AVG AntiVirus provides a free for personal use virus scanner under a business model of prevention being key to protection and selling more advanced features and services. This virus protection is basic under the free model, the Pro version adds high speed downloads and Multiple Languages; and the Internet Security version adds Anti-Spam, Spyware and firewall to its abilities.
There’s no such thing as New Year in the virus world. Statistics for January show that the malware and potential malicious programs in circulation are remarkably similar to those in last month’s rankings.
For the second month in a row, representatives of the new Trojan-Downloader family Diehard have been creating a considerable stir in mail traffic.
When MessageLabs, an information security company who specializes in scanning for viruses and other various cyber threats, was challenged with the proposition of communicating the severity of these digital parasites, they turned to Romanian artist, Alex Dragulescu to developed images that showed what the threats look like graphically. Using the actual code provided by MessageLabs from each of the threats, Dragulescu created images that fell into one of six different categories: viruses, phis
