Web Security Review

by mheo soriano

Customer Support
AVG Technologies has provided AVG Anti-Virus 8 users with an e-mail technical support within. In their site Grisoft.com there is FAQs site which will be useful for users who are having trouble. There is also a downloadable 124-page users’ manual in PDF format. Like the previous versions AVG does not provide telephone technical support or a free online user’s forum for entertaining questions from troubled users..

Conclusion
Overall, AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 works great on the detection and removal of virus, malware and spyware. It also works well in blocking Web threats. Future updates are also available to strengthen it and improve its performance. But it would be better if it has more technical support options in the future.

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New Feature: The Link Scanner

The AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 newest addition, the Linkscanner technology promises to give AVG a more versatile protection. Linkscanner, developed by Exploit Prevention Labs, is known to obstruct malicious content from Web sites from getting in your computer.
Adding this to the system, surfing online with AVG Anti Virus 8.0 seems to be more secure than before.

What AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 linkscanner feature lacks is additional information about the exploit, unlike the standalone Linkscanner Pro package, which provides detailed information about the exploit it finds as well as a rich log archive so that sites with malicious software can be easily identified.

Although not as powerful as the Linkscanner Pro, AVG’s Linkscanner works great for an additional feature.

To be continued…

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Interface

The user interface of the AVG AntiVirus 8.0 is an improved version of the previous design. However it turned out to be somewhat complicated, the right windowpane seems too crowded with the large icons (there are nine icons). Under each icon is a note that indicates whether the feature is active or not. When an icon is clicked the application will either display additional information about that tool (if an icon tool is clicked) or run that specific scan.
On the other hand the left windowpane only has three selections.

The Overview , Computer Scanner, and Update Now Options.

Computer Scanner has only one option, Scan All.

Update Now is intended to search the grisoft.com for updates.

There is a toolbar on top of the windows which contains the advanced feature options.

To be Continued…

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AVG just released the AVG Anti Virus 8.0 last March 2008. And it is now equipped with the Linkscanner Technology, an advance that can actively block malicious content from site in the world wide web. These sites may either be hijacked or designed to send malicious content that can harm your computer. There are thousands of reported cases about this matter around the globe.

Also the AVG integrated its three past innovations (the antivirus, antispyware, and antirootkit) into one powerful product. T also features the drive-by download protection that contributed to AVG’s award winning effectiveness

It does a great job in the blocking and removing virus, malware and spyware. However its somewhat exhibits slow performance when it was tested by CNET Labs. Even though the individual applications load fast, the scan and boot appeared to be slow.

To be Continued…

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Symantec has just recently released its newest products in security, adding up another reliable software to protect your pc form the latest security and vulnerability threats. Norton Internet Security 2009 provides protection on all online threats known today. It provides protection to your personal computer, your identity and your home network without taking much of your precious hard disk space. The latest product is re engineered to provide you with faster scans and updates. Now you can definitely, do your banking, shopping and browsing online without having to fear anything. It promises to stop the threats even before they install themselves in your precious machine. It now checks on the files which are the most targeted for exploitation so as to speed up scanning.

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This is an alarming news, everyone. We all know about Youtube, right? Well, it’s dangerous as MySpace, FaceBook, or any online community now. Given that Youtube also allows “pg 13” stuffs, but that’s not the danger we’re talking about. That’s right. Some of the pages in Youtube have links that opens malicious machines into your computer. These machines have the ability to save your computer’s keystrokes, copies data, or even control your computer for another hacking scheme. Some people can separate the real and the fraud just by looking in the URL in the status bar, but it is much safer if you just search it in youtube itself. You know why? Some hackers make their preys open these links by making them their friends first. They just did this just because this is the time of election in the US, and youtube-users provide videos about the election, or their insight.