The Software Corner

Well as it is that time of year again when security vendors roll out their latest products, that everyone will take a look. Security is still a big business and money is often spent keeping your information to yourself without letting the bad guys take hold.

Previously, I have reviewed Norton Antivirus 2007 and well it did not do so well in our reviews when it came to protection. This time its the number 2 guy in the security world’s turn to be taken apart and that is McAfee Internet Security Suite.

About McAfee Internet Security Suite

This product contains the whole kitten caboodle when it comes to securing your computer. It has antivirus, firewall, anti-phishing products and much more. But does that more mean better? Well, hopefully so, but you will see in the review how I found this product.

How the product was tested

The same testing methods were used as in NAV 2007, although we did test email this time around. Also tested was parental control features (only blocking inappropriate images) and also gave popup blocking a whirl.

We also wanted to put McAfee’s SiteAdvisor to the test to see how well it can detect phishing sites and also rootkits that have been installed on the system.

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WinZip has released a beta version of their upcoming product WinZip 11.

Here are some of the added features

• Allow WinZip to select “Best Compression” automatically
• Zip .wav music files
• Extract BZ2 and RAR files (extremely overdue)
• View Thumbnails within WinZip

More Information

Homepage: WinZip.com
View: Changelog
Download:  WinZip 11 Beta

It seems that businesses in the New York area will be the first ones to be able to purchase Windows Vista and Office 2007 in tandem.

Windows Vista will first be introduced to the business market while consumers will have to wait until a later date to get their hands on these products.

More Information

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Homepage: CRN

With the amount of websites on the Internet, it is sometimes quite hard to distinguish between a legitamite website and a fraudulant one.

Opera is taking their fraud and phishing protection to the next level in the next release of the Opera browser.

The Anti-Phishing Working Group stated last month the amount of phishing websites totalled a whopping 14,191.

This technology that is being incorporated into Opera uses a database offered by GeoTrust, which was acquired by Verisign. Also users can submit whether a site is fradulant as posted on Opera’s blog.