Showing posts with label Antivirus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antivirus. Show all posts
Norton products now "timeless"
After five months of public testing Symantec has released the final versions of Norton AntiVirus, Norton Internet Security and Norton 360. What strikes first: the manufacturer markets the products either with a date or with the version number - like McAfee competitor in the OEM sector.
All three programs give Norton now in a simpler look, the tile design is to facilitate the use of touch screens. For experienced users, however, remains the "Advanced View" on the protection functions can manage the details. The blinking like a Christmas tree world map of the latest versions is finally history, the program window but still rotates around its own axis in order to show the performance view.
Generation of Norton products to better protect users against clickjacking and phishing attacks on social networks, "Scam Insight" to prevent the theft of passwords and banking information. Internet Security and Norton 360, a new "smart" firewall that is now no longer based solely on URLs, but also analyzes the underlying IP addresses.
Even if the new versions of Symantec as "versionslos" marketed, the program is still quite low, however its development. After Norton 2011 was actually version 18 and Norton 2012 at the Info dialog wore the version 19, the latest version wears consequently the version number 20 The online installer installs first revision 20.1.0.24; LiveUpdate updates the engine afterwards to 20.1.1.2. After applying the update Norton claims it, the computer must be restarted now. In reality, Norton finished only themselves and all associated processes. In one case, for example, the shell (explorer.exe) is restarted, so that all the icons disappeared briefly and reappeared. A computer restart is required only if Norton can not stop the other processes.
An ugly train from Norton? is that it installed without asking the browser toolbar "Norton Identity Safe" for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. It includes both a password store and its own search window and a Facebook button. The creation of the Identity Safe can not disable under the installation options of the setup program. Rather, one must remove the Identity Safe subsequently "Uninstall a program" about what is necessary to restart the computer.
The price recommended by the manufacturer, according to Norton AntiVirus costs 30 Euro, 40 Euro Norton Internet Security and Norton 360 60 euro (each for one PC and one year). Existing customers can download on the site from 80 to 140 MB of test versions of the software (NAV, NIS, N360), the current versions accept existing license key.
Zeus Trojan attacks intensified on mTANs
The procedure is basically still the same as its predecessors: the starting point of an infection of the smartphone is infected with the Zeus Trojan (Windows) PC. The discharged into the open for online banking web site, for example, type a message that would have to secure the smartphones where new certificates will be installed. The alleged certificates or security updates are available via download or even sent directly via MMS to the phone number entered by the user. Once installed on the phone directs the Trojans secretly, but the app SMS messages with the mTANs of a number abroad continue, with the current versions in Sweden.
The new Trojan versions for Android and Blackberry - Kaspersky speaks of "Zeus in the Mobile," short ZitMo - apparently serve mainly to the systematic development of the functionality. Still it lags slightly behind the Android version that Windows Mobile, Symbian and Blackberry behind (an iPhone counterpart has not been sighted). It shall not appear to selectively mTAN only the messages of the bank, but all text message to the Lord and Master more
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