My Technology Guide

Microsoft today released a new, limited beta for their increasingly popular security application, Microsoft Security Essentials, the next big version of the well acclaimed Windows security software. Microsoft Security Essentials was first released in September 2009 and is Microsoft's award-winning, no-cost, freeware, light weight security application. It's designed to give security to computers running genuine Windows editions.

For protecting our computers from security and malware threats we sometimes experiment with different security suites to see which one is better than the other. In this process, we install and uninstall these security suites as it is always advisable to use only one antivirus or a full featured security suite at a time in our system. More than one antivirus or a full featured security suite that includes everything from a firewall, antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-malware, and more can cause lots of performance and stability issues.

Although we can easily uninstall the existing security program using Windows built-in "Add/Remove Programs" (or Programs and Features in Windows Vista and 7) applet but it's not a perfect solution. Sometimes the uninstaller of the program doesn't remove all the components and registry keys installed by the security program completely, this can hamper with the newly installed security program and may even cause system instability and BSOD's.

AVG Technologies has unveiled AVG LinkScanner for the Mac operating system. AVG LinkScanner for Mac is the first free AVG product designed for Mac OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard and supports Internet browsers Safari 3.x, Safari 4.x, Safari 5.x and Mozilla Firefox 3.x and higher.

According to AVG research, 99 percent of all malicious threats are delivered through the web and cannot be stopped with traditional antivirus software. These threats can come and go within hours and can live on familiar, big-name sites and even on third-party applications on popular social networking sites, without users even noticing. And with the growing popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and others, the bad guys are using these sites as their main vehicle for spreading malware.

Trend Micro Internet Security Pro provides the most comprehensive, easy-to-use protection for your personal data so you can shop, bank, or browse with confidence. If you are in search of a security suite or if you are a Trend Micro Internet Security fan then here is a good news for you all. Trend Micro is running a promotion where you can get free 1 year Single User valid subscription of Trend Micro Internet Security 2010. They are also giving away a 1 year Single User valid subscription of Trend Micro Smart Surfing for Apple Mac users. This special offer is originally meant for Iomega Customers only but you can also avail it!

The Comodo companies are innovative and prolific developers of online security and trust assurance solutions. Comodo, the makers of the popular free Comodo Internet Security Suite and other free security applications have released Comodo Dragon Internet Browser. Comodo Dragon is a fast and versatile Internet Browser based on Chromium. Being based on Google Chrome, so you will get all the features of Chrome with the added benefit of strong security and privacy features.

If you are a Chrome user than adapting to Dragon will be easy and comfortable for you. Even though Comodo Dragon is fast, versatile and secure, you will miss Bookmark Synchronize and extensions features in it.

Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 are one of the best security suites available in the market. For some reason if you want to remove Kaspersky Antivirus or Internet Security 2010, then you can do so via Start > Control Panel > AddRemove Programs. But if you are facing some errors while uninstalling/deleting Kaspersky product from your machine, do not worry as Kaspersky provides a small application to completely remove Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 / Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 from your PC. This tool is very simple, small and portable.

Today, I found "special offers for Microsoft Customers" by Norton and CA. I think, after the launch of the final version of Microsoft Security Essentials, Symantec and CA both are providing their security suites for free use for 90 days, which is great! If you download all these four 90 days version of security suites from both Symantec and CA, you may get professional security free for more than 6 months upto a year.

Suppose, you have installed NAV 2010 and used it for 90 days. After NAV 2010 expiration, uninstall it and install the CA Anti-virus Plus 2010 and use it for 90 days and then Norton 360, CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2010 and Norton Internet Security 2010. Then you will get professional protection for free for more than 1 year (taking into consideration, our previous information about the free 90 days OEM version of Norton Internet Security 2010).