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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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Norton Smartphone Security Premier Edition (Beta) keeps your Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC, and Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone based smartphones safe. It offers: Antivirus protection: Symantec’s award-winning antivirus technology has been applied to smartphones to protect against mobile malware. AntiSpam for SMS: SMS spam messages are automatically placed in spam folder or deleted. Firewall: Controls inbound and outbound network traffic on the smartphone. Personal Data Protection: Automatically encrypt My Documents on logout. Device Password Protection: Require a password before accessing the smartphone and self-service password reset is done via a challenge question.

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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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Mirapoint’s RazorGate® email security appliance delivers unparalleled multi-layered protection from spam, virus and hacker attacks. It provides real-time updates to reduce the window of vulnerability resulting in airtight security at the edge of the network. The appliance form factor makes it easy to deploy with minimal ongoing administration. RazorGate features include simple design for deployment in minutes, unique MailHurdle™ connection management technology blocks 60-80% of threats at the edge, multi-layered spam protection yields 98% catchrates with virtually zero false positives, integrated, industry-leading RAPID zero hour virus engine, unique wiretap capability that is transparent to end-users, secure, hardened operating system with no known exploits, integrated mail routing and queue management, proven 99.999% reliability with redundant hardware components for increased reliability (available on the RG350 and RG500).

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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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Your browser can be a very powerful weapon, with FireCAT. Security-Database.com team has released a new Firefox Framework Map collection of the most useful security oriented extensions. It’s called the framework FireCAT. It stands for FireFox Catalog of Auditing Toolbox. It is based upon a paper Turning firefox to an ethical hacking platform. This initial release is presented as a mindmap and the Security-Database.com team is open to all your suggestions to make it a really good framework for all the community of security auditors and ethical hackers.

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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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SME Server is an open-source Linux server distribution based on CentOS. It is a secure and out-of-the-box Server/Gateway solution. Installation and basic configuration of SME Server takes less than 20 minutes, and every configuration option can be set via a web-based interface. SME Server only includes what is necessary, which translates into the entire ISO being less than 450MB. Stability comes from using proven, supported rpm packages and from an update system that notifies you with available updates. SME Server already has everything necessary to provide the core services most people need to network Linux, Macintosh, and Windows systems. It includes preconfigured Email Server (with anti-virus and anti-spam), Web Server, DNS Server, File Server, Print Server and Internet Gateway (Proxy, Router and simple Firewall).

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