According to a recent study by Mcafee and NCSA 92% of Americans believe they are protected with Anti-Virus with definitions that have been updated within the last week.   But according to the paper, only 51% had current definitions within the last week.  They also found 36% had a disabled firewall and 45% didn’t have anti-spyware installed, and finally only 12% of Americans had anti-phishing software installed.  Anti-Spam protection came in around 21% of the users sampled.  Overall they mention less than one in four Americans are fully protected against viruses and malware.  Of the people sampled, 87% of them store important personal data like financial information, health records, resumes, and personal emails on these computers.  Yet 88% of those sampled go online for their their bank, stock trading, or personal medical information.

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It is estimated that 75% of enterprises will be infected this year with malware targeted to invade traditional defenses according to Gartner Group. 80% of enterprises have deployed some form of URL filtering, less than 15% have deployed some form of deep packet inspection. Tailor-made Trojans are being developed to penetrate YOUR organization; how are you protected against these threats?

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In a recent test, major anti-virus products were put into a lab environment and tested to see if they can be hacked using different exploits and even hardware.

Many threats today have focused on disabling anti-virus and security systems such as software firewalls. What good is running the latest and great anti-virus program when it is disabled.

This brings us to the winner of the test, our personal favorite; Kaspersky who brought in the Gold Self Protection Award successfully defending against 32 out of 33 malicious attempts to disable or other hinder the anti-virus product. Below are the top three results:

1) Kaspersky Internet Security 7

2) VBA Anti-Virus 3.11

Symantec Internet Security 2007

F-Secure Internet Security

3) ZoneAlarm Internet Security 7

Trend Micro PC-Cillin

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According to a recent press release, Kaspersky reported finding the Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah virus on brand new Maxtor 3200 Personal Storage drives sold in the Netherlands.

The virus looks around a computer searching for gaming passwords and deletes MP3 files. Kaspersky speculates these drives were some how infected during the formating process.

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Over the last eight months, the storm worm has been taking the Internet by storm, infecting over 20 million machines. Currently the authorities do not know the objectives of the worms author. A botnet of this size could cripple anything connected to the Internet.

According to Alexander Gostev, senior virus analyst at Kaspersky, international disputes are flooding the Internet and are seriously bordering on the possibility of a “cyberwar”. Currently NATO does not reconize Internet attacks are a form of military action.

128 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks were launched on Estonia’s police and government web sites back in April. This attack seems to be related to the decision to remove a monument dedicated to Soviet Soldiers. The Russian secret service was accused of launching this attack on the Estonians. The Estonian Minster of Defense, Yaak Aaviksoo has asked NATO to amend its agreeemnt on military protection to reconize the attack as a form of military action, or in other words “cyberwar”.

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As hard disks and anti-virus definition databases grow tremendously year to year, more and more people find it difficult to do full anti-virus system scans on their networks. It is fairly common for companies to do a full system scan once a week on an automated schedule.

One of the most effective ways to decrease the time to scan a machine for viruses as much as 61% is regularlly schedule defragmentation using a product such as Diskeeper. We have found regular defragmentation decreases anti-virus scan times considerably. We also have noticed considerable shorter backup windows using enterprise defragementation than without.

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