The News Review:
- AVG Extends Availability of Free Security Software to Spanish …
- Hosted Anti-Botnet Service ensures email network security.
- SMBs Beware: Spam Levels on the Rise
AVG Extends Availability of Free Security Software to Spanish …
MarketWatch
) All told Latin America’sInternet population accounts for approximately 10 percent of all Internetusers worldwide. 0 goes beyond the protection provided by other free securityproducts to deliver just-in-time protection against “drive-by downloads” –the invisible threats that can place malware onto a computer without the userhaving taken any action at all. These threats can be hidden in any type ofwebsite and may remain on any given site for an hour a day or a week. Thetransient nature of these threats means they are impossible to track downusing conventional anti-virus or anti-spyware products. Conversely AVG’sunique LinkScanner Safe-Search protection safeguards users at the mostimportant time — when they click on a URL in a search results page. About AVG Technologies AVG is a global security solutions leader protecting more than 85 millionconsumers and small business computer users in 167 countries from theever-growing incidence of web threats viruses spam cyber-scams and hackerson the Internet.
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Hosted Anti-Botnet Service ensures email network security.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) NY
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SMBs Beware: Spam Levels on the Rise
eWeek NY
“We fully expect spam will resume in large volumes eventually. Although Hay called the shutting down of McColo the “most significant singleevent” in the fight against spam small and midsize businesses without large ITbudgets or staff are particularly susceptible to malware and spamming. MX Logic a Denver based e-mailprotection provider conducted a survey of SMBs in 2006 that found the smallerthe company the more likely it was to be vulnerable to e-mail threats. Fortunately there is a growing selection anti-virus and anti-spam technologyavailable to SMBs.