Top 5 Optimizers technical rumors

A Panda Virus that has caused widespread damage at a time when public knowledge about online security was low and caused first arrests for virus-writing in 2007 in China is now back. China’s national virus response center warned about apdated worn earlier this week, but they have only now made the connection between the new release and the old Panda Virus. The worm that is now spreading through the internet infecting html and executable files, disables users form deleteing infected files, turns off available antivirus protection and redirects webbrowser to certain website, downloading Trojan horses and other malware. It acts differently from 2006, but basics are the same, however McAfee Labs researchers say that the new variant adds a malicious component meant to make infection harder to detect. To sum it up: we advice you to keep your antivirus protection at highest levels for awhile at least, and don’t forget to update virus databases.

A test of this free antivirus form Microsoft showed very good results. Being tested under Windows Xp SP2, Windows Vista and final version of Windows 7, Security Essentials was able to detect all the suggested viruses from the fresh WildList, 98.4% of harmful code peaces and 90.9% of spyware. Lastly it was able to find all the 25 cases of rootkits. However the main drawback of this program is lack of any type of heuristic analisys, so the antivirus will not be able to detect new viruses until theywill be added to the database. Overall, Microsoft Security Essentials showed great results.