.
• Automatic and Frequent Updates.
• FREE, Award-winning Customer Support for All Users
• Free 24/7 technical support and community support.
• 100% Money-Back Guarantee. When you purchase Security 360 PRO, your satisfaction is guaranteed. Within 30 days, you can request your money back if the software doesn’t do all that promised.
• Support various language, English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Serbian, Turkish, Russian, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Czech, ????, and more.

A set of indispensable tools is provided by the software creators :

• Hijack Scan supply the details and manipulate every process running in the computer, can locate the file associated with the process, modules loaded by the process (DLLs);
• Security Holes scan the computer for vulnerabilities especially missing Windows hotfixes;
• Passive Defense it’s kind of “immunisation” of  Internet Explorer, preventing the installation of Active-X based spyware, adware, browser hijackers. Website protection block the malicious known sites, while Cookie Protection blocks the tracking cookies in Internet Explorer. All these protections are based on a database with known malware or malicious sites;
• Privacy Sweeper erase the browsing history, cache files and Internet tracks for all major browsers;
• PC Tuneup send you to another free IObit software, Advanced SystemCare, a one-click maintenance for your PC capable to protect, repair, clean, and optimize your machine.

Verdict:

You can never have too much protection, and the fact this is designed to augment rather than replace the existing security on your PC makes it worthy of consideration.

Below some of its essential features are discussed in detail:

Core Protection

It doesn’t provides protection, it provides the core protection for your PC with AntiVirus, AntiSpyware, AntiMalware, AntiRootkit, Silent Firewall and IDS/IPS at different levels.

• Antivirus – It is a program that scans and remove viruses, worms, trojans and other threats that may creep into your system through removable drives, email attachments or internet downloads.
• AntiSpyware – To secure your identity, Antispyware is used as it detects, cleans and blocks spywares thus automatically preventing identity theft.
• AntiMalware – This security program scans registry, files and folders within fraction of sceonds, detecting and cleaning Spywares, Adwares, Roguewares, Dialers, Riskwares and other potential threats.
• Anti-Rootkit – Rootkits are detected and cleaned proactively by a deep system scan.
• Firewall Protection – Firewall Protection is a program that works secretly in silent in the background and scrutinizes network activity for viruses, spywares and other malilcious agents. To detect harmful network activity it uses Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and to prevent malicious network activity it uses Intrusion Prevention System (IPS).
• Self Protection – In order to prevent and protect Quick Heal files, folders, configurations and registry entries from getting tampered by malicious threats Self Protection is used.
• PC2Mobile Scan - Virus attack is not just limited to PCs or Notebooks. In the fast paced mobile world, where people access the Internet using their mobile phones, virus attack on mobile phones is now another outlet for cyber criminals to spread malicious programs. Quick Heal Total Security provides the PC2Mobile Scan feature where you can scan, detect and delete malwares, viruses and spywares from your mobile phones.
• PC2Mobile Scan supports following mobile phones - Apple iPhone, Asus, BlackBerry, E-Ten, E-Volve, Fujitsu Siemens, LG, Mivvy, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Segam, Sharp, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, ZTC, HTC, I-Mate, HP, O2 and all the Windows Mobile phones.
• Data Theft Protection - Data Theft Protection prevents unauthorized copy of confidential or sensitive data from your PC. It blocks access to pen drive/CD writer or other USB storage devices from your PC. Using this feature, neither the systems data can be copied to the removable drives nor the data from outside (removable drives) be copied to your system.
• Secure Delete - The Secure Delete feature permanently erases files from the hard drive, as opposed to the normal delete procedure, making it unrecoverable
• Disk Cleanup - You have created a new folder, but forgot to add files in the folder. You created a shortcut to a location, and after a few days deleted the location, but not the shortcut. Youve been surfing the net for quite some time now and the temporary Internet files have accumulated in the respective folder. All of these are invalid files or junk files that clutter your system hard drive and affects system performance. With the Disk Cleanup feature you can remove such clutter to free up disk space that can be used for other applications or for improving system performance.

Product Details:

General

• Parental Control:Yes
• Email Protection:Yes
• Type:Internet Security
• Variant:1 PC 1 Year
• Num Of Pc:1
• Model Name:Internet Security 2012 1 PC 1 Year
• Version:2012
• Features:Web Security, Firewall protection, Flashdrive protection, Protects USB drives from autorun infections, Boot time scan
• Malware Spam Protection:Yes
• Limitation:Email Protection does not support encrypted email connections that use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Quick Heal Anti-Rootkit is not supported on 64-bit operating systems, Quick Heal Self Protection is not supported for Microsoft Windows 2000 Operating System
• Model Id:Internet Security 2012
• Antivirus Protection:Yes
• Brand:Quick Heal
• Validity:1

System Requirements

• Other Requirements:CD-ROM or DVD-ROM Drive, Internet Explorer 6 or higher
• Hard Drive:1 GB free space
• Processor:Windows 2000 Professional (SP4) – 300 MHz Pentium Processor, Windows XP (SP2) – 300 MHz Pentium Processor, Windows Vista – 1 GHz Pentium Processor, Windows 7 – 1 GHz Pentium Processor
• Operating System:Windows 2000 Professional (SP4), Windows XP (SP2), Windows Vista, Windows 7
• Memory:Windows 2000 Professional (SP4) – 256 MB RAM, Windows XP (SP2) – 256 MB RAM, Windows Vista – 512 MB RAM, Windows 7 (32-bit) – 512 MB RAM, Windows 7 (64-bit) – 1 GB RAM

Overview

Quick Heal Internet Security protects your laptops and desktops against all kinds of Internet or network-based threats like spyware, viruses, malware and rootkit to offer you a smooth and worry-free online surfing, shopping, and socializing. Upon installation, it provides security against new and unknown threats with Quick Heal’s renowned DNAScan Technology. Its improved Anti-Phishing feature ensures that you do not land on phishing sites when browsing the net. The Parental Control feature allows you to schedule Internet access for your children and its pre-configured restricted browsing ensures that children do not visit adult sites. It utilizes minimum system resources, thereby giving complete protection to your system without slowing it down.

Verdict

In my opinion, Quick Heal Internet Security 20 falls short of being an effective security solution. The firewall provides average protection at best and has no options available that give the end user an opportunity to improve it. The scanning engine is less than effective and my experience with the browser protection found it to be severely lacking. Beyond basic application performance, Quick Heal is also poorly positioned to protect against malware that would seek to end its critical services and processes leaving a system with no protection at all. This suite is one I hesitate to even apply the “Buy for Geeks!” award to. It certainly does not belong on Grandma’s computer.

This is especially helpful for people who don’t get much spam *yet* or have just gotten a new email address and would like to keep it spam-free.

• Disguise e-mail addresses posted in a public electronic place.

CDT received the most spam just by placing an e-mail address at the bottom of a webpage. Spammers “harvest” these addresses with computer programs that collect and process addresses and add them to spam mailing lists.

If a user must post his/her e-mail address in a public place (like a newsgroup), it is useful to disguise the address through simple means such as replacing “example@domain.com” with “example at domain dot com” or other variations such as the HTML numeric equivalent, in which “example@domain.com” could be written “example@d omain.com.”

Another alternative is to replace the actual text of your email address with an image that shows the email address. While users will still be able to read it, spammers can’t harvest it.

Generally, using the mailto: link should be avoided. It is better to use one of the above codes to disguise the text and then link to a page with a feedback form people can fill out rather than linking directly to your email.

Also, be sure and opt out of member directories that may place your e-mail address online. If your employer places your e-mail address online, ask the Webmaster to make sure it is disguised in some way.

• Read carefully when filling out online forms requesting your email address, and exercise your choice.

If you don’t want to receive e-mail from a Web site operator, don’t give them your e-mail address unless they offer the option of declining to receive e-mail and you exercise that option.

If you are asked for your e-mail address in an online setting such as a form, make sure you pay attention to any options discussing how the address will be used. Pay attention to check boxes that request the right to send you e-mails or share your e-mail address with partners.

Read the privacy policies of Web sites. If you suspect that a Web site has violated its privacy policy, you can report it to your state attorney general or the Federal Trade Commission.

We recommend that you be especially wary of sweepstakes and other online contests that give free prizes. If you sign up for such things… well, you’re going to get spam.

• Use multiple e-mail addresses.

When using an unfamiliar Web site or posting to a newsgroup, establish an e-mail address for that specific purpose (If you just HAVE to enter that online sweepstakes, this could be a good option).

Alternatively, instead of just using one or two e-mail addresses, you can use “disposable e-mail addresses,” which consolidate e-mail in a single location but allow you to immediately shut off any address that is attracting spam.

By recording which disposable address was used at which web site, one can track what sites are causing spam.

Many Web sites are now providing free e-mail accounts. A search in Google Directory for “disposable e-mail addresses” provides a list of e-mail providers designed for one-time use e-mails.

• Use a filter.

Many ISPs and free e-mail services now provide spam filtering. While filters are not perfect, they can cut down tremendously the amount of spam a user receives.

There are also several anti-spam solutions available online. We hope to review some of these soon.

• Short e-mail addresses are easy to guess, and may receive more spam.

At least one spammer tried to guess the e-mail addresses used in this study by sending mail to short and common addresses. E-mail addresses composed of short names and initials like bob@ or tse@, or basic combinations like smithj@ or toms@ will probably receive more spam.

E-mail addresses need not be incomprehensible, but a user with a common or short name may want to modify or add to it in some way in his or her e-mail address.

More tips for reducing spam:

• Never respond directly to junk email.

Don’t bother to reply to spam, even to request that your address be removed from the list. When you do this, you are telling spammers that your account is active and you are reading your email. This results in — guess what? — more spam.

Furthermore, most spammers use fake “reply-to” email addresses. If you really have to complain to someone, complain to the ISP where the spam originated… but be forewarned that spammers are incredibly good at covering their tracks. It could prove tricky to discover the actual point of origination.

• Don’t ever buy anything from spammers.

Want people to stop sending spam? Well, do your part to make sure that kind of marketing doesn’t work by not buying from them, and tell your friends to do the same. Besides, who wants to buy a product from a spammer? You can’t expect good customer service from a company that uses such dishonest marketing practices.

The Internet is fraught with dangers for children, ranging from offensive content and downloading malware that can hurt your computer to strangers finding out who your children are and where they live.

Here are some tips for helping your kids stay safe on the Internet.

• Talk to your kids about what the Internet is; explain that there is no privacy on the Internet so private info shouldn’t be shared. Talk about unmoderated chat rooms, where most of the really bad stuff on the Internet happens, and explain what is and is not acceptable behavior.
• Put your computer in a public room in the house rather than a bedroom so behavior on the Internet can be monitored.
• Ban P2P file sharing (such as Kazaa) — it’s one of the best ways to get a virus or spyware.
• Consider installing a parental controls software program such as CYBERsitter, a highly rated and easy-to-use program that will block offensive web sites and track Internet behavior.
• Make yourself the administrator and your kids the other users, so they are restricted in what they can change (e.g. mess up) on the family computer.

Many people disapprove of using software to track other people’s online behavior. In fact, that is exactly what “spyware” is… and a big part of some site is devoted to getting rid of spyware.

However, in the case of your children and their welfare, “spying” may be a justified action. This is especially true if you believe your children may be engaging in inappropriate or even dangerous behavior online.

There are several software tools available to help you protect your child and track their activities online. One of these products is CyberSitter, a 4-time winner of PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award.

CyberSitter will allow you to block objectionable web sites completely. It also will give you detailed log reports including online activity, email messages and IM (instant messenger) conversations.

Also, it’s easy to install and runs silently in the background so your kid can’t uninstall or defeat it and won’t even know it’s running, even if he/she is more computer-savvy than you are.

In addition, you can give it a try free for 10 days, so it’s a pretty good deal.

If you’ve got a backup of your hard drive, it’s no problem to recover everything. But if you don’t, we all know you’re in for all kinds of time- or money-consuming problems. But the truth is that most of us are too lazy to back up everything on a regular basis.

An easy way to prevent loss of files and data is to use system rollback software. If you have some kind of problem with your computer, you can roll your system back to a time before the problem happened.

Windows XP comes with a system rollback utility called System Restore, but you have to remember to make and store recovery disks for it, and it only rolls back critical system files and leaves other data alone.

There are other, more powerful system rollback utilities you can purchase separately. The one I use is the PC Magazine Editor’s Choice, GoBack 3 Deluxe from Symantec (formerly made by Roxio). It costs $30, and it has saved my bacon more than once.

It can restore your hard drive and all your files, including data files. This is great because, if you accidentally changed or deleted a file you needed, you can restore it using GoBack. It automatically saves “safe points” to go back to when the system isn’t busy, either at certain time intervals or when important changes to the system, such as program installation or uninstallation, are made.

Several groups of hackers in Bangladesh, including the “Cyber Bangladesh Army” and “Black Hat Tigers” have launched a series of cyber attacks against more than 25,000 websites in India with the help of Pakistani hackers and members of the group Anonymous.

The hackers launched attacks in protest against the killings and human rights violations by Indian troops on the border with Bangladesh. “We have no personal problem with the people of India. But the brutality of the security forces of the Frontier and the Indian government has forced us to do this, “said a member of the Cyber Bangladesh Army on Facebook.

Attackers launched denial of service attacks a large number of websites in India to let them inactive and change the appearance of other messages that include hackers asking them to stop the killings at the border. Among the sites attacked is the website of the Security Forces of India Border, the main enemy of the hackers.

Cyber Pirates of Bangladesh Army also posted a video on YouTube in which they make a series of demands to the government of India to stop attacking the websites of their country. Among these demands are to stop the killings at the border, allow the media in his country entering India or withdraw the Indian media in Bangladesh, stop attacks Bangladesh virtual sites, etc.

Meanwhile, Indian hackers also proudly announced that they had left inactive five websites of different ministries of Bangladesh and are striving to make the website of a major telecommunications company in this country.

Microsoft today has presented in partnership with a text of 1,000 words explaining the evolution and the reasons for the new design, which judging by the reaction on my timeline is still quite controversial.

In the words of Paula Scher, the agency Pentagram designer, who designs the new Windows logo, “is not a flag, and is a window?” Sam Moreau explained in the post as the logo changed from a window in Windows 1.0 to be a kind of flag waving from Windows 3.1.

“As we grew the power of computers to display screen fonts with more definition, more colors and gradients to the graphics or create perspective effects what began as a window evolved into a flag”

So the new logo, simple, single color, can be considered a return to the original logo for version 1.0.

I’m not a graphic designer and so my opinion has little value, but something about this new logo that I like. It may be only a matter of getting used to. It is true that manages to keep the idea of classic window while rescuing the new iconography of Metro, the user interface of Windows 8. In this new edition of Windows, after all, the window “traditional” desktop life can be said to have died, or at least that is much more hidden for certain types of users and machines.

This system provides greater protection than systems based on “black lists” in which the user is the one to block viruses and harmful software. In addition, McAfee and Xerox solution can track and investigate the time and source of security alerts.

“With more than 50,000 new security threats every day, protecting the most” sensitive “business is a huge challenge for IT managers, especially when you consider that any device that is on the corporate network from a PC to a fax, you may be exposed to these threats, “said Rick Dastin, president of Enterprise Business Group, Xerox.

“In order to address this situation, McAfee and Xerox will work together to ensure that devices are safe and that the company information is protected,” adds Dastin.

Xerox and McAfee and are therefore working together to improve the security of networked devices and protect data owned by the company.

Study on the knowledge of security policies

As part of this collaboration, both companies have commissioned a study to assess the degree of knowledge of security policies by employees and, among its conclusions, highlights that over half of them do not follow or do not know.

In particular, more than half, 54%. Of these, 33% say they do not always follow the safety policies of their companies and 21% do not know them directly, jeopardizing the safety of numbers of credit cards, financial reports and departmental databases as sales or human resources, plus tax and legal documents.

According to the report, only 39% of employees that copy, scan or print confidential information at work are concerned if the network device information is secure.

Moreover, the survey also found that some companies do not carry out the minimum procedures to reduce risks, such as making sure employees know the rules of IT and use access codes to collect prints and copies.

Additional study findings reveal that:

? Half (51%) of employees whose jobs have a printer, copier or multifunction system admit having copied, scanned or printed confidential information at work

? Of the 39% who said they worry about maintaining the security of confidential information, 86% do personal information, 77% of customer data, 77% of employee information, and 70% of information Company

? More than half (54%) think that computers are the biggest network security risk of your company compared to other electronic devices, while only 6% pointed to MFPs

? Only 13% of employees whose workplace has a printer, copier or MFP are asked to enter a password or code on the computer before printing a document or to make a copy.

“The landscape of security threats has evolved considerably to include devices that, when they were designed, were never considered a security risk,” says Tom Moore, vice president of sales integrated McAfee.

“We understand the need for safety devices such as multifunction printers to protect sensitive data that if lost or stolen, could have a negative impact on the company and its employees. The partnership between McAfee and Xerox integrates security with the device for better protection. “

In version 4, ESET offered a simple interface and an advanced interface, as well as a very complex advanced setup. Version 5 has removed the advanced interface and tamed the advanced setup, to a degree. Most users will only need to open advanced setup on advice from tech support.

Installation

ESET’s installation could be faster, although it’s by no means sluggish. It’s slowed down by a preponderance of screens, including registration, and an unnecessary query as to whether or not the user wants Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) protection activated or not. While a legitimate query, there’s no reason for it to slow down the install by yet another screen to click through.

PUPs are definitely a security issue, though, so perhaps the program ought to just scan for them on the first scan automatically, and then ask you if it’s a scan you always want.

One decent thing about the registration process is that it’s all done from within the suite–no need to jump to your browser. Also, there’s no reboot required after the installation. Still, the one-minute-or-less installs from Norton and Trend Micro should be a goal that all security suites aspire to.

Security Features

Our first scan using ESET took a bit longer than we expected. The initial scan took over 16 minutes to scan 157,849 objects. However, scans can be set to run in the background or in a less intrusive manner. You can also schedule scans and select what kinds of scans you want to run.

The parental control tools can manage over 20 predefined website categories such as adult, games, gambling, shopping, criminal activities and proxies. You can also block or allow specific websites and regulate how much time your child spends online. They also offer family security training to help adults and children make a better choice about what websites they visit and what information to share online.

To facilitate uninterrupted game playing and streaming they have a game mode. When game mode is active it will suspend system notifications and pause scans. To protect from malware that infects via non-internet sources, it can scan drives and discs as well as block by device type. A few security features that this software does not provide include website advisors, a safe browser, a sandbox, social networking tools and a virtual keyboard.

System Requirements of Eset Smart Security

• Processors supported – Intel or AMD x86-x64
• Operating Systems – Microsoft Windows 7 (32- and 64-bit editions), Microsoft Windows Vista (32- and 64-bit editions), Microsoft Windows XP (32- and 64-bit editions) and Microsoft Windows 2000.
• Disk Space (download) – 55 MB

The Good

Low usage of system resources and the great detection rate are the best features in package. More advanced users can rely on SysInspector to create system snapshots, compare them and spot alterations.

Antispam protection was pretty good and managed to keep most of the good mail in our inbox, with only a few newsletters being mismanaged. It integrates in most popular email clients and allows you to reclassify messages.

The Bad

In automatic mode, the firewall allows all outbound connections and blocks incoming communication.

Parental controls are not as flexible and option-rich as in other suites, and are based on the accounts available on Windows.

Conclusion

ESET Smart Security boasts an extensive, successful malware detection history. Over 25 years of experience in the internet security industry has helped them create a clean, efficient security suite that can be relied upon to identify cyber threats as they emerge.Though the benchmarking is generally solid, improvements are needed in all other areas of the suite before we would be comfortable awarding it higher marks. However, if you want more web search assistance or social networking protection tools, you may want to look at one of our higher-ranked products.