Symantec: Spammers Target Social Networking

Symantec: Spammers Target Social Networking- Antivirus vendor: Symantec reported the analysis of the social networking spam between April and June 2011.

From these studies, identified that the spam follows a cyclical pattern among a number of social media sites are observed.

Analysts also observed a sudden spike in the number of attacks targetted Facebook.

Surprisingly, when the attacks decreased Facebook, on Twitter attacks have increased and gradually fade, then surge followed the attack on YouTube.

Symantec monitors, most of these social networking spam comes from botnets that 53 percent of which came from the United States. Large user base and popularity is increasing every social networking may be the main reason for spammers to continue tetarik in the "business" is tantalizing.

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Kaspersky Antivirus 2011 is one of the best antivirus software, from Kaspersky test usually always ranked at the top. Various features are provided in this 2011 version includes some additional features from previous editions. As one of the media campaign, in partnership with Kaspersky Lab Southeast Asia, airasiamegastore.com provide free licenses KAV 2011 for its members (or so members) are valid for 6 months.

Kaspersky Antivirus 2011 provides protection for computer users from viruses, trojans, rookits, bots, phishing, spyware and other threats that are known or not. 2011 The new version adds features such as System Watcher, Heuristic-based analysis and also monitors the Windows desktop gadget for quick access KAV 2011 and other features.

Some of Kaspersky Antivirus 2011 features among others:

* Real time protection
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* System Watcher
* Windows Gadgets
* Virtual Keyboard
* Privacy Cleaner - Clean IE history, cookies, ogs, prefetch and other
* Vulnerability Scanner - will scan the exploit other alikasi
* Rescue Disk
* Quarantine and Exclusions
* Scheduler, an option to schedule a scan time
* Automatic or Manual Update

Kaspersky Antivirus 2011 usually costing $ 39.95 for each license, but as part of a promotion, we can get a free (valid for 6 months). Do the following:

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Terms, Conditions and Notes

There are a few terms, conditions or entry when using KAV 2011 edition of this promotion. Like for example:

* Install KAV 2011 when it received the license code
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Kaspersky Antivirus 2011 can run on Windows XP Home / Professional (SP 2 or above, minimum Intel Pentium 500 MHz and 512 MB RAM), Windows Vista, Windows 7 (Starter, Basic, Home, Professional and Permium). For Windows Vista and 7 at least 1 GHz CPU and 1 GB of RAM (32 bit) or 2 GB (for 64bit). To Netbook, Intel Atom CPU at least 1:33 MHz, RAM 1 GB

Prevent virus spread through flash

Common use of flashdisk is everywhere, be one reason for the proliferation of viruses, especially the local virus. This is seen since its heyday eagle virus. Until recently, I often see nearly every computer / laptop in the office friends exposed to the virus, which sometimes they do not realize. Besides Antivirus which should always be updated at least once a week, there are actually very useful tips to prevent infectious virus from the media such as flash without us knowing it. Here are the steps:

1. Open the Registry Editor, by clicking Start Menu> Run and type regedit and click OK

2. Find Location

KEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer

3. Create a new key (Right click> New> DWORD Value) give name: NoDriveAutoRun

New Free Antimalware-IObit Malware Fighter

IObit may already be familiar to most of us, Advanced System Care is one of the most popular software product. Now they also released an anti-malware security products new, IObit Malware Fighter, which has a feature to scan the various Malware such as spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, bots, and worms and other threats from the internet.

Although still in beta (not final version, so it is possible there are still shortcomings / mistakes program), but the features are given quite a lot and when I try there's no problem.

In addition to the above features, the Scan menu, we can choose 3 types of scans, namely: Smart Scan (scan quickly by selecting the important area only), Full Scan (Scan all hard drives), Custom Scan (select the area to be scanned). There is also a feature called DOG (Digital Original Gene), malware detection algorithms by considering various factors such as manufacturing, distribution and advertising that included the software.

Download the latest version, Free Avast Antivirus 6.0

Avast is an antivirus that is quite popular, particularly for the category of free antivirus. Not only was free, but the features included quite abundant, even in its free version though. Precedes the other antivirus products, Avast has just released a new version of antivirus products, Avast Antivirus 6.0. This new version will surely give a new look and features, so that for users of version 5, should not miss this new version.

Free Avast Antivirus 6.0 provides features quite a lot, usually in other products are given only in paid version, of course this is pretty exciting news, especially those that have limited funds and has not been able to buy a paid antivirus software. Several new features or benefits of Avast Antivirus 6.0 include:

# Auto Sanbox - the first automatic virtualization feature for categorical Antivirus.

AutoSanbox identify rogue applications (suspicious) and automatically displays a message to the user whether to run these applications in a secure virtual machine. If the application is malicious then the virtual machines will avast shutdown and the computer / PC will remain safe.