“Free security software provides safe option” plus 2 more |
- Free security software provides safe option
- tw telecom teams up with Cisco, BT on telepresence
- Apax Buys Control of Sophos
| Free security software provides safe option Posted: 16 May 2010 09:15 PM PDT Dear PropellerHeads: My friend told me to stop paying for Windows PC security and use one of the free products out there. Is it safe? Answer: Safe is relative. So free anti-virus protection might be just the thing for some people. Subscription-based anti-virus programs, such as McAfee (mcafee.com), Norton/Symantec (antivirus.norton.com), Kapersky (kaspersky.com) and others, provide good protection at affordable prices, usually about $30 or $40 a year. New PCs often come loaded with a 90-day or one-year trial subscription. Many are left wondering what they should do when the friendly reminder tells them that it's time to renew. You could do a lot worse than re-up for a year, especially if you've had no problems. So, no news really might be good news. PC Magazine has an article (http://bit.ly/7T5kDy) reviewing lots of security products. There are lots of free choices. PropellerHeads like free. By the way, we pay for comprehensive anti-virus protection at our office. The risk there is greater, the downside worse, and office suites have some built-in admin tools that make our life easier. At home, I think saving a few bucks probably makes sense. For years, as my neighbors and cousins asked me to help them set up their PCs, I have recommended the free version of AVG (avg.com). This is a good security package and supports the virus definition and engine updates that you would expect. AVG's free product is supposed to tempt you to upgrade to its pay-for service. Fair enough. But the company has gotten pretty aggressive about it. When a new version comes out, it's pretty tough to find out how to renew the free version and not accidentally sign up for the pay-for one. One hint is to go to Download.CNET.com and search for "AVG free" instead of navigating through the AVG site. Other good and free PC security products that might work for you include MalWareBytes (malwarebytes.org), SpyBot (safer-networking.org) and Ad-Aware (Lavasoft.com/Ad-Aware). Be careful where you download any products. Make sure you are at the official site so you don't fall prey to unscrupulous imitators that might make things worse for you. There is a new player in town, sort of. Microsoft has released its latest entry into PC home security, called Microsoft Security Essentials (microsoft.com/security) Best of all . . . it's free! This is a replacement for its previous products, OneCare and Defender. It also has an enterprise security solution called Forefront. But Security Essentials is great for home use. I have installed this on a few computers, and so far so good. It installed nicely. What I like best is that the default settings are all well-thought-out. For instance, if it detects an attack while you're away from your PC, after 10 minutes of no response from you, it will take the default protection action. That usually means it will delete the bad guy after taking a system restore point. The only setting I changed was to do a weekly full scan instead of the quick scan it recommended. MSE will run on XP, Vista and Windows 7. Microsoft says this will protect you from the bad stuff out there, including viruses, spyware, adware, rootkits, worms and trojans. Time will tell how well this protects our PCs, but overall, I have been impressed. It's basically, install and forget about it. Unlike some products I have used, it doesn't seem to eat up all your computing power to do its job.
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| tw telecom teams up with Cisco, BT on telepresence Posted: 17 May 2010 02:34 AM PDT tw telecom, a provider of managed voice, internet and data networking offerings, said that it is collaborating with Cisco and BT Conferencing to deliver a high-definition business videoconferencing offering in the US.
The company said that the new offering will help enable companies with the Cisco TelePresence equipment to communicate and collaborate within and between companies.
Cisco TelePresence helps people meet, share content, create video recordings and events, consult with experts and deliver personalised services.
Under the arrangement, tw telecom is provisioning its nation-wide business broadband ethernet and MPLS IP VPN services to connect the enterprise customer to BT's Global Video Exchange conferencing platform, while Cisco and several of its key VAR partners, including BT, deliver and install the required Cisco TelePresence equipment at those enterprise customer locations.
Troy Knuckles, senior vice president of sales at tw telecom, said: " Helping to unleash the power of Cisco TelePresence for collaboration and communication between two or more different companies requires the Cisco TelePresence system to be as simple as making a phone call. With our network services and collaboration with Cisco and BT we've accomplished just that.
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| Posted: 16 May 2010 03:04 PM PDT London-based private equity house Apax Partners is buying 70% of Sophos, the privately held security ISV that competes with McAfee and Symantec, for about $580 million. The $260-million-a-year British antivirus company had IPO designs but apparently found an easier way to cash out. Some of the money is earmarked for acquisitions. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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