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Active Virus Shield is a free service from AOL that protects your pc from viruses and spywares. It uses Kaspersky Advanced detection technology to help stop known and new viruses, spyware and other malware before they attack you. It has all the features of a commercial anti-virus; always-on, automatically checks for updates every hour- providing real-time scanning and protection against virus threats. Easy-to-install, works with most Windows® operating systems. (Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP & Vista).

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Trend Micro OS Protection is a security enhancement package for Windows Vista users running Trend Micro Internet Security. This package provides two enhancements: Firewall Booster and Pre-Startup Scan. Firewall Booster allows Trend Micro Internet Security to take advantage of the capabilities of the Windows Vista firewall. It enhances your protection against Web threats and unauthorized access. Most security threats, like many programs, run on Windows. Pre-Startup Scan finds and eliminates viruses and spyware before Windows starts – before these threats can affect your computer and thwart attempts to remove them.

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Symantec has released the public beta of a new security application called Norton AntiBot, which protects your PC from being hijacked. Some of the features of Norton AntiBot include: Actively and continuously monitors your PC’s applications and processes 24 X 7 so you’re always protected; Thoroughly removes detected bots and malware and their related components, custom installation files and registry settings; Strengthens any security product by providing an additional layer of protection against bots and other emerging threats.

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Ad-Aware Personal is one of the most popular anti-spyware product for windows pc. It’s a free anti-spyware version which provides you with advanced protection against spyware that secretly attaches and takes control of your computer, resulting in aggressive advertising pop-ups, sluggish computer activity, even identity theft through stolen bank details, passwords, and credit card account numbers. Some of the key features of Ad-ware Personal are user-controlled spyware removal, customizable scans, code sequence identification (CSI) technology, extensive Lavasoft Detection Database, ADS scan, blocks browser hijackers and quarantine manager.

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Sophos Anti-Virus is a complete anti-virus solution with network functionality at its core. It’s proactive protection delivers a complete defense against viruses, spyware, adware and potentially unwanted applications across the widest range of platforms of any vendor. It was designed specifically for the corporate network and offers an easily updated, flexible business solution for managing the complexity of networks from small local area networks to large multi-server, multi-platform WANs. Updates are constantly available and technical support, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year is included in all licences. Sophos Anti-Virus is available for all popular desktop and network operating systems (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux/Unix and Netware), protecting laptops, workstations and servers.

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SurfControl solutions provide continuous protection against the Web, e-mail and desktop-based threats, from viruses and phishing attacks to inappropriate use of system resources to regulatory non-compliance. In providing this protection, it offers you the choice of where in your network environment you want to deploy these solutions: on the desktop, on the network (as software or an appliance), or in the Internet cloud. By implementing solutions through layered deployments, you yield tremendous savings in network resources, bandwidth and overall administration, while ensuring that your unique security and compliance requirements are most efficiently met. Websense is another popular solutions that provides similar service except the email filtering.

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The FortiGate-50B, 60-series, 100A, 200A and 300A model Multi-Threat Security systems are the ultimate all-in-one, network-based solution to protect smaller deployments from blended threats. These easy-to-deploy and easy-to-administer systems deliver exceptional value and performance for small offices, home offices, small and medium sized businesses and branch office applications. With a complete complement of security services - including firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, antivirus, web filtering, and traffic shaping - a wide range of organizations can now enjoy complete protection from the most damaging threats without penalties in performance, cost, or manageability. With models ranging in throughput from 30Mbps to 200Mbps, FortiGate-50B, 60-series, 100A, 200A and 300A can enable organizations to stay connected and protected against network-based threats. Sonicwall and Netscreen also offer all-in-one hardware firewalls for SMEs.

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WatchGuard firewall and VPN appliances deliver the complete unified threat management (UTM), with built-in zero day protection, good performance, ease of use, and value for your growing network. The fully integrated security services give continually updated, multifaceted network protection from spyware, spam, viruses, worms, trojans, Web-based exploits, and blended threats. Watchguard firewalls run security-hardened Linux-based operating system and their gateway anti-virus is powered by ClamAV.

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MessageLabs is one of the industry-leading services to guard against email threats such as viruses, spam, identity theft and targeted blackmail campaigns – all of which jeopardize business continuity, regulatory compliance, reputation and brand. You need no extra hardware or software to use the service. Messagelabs guarantees 100% protection against viruses, known and unknown. Messagelabs email service provides Email Protect (Multi-layered anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-phishing email services), Email Control (Content control, image filtering and advanced email management services), Email Secure (Fully managed guaranteed boundary-to-boundary email encryption services) and Email Recover (Fully managed archiving service guarantees secure storage of corporate email).

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MacScan is an anti-spyware package for Macintosh computers. It is designed to detect, isolate and remove spyware, keystroke loggers, trojan horses, and bring awareness to remote administration applications which could have been maliciously or inadvertently installed on your Macintosh. MacScan is available for Mac OS X containing the latest definitions for spyware. MacScan has added a blacklisted cookie scanner. This feature maintains a list of known tracking cookies, and when run, removes them from web browsers in which they are found. No more loosing saved usernames and passwords to websites when you want to clean your cookies. You can download and try fully-functional 15 day demo version before buying it.

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