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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Avira Free Antivirus 2012 is fast and is unlikely to scare you with false-positive warnings about legitimate files, but it is also worse than average at detecting malware, and its interface is overly complicated.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Microsoft Security Essentials 2.1 is something of a mixed bag. I like its interface, and it is reasonably good at cleaning up infections, but it falters at stopping new malware, and it plods through its chores.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Sophos Endpoint Anti-Virus 10 is an internet security suite from the UK-based provider of enterprise-level malware protection. It's sold to individual customers, but is principally aimed at small businesses.
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
Your smartphone can be a treasure trove of private data, with everything from your bank account information to your email and social networking passwords stored inside.
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Isolate malware before you accidentally share it from your Mac.
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Saturday, March 5, 2011
If you're a Mac user thinking about security, is a free antivirus such as Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition the way to go?
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Thursday, December 2, 2010
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 takes fifth place in our roundup of 2011 antivirus software, closely trailing fourth place finisher G Data AntiVirus 2011. It did a great job at stopping brand new malware attacks, and a reasonable, though not top notch, job at detecting known malware and it sports a well designed interface. On the downside, its impact on PC performance was worse than average.
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Panda Cloud Antivirus is a unique entry in the free antivirus race. Most free antivirus products still rely on signature updates to detect new malware, but Panda's program instead uses fresh data about malware direct from Panda's servers.
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Avast Free Antivirus 5 took the top spot in our late 2010 roundup of free antivirus software. It provides good, all round malware detection in a speedy, well designed package.
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
When we looked at the beta of Microsoft Security Essentials in 2009, we were impressed with its clean, easy-to-use interface, but less so with its sluggish scan speed. This still holds true for Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0. Also, it hasn't kept pace with newer antivirus products when it comes to detecting malware.
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Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture stole the limelight this year, summarily trouncing its predecessors, and the best that AMD had to offer, with considerable performance boosts and power savings. Today, Intel is announcing the Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition, an £800 CPU that distills the lessons the company has learned over the past year into a single piece of premium silicon. read more...
Fusion 4 is the newest version of VMware's virtualisation solution for the Mac, which allows you to run multiple operating systems within Mac OS X. Since we reviewed Fusion 3, VMWare has added support for Lion and the ability to create OS X Lion virtual machines, reduced the consumption of system resources to zero when you aren't running a virtual machine, redesigned the settings window, and much more. read more...
New 16-core AMD Opteron 6200-series CPUs in the Dell R715 bring huge bang for the buck to wide virtualization workloads, but not until your OS supports it read more...
Back in the days of traditional film photography, it was easy to see when you had many photos: Shelves full of albums (or shoeboxes bursting with prints) were visible. Today, you could have hundreds of thousands of photos in your collection, and they would take up next to no physical space. Organizing all of those photos, however, is still a massive undertaking. Daminion Standalone is a free application that tries to help you tag and sort your photos in ways that make sense. read more...
Just because Microsoft no longer makes FrontPage doesn't mean people no longer need a visual way to create websites. On the contrary: Breezi (currently in free Beta) joins the ranks of visual website creation tools alongside Wix, Weebly, Jimdo, and many other tools. Breezi may not be completely unique, but it sure has style. read more...
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