BitDefender Total Security 2009

BitDefender Total Security 2009 provides comprehensive proactive protection against all Internet security threats, along with system maintenance and backup, without slowing down your PCs.

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Confidently download, share and open files from friends, family, co-workers – and even total strangers!

• Improved: Scans all web, e-mail and instant messaging traffic for viruses and spyware, in real-time
• Proactively protects against new virus outbreaks using advanced heuristics

Protect your identity: shop, bank, listen, watch privately and securely

• Blocks attempted identity theft (phishing)
• Improved: Prevents personal information from leaking via e-mail, web or instant messaging

Guard your conversations with top-of-the line encryption

• ^NEWInstant Messaging Encryption
• ^NEWFile Vault securely stores personal information or sensitive files
• Backs up files and folders locally
• ^NEWProvides secure on-line storage

Connect securely to any network at home, in the office or away

• Automatically modifies firewall protection settings to suit location
• Wi-Fi monitor helps prevent unauthorized access to your Wi-Fi network

Protect your family and their computers!

• Blocks access to inappropriate websites and e-mail
• Schedules and limits kids’ access to Internet and to applications

Play safe, play seamlessly!

• Improved: Reduces the system load and avoids requesting user interaction during games

Get fine-tuned performance from your computer !

• Uses few system resources
• ^NEWLaptop mode prolongs battery life
• Removes unnecessary duplicates of files and registry entries
• Irrecoverably erases unwanted files and “traces” of files

Features and Benefits

^NEWFamily network protection
Manage the security of your home network from a single location. BitDefender software from other computers in the network can be remotely configured, while tasks such as scans, backups tune-ups and updates can be run on-demand or scheduled to run during off-hours.

Hassle - Free Hourly Updates
Hourly updates ensure that you are protected against the latest threats without pushing a button. Lost program files are not a problem either. In the rare event of file damage due to PC problems, BitDefender automatically repairs and updates itself.

FREE 24/7 Support
Got a question? Our security experts are available to help you 24/7 via phone, email or chat at no additional cost.

Avira AntiVir Premium

Full protection
Along AntiVir Personal and AntiVir Premium, it includes: AntiSpam, Firewall, GameMode, backup, AntiBot, AntiDriveBy and more.

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Avira AntiVir Premium

Advanced protection
Along AntiVir Personal it includes: AntiSpyware, AntiAdware, AntiPhising, MailGuard (POP3 and SMTP), WebGuard for safe surfing, RescueCD and more.

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Avira AntiVir Personal - FREE Antivirus is a reliable free antivirus solution, that constantly and rapidly scans your computer for malicious programs such as viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, hoaxes, worms, dialers etc. Monitors every action executed by the user or the operating system and reacts promptly when a malicious program is detected. Avira AntiVir Personal is a comprehensive, easy to use antivirus program, designed to offer reliable free of charge virus protection to home-users, for personal use only, and is not for business or commercial use. Available for Windows or UNIX.

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Kaspersky Internet Security 2009

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 – the all-in-one security solution that offers a worry-free computing environment for you and your family.

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 has everything you need for a safe and secure Internet experience.

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Essential Protection

• Protects from viruses, Trojans and worms
• Blocks spyware and adware
• Scans files in real time (on access) and on demand
• Scans email messages (regardless of email client)
• Scans Internet traffic (regardless of browser)
• Protects instant messengers (ICQ, MSN)
• Provides proactive protection from unknown threats
• Scans Java and Visual Basic scripts

Extended Protection

• Two-way personal firewall
• Safe Wi-Fi and VPN connections
• Intrusion prevention system
• Intelligent application management and control
  • automatically configured application rules
  • security rating is assigned to unknown applications
  • access to the user’s resources and data is restricted for unknown applications

Preventive Protection

• Scans operating system and installed applications for vulnerabilities
• Analyzes and closes Internet Explorer vulnerabilities
• Disables links to malware sites
• Detects viruses based on the packers used to compress code
• Global threat monitoring (Kaspersky Security Network)

Advanced Protection & Recovery

• The program can be installed on infected computers
• Self-protection from being disabled or stopped
• Restores correct system settings after removing malicious software
• Tools for creating a rescue disk

Data & Identity Theft Protection

• Disables links to fake (phishing) websites
• Blocks all types of keyloggers
• Virtual keyboard is provided for safely entering logins and passwords
• Prevents the theft of data exchanged via secure connections (HTTPS / SSL)
• Blocks unauthorized dial-up connections
• Cleans up any traces of user activity (deletes temporary files, cookies etc.)

Content Filtering

• Parental control
• Improved antispam protection (plugins for Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, The Bat!, Thunderbird)
• Blocks banners on web pages

Usability

• Automatic configuration during installation
• Wizards for common tasks
• Visual reports with charts and diagrams
• Alerts provide all the information necessary for informed user decisions
• Automatic or interactive mode
• Round-the-clock technical support
• Automatic database updates

Symantec Norton 360 version 2.0

• PC security defends you against a broad range of online threats—protects your computer and makes your online experience more secure.
• Identity protection safeguards you against online identity theft—protects against fraud and theft. IMPROVED
• Automatic backup and restore protects your important files from loss—safeguards irreplaceable photos, movies, music, and more. IMPROVED
• PC tuneup keeps your PC running at peak performance—helps your PC run faster and keeps it running the way it’s supposed to.
• Network monitoring—helps protect your home network. NEW

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• Enhanced performance—Provides industry-leading protection without sacrificing performance:
  • Fast scan and browse speeds
  • Less memory use than the average used by competing products
  • PC Security with industry leading virus, spyware and firewall protection
• Identity Safe—Protects your personal information and your identity when you buy, bank, and browse online: NEW
  • Blocks fraudulent Web sites and verifies trusted ones
  • Conveniently and securely manages user names and passwords for you
  • Phishing Protection guards online attempts to steal your personal information by blocking fraudlent websites and verifies trusted ones.
• Backup and restore:
  • Protects photos, music, and documents with automated backup
  • Supports new backup destinations including Blu-ray Disc, HD-DVD, and iPod
  • Automatically detects and backs up your critical files
  • Includes 2 GB of secured online storage (with option to purchase additional storage)*
• Network monitoring:
  • Lets you view your wireless network and each device connected to it
  • Displays the security status of all the Norton products on your network
  • Alerts you when you connect to an unsecured wireless network
• Browser Protection—Protects against Web-based drive-by downloads that use vulnerabilities in your browser to insert malware on your PC
• Easy protection of your PC and online activities—Norton 360 threat handling, scans, and tuneups are conducted quietly in the background:
  • Automatically optimizes and maintains your PC for peak performance
  • Automatically cleans up unnecessary Internet clutter and temporary files
  • Helps optimize Windows® performance by removing unneeded registry files
• One-click support—Provides one-click access to expert support right from your Norton product:
  • Fast access to expert support through email, live chat, or phone
• Protection updates—Includes protection updates and new product features as available throughout the renewable service period†
• Ongoing protection—Keeps your computer protected from the latest Internet risks by automatically renewing your subscription at the regular subscription price (plus applicable tax), so you don’t have to do it. For more information, click here.
• Optional antispam and parental controls—Enables you to download antispam and parental controls via the Norton™ Add-on Pack
• Free Technical Support —NEW! Free tech support delivers the help you need, however you need it.**

McAfee Total Protection 2009

• Safe Search & Surf
• SiteAdvisor Plus
• Always Updating
• Stops Viruses
• Halts Hackers
• Blocks Spyware
• Improves PC Health
• Secures Your Identity
• Prevents Spam & Email Scams
• Protects Children Online
• Backs Up & Restores Files
• Network Monitoring

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Safe Search & Surf

McAfee Total Protection adds safety ratings to web sites and search engine results based on comprehensive spam, adware, and online scam safety tests. SiteAdvisor analyzes the results and rates web sites in detail for unsafe or annoying practices such as dangerous downloads, spamming, misuse of personal information and browser hijacking. When searching with Google, Yahoo! or MSN, SiteAdvisor provides easy-to-understand safety ratings—red (danger), yellow (use caution) or green (safe)—that appear next to search results, helping you make informed decisions.

McAfee SiteAdvisor Plus

McAfee SiteAdvisor Plus extends safety ratings to the links in emails and instant messages, and blocks your PC from visiting dangerous web sites with a “protected-mode” option.

Always Updating

McAfee Total Protection continuously and automatically delivers the latest software updates and upgrades so you are never under-protected or overwhelm by ever-evolving and emerging online threats.

Stops Viruses

McAfee Total Protection automatically guards your PC from viruses, mass-mailing worms, backdoor Trojans and more. It also automatically cleans or quarantines infections with minimal interruption. Other built-in features include:

• McAfee SystemGuards watch for activity that may signal a virus, spyware or hacker is on your PC
• Always active detection that watches key system, Windows, host file and browser settings for suspicious changes such as DNS poisoning (a.k.a. pharming, which can redirect browsers to fraudulent web sites) or activity that can compromise anti-virus security
• McAfee X-Ray for Windows removes dangerous root-kits and other malware that can hide deep in your operating system

Halts Hackers

Constant inbound and outbound monitoring helps McAfee deter hackers, identity thieves and malware programs from robbing data, hijacking your system (e.g., to send spam) or planting viruses that can compromise privacy over dial-up or broadband. Fast “load and go” setup, customizable security levels, visual tracing, smart alerts, full screen mode and intelligent application handling help fine tune security, identify the source of threats and block suspect programs from “phoning home” personal information. Other built-in features include:

• Stealth Mode helps hide your presence online, making your system practically invisible to global hackers.
• HotSpot detection automatically elevates McAfee firewall security when you are not on your trusted network.
• Boot-time protection shields your system from unauthorized connections before security programs are fully load.

Blocks Spyware

McAfee’s spyware protection detects, blocks, and removes spyware, adware, and other suspicious programs before they can steal log-ins and passwords (key-loggers), hijack your dial-up connection (Web dialers), track online surfing (cookies) or flood your surfing with annoying pop-up ads. Better protection based on new integrated anti-virus, anti-spyware engine. Now also detects and blocks tracking cookies.

Improves PC Health

McAfee SecurityCenter’s dashboard-like display helps you at a glance review your PC’s security status and modify it with one-click. You can also easily check for updates, fix potential security issues or view settings in basic or advanced modes.

With built-in McAfee QuickClean technology, McAfee Total Protection helps optimize your PC’s performance, eliminating drive-clogging “Internet build-up” (e.g., temp files, cached files, file remnants, Active X code), unused programs and other unnecessary clutter to free up valuable disk space. It also features a network map that shows the security status of your home network

Secures Your Identity

McAfee Total Protection helps secure personal identification and financial information (e.g., name, phone, credit card, bank account numbers) from transmission over the Internet without permission. Featuring McAfee Shredder, sensitive files can be permanently deleted so as not to compromise your privacy.

McAfee’s anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall and anti-spam security work together as a multi-layered shield against multi-faceted identity theft threats that may use a combination of malware to steal files, financial log-ins and other personally identity information. The suite also includes Password Vault, which safely stores Web login-ins, passwords and other personally identifiable information in a secure, password-protected, easy-to-access location.

Prevents Spam & Email Scams

McAfee Total Protection automatically recognizes and helps stop junk email—including identity and credit card scams, virus hoaxes and foreign language spam—from polluting your inboxes while letting trusted email through. Timely anti-spam filter updates ensure that you have the latest protection against spammers. More accurate spam detection, filtering and blocking with fewer false positives (email accidentally labeled spam).

Protects Children Online

McAfee Total Protection helps shield each family member from inappropriate Web content, online predators and chat using age-specific adjustable settings and easy-to-use filtering options. Also, the suite features McAfee ImageAnalyzer that protects children from viewing offensive images online.

Backs Up & Restores Files

McAfee Total Protection provides an automated back-up feature that preserves encrypted copies of irreplaceable photos, music files, videos and documents on CD/DVD, USB or external or network drives. With one-click, you can easily retrieve these archived files.

Network Monitoring

McAfee Total Protection verifies that your home PCs have McAfee properly installed.

Panda Global Protection 2009

Enjoy optimum security and safeguard your valuable data with Panda Global Protection 2009. It protects you from viruses, spyware, rootkits, hackers, online fraud, identity theft and all other Internet threats. The anti-spam engine will keep your inbox free from junk mail while the Parental Control feature ensures your children can use the Web safely. You can also back up important files (documents, music, photos, etc.) to a CD/DVD or online and restore them in case of accidental loss or damage.

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Anti-Malware Engine

Automatically detects and eliminates viruses, spyware, Trojans, rootkits, bots and other malware before they infect your computer.

• Scans files in real-time and on-demand.
• Scans emails before they reach your inbox, regardless of your email program.
• Scans Internet traffic regardless of your browser type.
• Scans Instant Messaging traffic in MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and AOL.
• Removes all traces of clutter left by spyware on your PC.

Advanced Proactive Protection

Technologies from Panda Security are widely recognized as the most effective against new and unknown malware.

• Genetic Heuristic Engine combines advanced algorithms to detect new variants of the most dangerous malware families.
• TruPrevent Technologies 2.0 silently analyze the behavior of programs, blocking those that try to damage your PC. This last line of defence blocks zero-day targeted attacks and terminates any malicious activity that has evaded traditional protection systems.

Personal Firewall

Protects you against Internet-borne worms and hacker attacks.

• Smart auto-configuration allows good programs to run while blocking malicious ones.
• Shields your PC from hackers on the Web.
• Wireless Monitor protects your wireless network from intruders.
• Intrusion prevention blocks known and unknown hacker attacks and vulnerability exploits.

Anti-Phishing Filter

Recognizes fraudulent email and protects you from scams while you shop, bank or pay bills online.

Anti-Banking Trojan Engine

Detects the most dangerous identity theft malware used by cyber-criminals to steal banking credentials. Specialized heuristics and generic detection techniques ensure maximum protection for online transactions. NEW!

Anti-Rootkit Technology

Detects and removes silently-installed rootkits used by malware or hackers to evade traditional antivirus products. The free Panda Anti-Rootkit, used by millions of people around the world, recently won the Editor’s Choice award from PC Magazine. NEW!

Anti-Spam Filter

Keeps your inbox free from junk mail. With the new spam engine detection rates are now over 97%, ensuring uninterrupted service and delivering the emails you really need. NEW!

Parental Control

Lets your children browse the Internet safely by blocking access to violent, adult, or racist content, as well as other inappropriate websites. From the solution’s control panel –and regardless of the browser type- you can assign predefined filters (child, adolescent, employee…) to users or customize filter rules according to your specific needs, .

Web Filter

Lets you use the Internet safely without the risk of infections, vulnerability exploits, browser hijacking or phishing websites.By analyzing website content, links and Web reputation scores, Panda Security provides protection against all types of Web-based malware and scams. NEW!

Personal Information Filter

Prevents theft from your PC of credit card numbers, social security numbers and any other personal information you define. NEW!

Backup & Restore

Safeguards your most important files against accidental loss or damage. It prevents loss of important documents either unintentionally, or through hard disk problems or other accidents. Backup and restoration from hard drive, CD, DVD, other external media or online are both extremely simple and easy.

Premium Online Backup

To safeguard your most important files and have access to them anytime, anywhere. Backing up your most important files online ensures the integrity of your information regardless of what happens to your PC. This ultimate safety layer provides 2 gigabytes of free, secure storage for one year.  NEW!

Tune Up

Automatically finds and fixes problems in your PC and keeps your system running smoothly. It optimizes your PC performance by removing unnecessary registry entries, deleting temporary files and speeding up your hard disk.

Panda Internet Security 2009

Panda Internet Security 2009 is a security suite that lets you use the Internet with complete peace of mind. It protects you from viruses, spyware, rootkits, hackers, online fraud, identity theft and all other Internet threats. The anti-spam engine will keep your inbox free from junk mail while the Parental Control feature ensures your children can use the Web safely. And thanks to the new Collective Intelligence technology, the solution is now much faster than previous versions.

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Anti-Malware Engine

Automatically detects and eliminates viruses, spyware, Trojans, rootkits, bots and other malware before they infect your computer.

• Scans files in real-time and on-demand.
• Scans emails before they reach your inbox, regardless of your email program.
• Scans Internet traffic regardless of your browser type.
• Scans Instant Messaging traffic in MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and AOL.
• Removes all traces of clutter left by spyware on your PC.

Advanced Proactive Protection

Technologies from Panda Security are widely recognized as the most effective against new and unknown malware.

• Genetic Heuristic Engine combines advanced algorithms to detect new variants of the most dangerous malware families.
• TruPrevent Technologies 2.0 silently analyze the behavior of programs, blocking those that try to damage your PC. This last line of defence blocks zero-day targeted attacks and terminates any malicious activity that has evaded traditional protection systems.

Personal Firewall

Protects you against Internet-borne worms and hacker attacks.

• Smart auto-configuration allows good programs to run while blocking malicious ones.
• Shields your PC from hackers on the Web.
• Wireless Monitor protects your wireless network from intruders.
• Intrusion prevention blocks known and unknown hacker attacks and vulnerability exploits.

Anti-Phishing Filter

Recognizes fraudulent email and protects you from scams while you shop, bank or pay bills online.

Anti-Banking Trojan Engine

Detects the most dangerous identity theft malware used by cyber-criminals to steal banking credentials. Specialized heuristics and generic detection techniques ensure maximum protection for online transactions. NEW!

Anti-Rootkit Technology

Detects and removes silently-installed rootkits used by malware or hackers to evade traditional antivirus products. The free Panda Anti-Rootkit, used by millions of people around the world, recently won the Editor’s Choice award from PC Magazine. NEW!

Anti-Spam Filter

Keeps your inbox free from junk mail. With the new spam engine detection rates are now over 97%, ensuring uninterrupted service and delivering the emails you really need. NEW!

Parental Control

Lets your children browse the Internet safely by blocking access to violent, adult, or racist content, as well as other inappropriate websites. From the solution’s control panel –and regardless of the browser type- you can assign predefined filters (child, adolescent, employee…) to users or customize filter rules according to your specific needs, .

Web Filter

Lets you use the Internet safely without the risk of infections, vulnerability exploits, browser hijacking or phishing websites.By analyzing website content, links and Web reputation scores, Panda Security provides protection against all types of Web-based malware and scams. NEW!

Personal Information Filter

Prevents theft from your PC of credit card numbers, social security numbers and any other personal information you define. NEW!

Backup & Restore

Safeguards your most important files against accidental loss or damage. It prevents loss of important documents either unintentionally, or through hard disk problems or other accidents. Backup and restoration from hard drive, CD, DVD, other external media or online are both extremely simple and easy.