Intex has joined in a strategic alliance with leading electronic retailer Emax and will have a display area amongst the giant Emax exhibition stand.Intex will   offer its range at special prices at the show and bundle offers on various products.

In a special GITEX promotion, Emax will give away more than 1,000 Intex Tablets at the show. “Intex Tablet was created to bring customers an affordable tablet that does not cut corners in innovation or design. With accessible applications, sleek design for all purposes and users, and 
impressive features to make a person’s life easier,” Sanjay Bansal, managing director of Intex Technologies, said.

The Intex Tablet runs on a Cortex A9 processor, with a storage of 8GB. It weighs up to 380 grams and measures 18.6 x 11.2 x 0.85cm. The 7-inch resistive single-touch screen offers 800 X 480 resolution, bluetooth and WiFi connectivity.

The second Intex offering at GITEX is the Safe Surf Antivirus 2011. The software offers computer protection from viruses and spyware and makes browsing the web safer.

It has been developed in association with leading security software developer- PC Tools.

The software is primarily targeted at end consumers and Small Office Home Office businesses that are looking at effective yet simple ways to deploy antivirus solutions.

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The latest offering by AVAST Software, avast! EasyPass, is a password manager that puts security at the user’s fingertips. It quickly goes to work on its first visit to a website, memorizing the user name and password. This login information is automatically supplied during subsequent visits.

Using a password generator and military-grade encryption algorithms such as Blowfish and AES to protect data, the EasyPass password manager allows users to have secure access to their saved passwords wherever there is an Internet connection.

Available only through the AVAST online shop, EasyPass will pre-fill selected data into almost any web form, in a single click. Passwords are even automatically synchronized so that users can use login information in multiple devices.

According to a press release, a survey of avast! users indicated that a very low penetration rate for password managers. According to the survey, more and more participants intended to deploy a password manager if the application was: easy to use and saves time with one-click data entry into web forms; keeps passwords in a secure, encrypted location; and remembers various passwords in one place.

Officials with AVAST Software said that EasyPass has been designed to meet these expectations for a password saver

“EasyPass is a rare phenomenon: an application that saves people time and headaches while also increasing their level of security,” said Vince Steckler, CEO of AVAST Software, in a statement. “As people add more computers to their households, they are also increasing the number of passwords – and their need for a way to quickly and easily remember them.”

Steckler added, “Computer users want convenience, they expect security. Now with avast! EasyPass, they can have both.”

In recent news, AVAST Software had launched a new comprehensive IT security software for small and medium-sized businesses, called as avast! Business Protection, which is powered by 6.0 antivirus engine and includes a new browser-based central management console. The application provides IT administrators and service providers with the ability to remotely manage protected desktops and servers in their network via the Internet.

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And if you’ve another antivirus package installed, the program now detects this and warns you of potential conflicts.  Don’t worry, though, this isn’t one of those annoying tools that demands you remove the competition before it’ll install itself: if you want to keep the other antivirus tool, then that’s just fine.

In theory, once the program is installed then you can use it immediately, no need to restart your PC.  In practice this didn’t work out for us, as there was a problem with Avira’s system tray tool (avgnt.exe), but this seemed to be a one-off issue, perhaps related to our test system’s configuration.  Anyway, we rebooted, the system tray tool ran perfectly from that point on, and we were ready to continue with our tests.

Accurate

The Avira Antivirus Premium 2012 interface has been redesigned to make the program simpler to use, and this generally works well.

Just on the status screen alone, for instance, you can see the status of each individual module, the date of your last scan and antivirus update, and an overall summary of your PC’s current condition.  Scan, update, realtime, web and mail protection settings are just a click away, and you can schedule a scan, view your logs or carry out other advanced options by choosing a link from the left-hand panel.

To check your PC for the first time, then, all you have to do is click “Scan system”. The trial version of Avira Antivirus Premium 2012 will then warn you that “this is an evaluation licence”, annoyingly, and the free version includes a daily prompt to upgrade, too, but a quick click on the OK button will dismiss these irritations and the scan can proceed.

The full scan first checks for hidden objects, a process that took around 11 minutes on our test PC. The program told us it had uncovered eight, but were these processes, files, Registry keys? It didn’t say, recommending only that we scan our system with the Avira Rescue CD for “exact identification and repair”. So we did, later, but this didn’t find any hidden objects at all.  Which was a little frustrating.

Fortunately we had more luck with the conventional scan, which detected all our malware samples. There was a single false positive, but even that was understandable (it was a malware-like script). Avira generally does well in independent tests — the previous engine was 3rd out of 20 in AV-Comparatives most recent report, with a 99.5 percent detection rate — and the 2012 range seems to us to be more accurate than ever.

Performance? Avira claims to have reduced resource use this time around, but the program still leaves at least 6 extra processes running on your system, which consume anything from around 30MB to more than 220MB of RAM, depending on what they’re doing.

And there’s no whitelisting of files or smart caching schemes, so Antivirus Premium 2012 will always scan everything.  (It took around 76 minutes to scan the 100MB of files on our test PC.)

Of course, this thoroughness might be why it also catches more malware than most of the competition. And the good news is that better use of prioritization in the 2012 edition means the program doesn’t tie up your system, even when it’s scanning. CPU use is rarely more than 10 percent; we were able to use fairly heavyweight programs — including games like Civilization V, for instance — during a scan without their being noticeably affected; and boot and application load times were only minimally affected by Avira’s protective shields.

Premium Features

While full system scans can take a while, Avira offers many faster options, with profiles to scan just removable drives, your running processes, Documents folder, or whatever folders you like.  A capable scheduler means you can run any of these tasks daily, weekly, at some other defined interval, or on system logon: it’s all very flexible. And this version now protects your HOSTS file from modification, too, a welcome addition, if one which really should have been included all along.

You’d get all of that with Avira’s Free Antivirus, of course, but Antivirus Premium 2012 does have some useful additions of its own.

There’s built-in behavior monitoring, for instance, which gives the program a chance of detecting even brand new and previously undiscovered threats.

Mail protection scans incoming emails, detecting and removing malicious attachments before they can do any damage; it worked faultlessly on our test PC.

Web protection does a reasonable job of keeping you safe from malicious sites, blocking 80 percent of our test URLs.  HTTP content is analysed for suspect content, drive-by downloads are blocked, and as this all happens at the protocol level (now with support for both IPv4 and IPv6) it’ll work with any browser, no annoying toolbars required.

And if you have problems with any of this, then the new Live Support feature allows an Avira engineer to connect to your system across the web (courtesy of some customised TeamViewer technology) and manually solve any problems. This isn’t as smooth as you might think; you must manually download and run the appropriate tool, then call Avira on the phone and pass them the ID and password they’ll need to make a connection.  Still, it’s another option, and if it helps you solve only one really tricky issue, ever, then you’ll think it’s well worth having.

This may not be quite enough for Avira to win over many new converts, it’s true: if you’re looking for something fast and lightweight, in particular, then there are better alternatives to Antivirus Premium 2012.

But if you’re an Avira fan already, then there’s plenty to like here. The new Avira Free Antivirus is thorough, accurate and flexible.  And if you’re not going to be using any other security packages then Avira’s Antivirus Premium 2012 adds some essential extras, particularly the behaviour monitoring and web protection components: it’s capable, effective, and will do a good job of keeping your PC safe from harm.

The software is available for Windows XP, Vista, 7, both 32 and 64-bit editions and retails for $30.

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Of the accounts that were compromised, Yahoo webmail accounted for 27 percent and Facebook made up nearly 23 percent. Gmail represented 19 percent and Windows Live accounted for 15 percent of compromised accounts.

The study reveals that more than half (54 percent) of the compromised accounts were used by hackers to send spam and one in eight were used to send in fake distress email scams, asking friends and relatives to wire funds to a foreign country.

However, as per Commtouch’s report, when it came to recovering the account from the hackers control, nearly 23 percent did nothing. About 65 percent changed their passwords to fix the hacked accounts. And 31 percent ran antivirus software to address the problem.

PC Advisor quoted Commtouch’s chief technology officer Amir Lev as saying, “Commtouch’s poll reveals that more than two-thirds of all compromised accounts are used to send spam and scams.” “This is not surprising, as cybercriminals can improve their email delivery rates by sending from trusted domains such as Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail, and enhance their open and click-through rates by sending from familiar senders,” noted Lev.

As a precautionary measure, Commtouch advised web users to use hard-to-guess unique passwords for each online account, as well asked users to think carefully before clicking links on Facebook. Lastly, the study warns that never respond to a request for your password, no matter how official or  urgent the email looks.

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A feature of the TS-1079 Pro I was trying to test is QNAP’s MyCloudNAS, essentially a custom Dynamic DNS service for QNAP products. Through a “wizard” accessed on the QNAP device you select a subdomain of MyCloudNAS.com and, if that is available, which services you want to be visible from the Internet.

These services can include both or either unsecured (HTTP) and secured (HTTPS) access to Web-based device administration and file management services, as well as a Web, multimedia streaming, FTP, Telnet, SSH, SFTP and RSync servers.

And if all of that isn’t enough for you, you can also install any of QNAP’s Qpkg applications. Qpkg is a software package management system similar to Linux package managers such as yum and dpkg but, claims QNAP, “QPKG is designed and fine-tuned for running on embedded Linux systems.”

Among the packages available under Qpkg are the XMail SMTP server, the Gallery image management application, a terrific systems performance measurement package called iStat (which I’ll discuss in a future Gearhead), OpenLDAP, the Tomcat Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages server, the Asterisk IP telephony system, the Python subsystem, the WordPress blog app, the Joomla content management system and the SqueezeBox streaming audio server.

Anyway, as I discussed last week, after wrestling with a definitely subpar DSL gateway that AT&T had supplied that not only didn’t support UPnP but also couldn’t be coerced into port forwarding for devices it didn’t “see” on the network, I swapped it out for a D-Link DSL-520B ADSL2 gateway and, voila! The QNAP MyCloudNAS wizard found the gateway, used UPnP to configure port forwarding, and everything was running without any fuss.

I tested remote access via MyCloudNAS to the TS-1079 Pro by logging in from a PC in my son’s house down in the San Fernando Valley using Teamviewer 6 (an excellent product), and then launching a browser and connecting to the MyCloudNAS subdomain I’d set up. It worked perfectly! I’m not used to things working quite so painlessly.

Of course, MyCloudNAS might not be everyone’s first choice for Dynamic DNS so the TS-1079 Pro also supports a number of other DDNS services, including dyndns.com and no-ip.com.

As for what else the TS-1079 Pro can do, that is one long list. Beyond delivering really speedy NAS service and running a wide range of applications, the device also provides backup services including Rsync and Time Machine, media serving, IP camera video storage, RADIUS authentication and Syslog service, and antivirus service.

Source:  www.networkworld.com

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This forces the user to make a decision or in far too many cases, to put off the decision because they aren’t really sure if they should stick with the protection they have or switch.Not making a decision and letting your protection expire is the worst possible scenario as new types of malware that you will no longer be protected against are discovered every day.

Unfortunately, the majority of the computers that we see for service that are badly infected with malware have expired antivirus that the owner was meaning to get renewed.

In my opinion, there is no such thing as ‘the best’ antivirus program, even though most every antivirus program on the market has been rated ‘the best’ by one testing lab or another.

The reality is, that no matter what you choose to use as protection, none of them can protect you from everything because the bad guys have the upper hand.

Those with malicious intent are constantly cooking up new threats that they can test against today’s most popular antivirus programs until they find a way to sidestep them, which is why what you do on the Internet is far more important than what you have for protection.
As far as the various ratings that you can find on the Internet, I rarely put much stock in any of them because they are all flawed in one way or another. Some test by throwing a lot of old virus code that’s no longer in the wild at programs that are focused on today’s real threats, which results in lower ratings.

Others clearly have a vested interest from an advertising standpoint to make certain products look good, especially those rating systems that offer to sell you the products that they rate the highest.

Even if you could find ‘THE BEST’ program today, it wouldn’t be the best for long, because the threat landscape is constantly changing.
To underscore this, in 20 years of installing antivirus for our customers, what we install changes on a regular basis based on a number of criteria that go beyond the level of protection.

We look at the tradeoff between protection and what performance impact that it may have on the computer. Older computers that try to run today’s full-fledged protection suites will likely bog down noticeably because they lack the processing power needed to carry the load.

Another big criterion for us is whether the program will bombard the user with advertising compelling them to install unnecessary additional software, which is one of the downsides to many of the free programs.

There are actually three options for anyone that finds themselves in this position; renew the existing, buy a different program or move to a free program.

The easiest option is to simply renew what you have to avoid uninstalling the existing software, installing the new program and getting familiar with how it works.

The downside to this option is that you may miss the opportunity to move to a more comprehensive or complete protection package, especially if your usage and behavior have changed over the past year, or your older computer may not powerful enough to handle the latest update.

If you have a trusted tech resource, have them review your current protection package, discuss any issues you’ve had over the past year and take into consideration the age of your computer. You also need to consider any future users that may come into play, especially younger users that tend to click on anything that pops up on the screen (they require more pro-active security, not basic scan and detect protection).

Many antivirus companies have transitioned from the old scan and detect process that most ratings are based on and developed newer, more sophisticated predictive detection processes to combat the constant cat and mouse game that is the status quo.

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In October 2011, the suite had its first major update in four years with the release of the Endpoint Security for Windows 8.0 module. This added one particularly significant new feature: reputation-based protection using Kaspersky’s cloud-based Security Network. (This is already included Kaspersky’s consumer security products.) The update also replaced Kaspersky’s Administration Kit management software with a new Management Center module.

At the heart of the Business Space Security lies Kaspersky’s virus signature protection. Peter Beardmore, Kaspersky’s senior director of Product Marketing, said the company uses “category-based” signatures that recognize patterns in suspect code, not just particular code strings. This enables the antivirus engine to spot whole types or categories of malware, so that it can detect a virus even if the code has been modified slightly to evade standard antivirus signatures.

The product also offers behavioral protection, or heuristics, but Beardmore says that Kaspersky’s works in a different way to most competitors. That’s because the software can analyze an application’s behavior to spot suspicious activities When it finds such behaviors it can continue to let the application run while preventing the suspicious behavior from happening.

“This provides a much more satisfactory experience for users rather than just interrupting the application and shutting it down,” said Beardmore. Typical of many other AV suites, before a new application runs Kaspersky’s software can also execute the application in an isolated “sandbox” to determine its capabilities. If the security software decides that the application is potentially malicious it can shut it down, warn the user, or apply heuristics to the application when it runs.

Cloud based intel

Cloud-based information gathering networks are becoming a vital weapon in the fight against malware, so and integration of the Kaspersky Security Network into Business Space Security brings it on a par with rival products from Symantec, Trend Micro and others.

Kaspersky calls its reputation protection Kaspersky Urgent Detection System, and it works by flagging up known malware and sources of malware so that they can be blocked before anything malicious gets executed.

“Previously we would identify new malware in honeypots, create signatures and put them on our update servers. It would take two hours before they would be protecting our endpoints,” said Beardmore. “With the Urgent Detection System we put signatures in our cloud-based database and the time-to-protection has now been reduced to about 40 seconds.”

Since new viruses or malware sources do most of their damage in the first two hours after launch, this can make a significant difference to security, Beardmore added.

App Control is another new feature, giving control over the behavior of applications running on a system. Every application gets a security rating — trusted, untrusted, or one of two intermediate ratings — based on information gleaned from the application itself and from information stored on Kaspersky’ Security Network.

“The software then applies a policy to each security rating, so more aggressive behavior monitoring is applied to untrusted application than to trusted ones,” said Beardmore. “This can significantly improve the performance of trusted applications.”

Another feature, App Startup Control, prevents unwanted or malicious applications from starting up at all. The feature uses an application blacklist created locally — perhaps containing peer to peer file sharing applications — as well as applications blacklisted on the Security Network. Kaspersky claims to have around 3 billion blacklisted files as well as 300 million white listed ones.

The software also monitors applications running on a system for known vulnerabilities, and any vulnerable applications are flagged up in the Kaspersky Control Center Software.

One of the problems of malware is the damage that it can do to a system’s operating system, and Kaspersky’s System Watcher feature, which has already been incorporated into the company’s consumer products, aims to provide a way to fix this. Essentially, it logs the behavior of applications running on a system and tries to recognize malicious behavior. If it spots any then it has the capability to roll back changes such as alterations to the registry that the malware may have made.

The Business Space Security suite also includes Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Smartphones, which provides encryption, antivirus protection and remote locking, device wiping and GPS tracking for Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile And Symbian S60 smartphones. The software can be deployed by administrators over the air or when individual smartphones are connected to endpoint PCs, and is managed from Kaspersky Management Center.

Kaspersky bundles in several other capabilities to provide administrators with control over endpoint users’ activities. These include:

USB device control – USB devices can be banned selectively. For example, all USB devices except secure flash drives issued by administrators (recognized by their individual serial numbers) can be banned

Web control – web usage can be controlled by time of day, and individual URLS or URL categories (such as webmail or adult sites) can be blacklisted.

Source:  www.esecurityplanet.com

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“We listen to our partners,” says LabTech CEO Matt Nachtrab. “Addressing their business pressures and increasing their profitability is our goal when we develop any new versions of LabTech.”

LabTech 2011.2 includes such new features as:

* Direct Tunneling — An IP tunnel from the technician Control Center console to any system under management.  This enables LabTech technicians to streamline connectivity, improving first call resolution rates, performance of troubleshooting utilities, and overall service quality.

* Multi-Vendor Antivirus Management Dashboard — Through a centralized interface, solutions providers can control multiple antivirus vendor products across all managed customers sites.

* Agent Deployment Dashboard — Global interface enabling MSPs to view deployment status and push failure messaging and systems without agents for coverage details.

* StorageCraft Backup Management Dashboard — New centralized dashboard provides real-time StorageCraft ShadowProtect stats at a glance, making it easier to view all backup job statuses and administer backup jobs across of all ShadowProtect-enabled systems.

* Improved and Enhanced Reports — New customer requested reports and consolidated multiple reports for better visibility of KPIs.  Some of the most requested reports include executive summaries, status reporting, configuration, and inventory stats.

* Optimized Quick Connect Function — Web portal Quick Connect feature establishes connection with managed service provider’s Control Center without the need for installing agents.

* Hardware Inventory Improvements — System management BIOS (SMBIOS) can be used to obtain detailed hardware types, capabilities, operational status, installation date, asset tag ID, and other information about system components on a PC.  This information can be used in various ways to help manage, support or purchase replacement components for client sites.

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“The speeds are much increased, but it’s not just about speeds, said Kellman Meghu, Regional Security Engineering manager for Canada. “It’s turning on features and functions without fear the whole box will fall over.

“We are at that stage now where even a small office wants high performance and a lot of functionality,” Meghu said. “People are taking on more and more functionality in the firewalls, and the expectation is they require much higher capacity. DLP, for instance, is expected now. We’ve been building towards this for a while.”

The eight models in this line (the largest of which was announced earlier, in August) come in small office, enterprise, and data center flavors.

The small office models include the 2200 Appliance and the 4200 appliance. The 2200 is a branch and small office solution in an enterprise-grade desktop package reaching 3 Gbps firewall performance, 2 Gbps IPS throughput and 114 SPUs, at under $4000.

“At that price, it’ s an excellent price-performance value, and in the Canadian market it’s a real sweet spot that addresses the needs of most companies,” Meghu said.

The 4200 Appliance is an entry-level enterprise security appliance with the same specs, in addition to a variety of copper and fiber connectivity options.

Two models fall within the enterprise grouping, and Meghu noted that they are both small form factor appliances that don’t need big racks. The 4600 Appliance achieves 374 SPUs, 9 Gbps of firewall performance and 4 Gbps IPS throughput, providing four times higher performance than other solutions in the same price range. The 4800 Appliance achieves up to 623 SPU, 11 Gbps of firewall performance and 6 Gbps IPS throughput for outstanding multi-blade performance with 10 Gb fiber connectivity options

The data center models include the 12200 Appliance, a 1U appliance reaching 738 SPU, 15 Gbps firewall performance and 8 Gbps IPS throughput with optional system redundancy of power supply and hard drives. In addition, the 12200 supports Check Point VSX with up to 10 virtual systems. The 12400 Appliance achieves 1,046 SPUs, 25 Gbps of firewall performance and 12 Gbps IPS throughput, providing three times the performance and double the port density than other solutions in the same price range. Check Point’s 12400 Appliance supports Check Point VSX with up to 50 virtual systems.

The 12600 Appliance is a larger data center-grade security appliance model, which achieves up to 1,861 SPUs, 30 Gbps firewall performance and 17 Gbps for IPS throughput. The 12600 also allows customers to support up to 150 virtual systems with Check Point VSX.

Finally, the 21400 Appliance, which was announced in August, is the high end data carrier product, a 2U data center solution that combines high-speed networking technologies with lightning fast firewall throughput of up to 100 Gbps, IPS throughput of up to 21 Gbps and 2,900 SPUs. The 21400 also includes high port density of up to 37 ports or 12 10GbE ports, enabling customers to easily secure highly-segmented network environments. The 21400 also allows customers to support up to 250 virtual systems with Check Point VSX.

“The 21400 comes with 50Gbps now, with an add-on card for 100 Gbps next year,” Menghu said.

“The way data is snowballing, these increases in performance indicate the way the whole industry is going to have to move,” Menghu said. “For partners, these represent the top of the line in terms of performance, the fastest firewalls out there.”

But Meghu said that’s only part of the story for partners.

“The focus on speed sometimes gets away from what we are doing out there,” he said. “These are engineering discussions. The focus should be on security, the functions, the features, the core goals of security infrastructures that these models address. Those are more important than feeds and speeds discussions.”

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