McAfee: Celebrity Searches, Screensavers Can Lead to Malware

Antivirus software manufacturer McAfee has named actress Jessica Biel the “most dangerous” celebrity online. McAfee says fans searching for Jessica Biel have a 20% chance of ending up on a website that contains malware. McAfee also says that many celebrity screensavers contain malware. Fans searching for “Jessica Biel” or “Jessica Biel downloads,””Jessica Biel wallpaper,””Jessica [...]

Comodo Internet Security Antivirus Software

Comodo Internet Security has both a firewall and an antivirus utility in its free package. While we can’t speak for the firewall’s effectiveness (we didn’t test that feature), its antivirus component leaves much to be desired. In our rankings of free antivirus software, it landed at number six, last among the chart-makers.

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Can You Trust Free Antivirus Software?

Free antivirus programs vary just as much as paid security programs do in the quality of their protection. And frugal computer users on the hunt for no-cost antivirus software–already faced with tons of options–will have even more to choose from when new free offerings from Microsoft and Panda join the programs currently available from [...]

Panda Cloud Antivirus (Beta) Free Software

Among all of the free antivirus software we tested for our latest roundup, Panda Cloud Antivirus was the best app at blocking known malware. However, its work-in-progress status and its unique methods kept us from ranking it on our free antivirus software chart.

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Alwil Avast Antivirus Home Edition

Avast Antivirus Home Edition, developed in the Czech Republic, offers capable malware detection and faster-than-average scan speed, both of which helped propel the app to the number two spot in our rankings of free antivirus software. Its clunky interface badly needs updating, however.

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