During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows Vista, which was released to manufacturing yesterday, told a reporter that the system’s new lockdown features are so capable and thorough that he was comfortable with his own seven-year-old son using Vista without antivirus software installed.
Allchin’s statement came in response to a question about his relative level of confidence that Vista would be more secure than Windows XP SP2. In response, he noted there were key security features added to Vista which could not be added to Windows XP SP2 even though, he said, his people apparently tried to do so.
Two such features — namely Vista’s new parental controls, and Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), which renders the object code of the system kernel in memory differently each time to thwart the designs of malicious code — render his son’s Vista machine comfortable enough for him to use, even though production-quality anti-virus software for the unit has yet to be completed. Read the rest of this entry »
Here is another video review of a spyware program “XoftSpy SE” which will help you to remove any kinds of harmful spyware programs and even viruses. As for me when I tried this prog I found a few new spyware programs on my PC. Some of them were not spyware programs at all but still there was one spyware programs which was not found by other well-known anti-spyware programs. So you’d better watch this video review of XoftSpy SE and decide if you wanna try it.
PC on the Internet are constantly attacked with harmful viruses and other malware, and as a result users have antivirus protections in place, including antispam applications for use against the new viruses in your e-mail box. It seems like just when everything appears to be in control, there’s something new that your computer has picked up, perhaps an application running silently in the background to collect reports on the history of your computer use.
The better kinds of ad and spy applications simply monitor your activity for their own information. They’ll track you to the sites you visit in order to gain information about Web surfing trends to better their marketing outreach. Not so bad. But other types of applications go beyond regular tracking and instead watch for patterns in keystrokes to develop possible password possibilities; this could be a real risk to security. So how does one rid themselves of these unscrupulous little programs? It’s often easier to prevent spyware than detect and remove it - at times just attempting to remove these programs can render other share and freeware applications useless.
Below find a list of some steps to take to find and remove spyware applications from your computer system:
* Be careful what you download! If looking for a specific patch or shareware download, it’s often a good idea to use trusted sites. Download.com and tucows.com are some sites with a good reputation. Read the rest of this entry »
It is a well-known fact that it’s very easy to ruin your windows by different Trojans and viruses which can be found in Internet. We buy expensive anti-virus or spyware programs to kill and remove these harmful programs but we forget that it can be prevented. In this video tutorial you will learn how to avoid your PC be infected by viruses and Trojans.
Norton 360 Video Review - If you want to use Norton 360 as your primary anti-virus program you should watch this video tutorial to make a good decision. I am absolutely sure that after watching this video review of this famous anti-virus program you will make a right choice as there you can learn about its interface and functions to configure it for your computer.