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Custodia AntiVirus with Personal Firewall (exe)

Active protection against viruses, Trojans, worms, and other forms of malware. Featuring innovative and patented technology to scan, detect, and remove viruses, registry protection, e-mail scan, file shredder, and embedded scan for other programs such as MS Office, Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, WinZip, and WinRAR....

Tags: Firewall, Personal Firewall, Canada, Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2008-07-22

Lavasoft Personal Firewall (32-bit) (exe)

Lavasoft Personal Firewall is targeted for small and medium-sized business organizations and home users, providing seamless and powerful protection for both. This firewall product comes with simple configuration, "tick in the box" options. and powerful, easy-to-use controls. Coupled with Ad-Aware SE Plus or Ad-Aware SE Professional, it is a great...

Tags: Lavasoft, 32-bit, Personal Firewall, Lavasoft Personal Firewall, Firewalls, Smb/Sme, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Network Security, Security, Networking

Software downloads 2008-04-02

Design and Implementation of Personal Firewalls for Handheld Devices

Personal Digital Assistants PDAs have become one of the important tools in the life. Their popularity is due to their small size and mobility which enables them to be carried anywhere. Along with their popularity, handheld devices are starting to become the target for the attackers, who are mainly interested...

Tags: Firewall, Personal Firewall, Handheld Device, University Of Wollongong, Handhelds, Hardware

White papers 2008-01-01

Personal Firewall Usability - A Survey

This paper focuses on the usability challenges presented by personal firewalls. Nowadays, the focus of IT security is changing from patching system to securing remote access citeTM07, so many personal computer owners install a personal firewall to increase the security of end nodes on a network by monitoring both incoming...

Tags: Personal Firewall, Survey, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking

White papers 2007-12-12

2007 Gartner Endpoint Protection Magic Quadrant Report

This report from Gartner, Inc. discusses how traditional point product anti-virus, anti-spyware and personal firewall markets have been eclipsed by broader suites of related security technologies, which Gartner has labeled the EPP Endpoint Protection Platforms. Various EPP vendors are evaluated based on their ability to execute in the marketplace and...

Tags: quadrant, gartner inc., personal firewall, security, viruses and worms

White papers 2007-12-01

Tech Shakedown #3: McAfee's 'Block/Allow this change' dialog is a useless warning

As far as security solutions go, personal firewalls are probably the most problematic category for vendors to get right, let alone users to get working. Not only are there differing philosophies about what belongs in a personal firewall and what doesn't (eg: whereas many personal firewalls can and will...

Tags: Vista, Technology Shakedown, Software Infrastructure, Security, Personal Technology, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-08-01

Screen Gallery: When is a firewall not a firewall? When it's Vista's built-in firewall

Screen Gallery: See the screen gallery that demonstrates all that went wrong with Davids attempt to configure Vistas firewall. Whereas one job of a personal firewall is to block potentially malicious inbound connections to your machine, another is to block potentially malicious outbound connections. For example, if...

Tags: General, Vista, Software Infrastructure, Personal Technology, Security, Image Gallery, firewall

Blog posts 2007-02-05

Usability and Security of Personal Firewalls

Effective security of a personal firewall depends on the rule granularity and the implementation of the rule enforcement and the correctness and granularity of user decisions at the time of an alert. A misconfigured or loosely configured firewall may be more dangerous than no firewall at all because of the...

Tags: Granularity, Personal Firewall, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking

White papers 2007-01-19

Personal Firewalls - Testing Robustness

Consumers require personal firewalls that are highly secure, easy to use, configurable and up-to-date with the latest signatures to detect malicious network activity. Robustness tests were performed on a selection of the ten most popular firewalls by market share. The test system used was a vanilla installation of Windows XP...

Tags: Personal Firewall, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking

White papers 2007-01-12

A Personal Firewall for Linux

This paper constitutes the investigation and development of a user-friendly tool for firewall-configuration and -management, based on the netfilter/iptables-firewall-code residing in current Linux-kernels. It aims to be a personal firewall for Linux. It provides a KDE-GUI for net filter/iptables that lists and edits firewall-rules, lists running processes, and lists connection-attempts...

Tags: Personal Firewall, Denmark, Linux, Firewalls, Network Security, Operating Systems, Software, Networking

White papers 2005-08-30

Additional Resources

Welcome to the Data Cloud ?

'The Cloud' is increasingly prevalent in tech conversation these days. Stalwarts of the space such as Amazon and Salesforce go from strength to strength, whilst titans of an earlier model such as Larry Ellison and even Steve Ballmer now seek to appropriate the meme. New blogs like CloudAve play a...

Tags: Web, Data, UKOLN, Channel Management, Internet, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Techies choose Obama - by a landslide

If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...

Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-10-05

Hands-on review of the Logitech Squeezebox Boom

After seeing my mildly skeptical post about the release of its Squeezebox Boom Internet radio device, Logitech offered to send me a sample unit to review, promising me I'd be pleasantly surprised with the audio output from the compact unit. I've been testing it out over the last few weeks,...

Tags: Station, Radio, Logitech, Boom, Music Services, Advertising & Promotion, Engineering, Wireless, Marketing, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-04

Velocity 103

We've seen plenty of Windows Mobile devices in our day, and at times they all start to blur together--same story, just different packaging. However, back at CTIA Spring 2008, a new company called Velocity Mobile caught our eye, impressing us with a fresh approach to the user interface. Recognizing that...

Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Cellular phones, Monitors & displays, Handhelds, Velocity, Velocity 103, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch

Product reviews 2008-10-03

Apple shares fall below $100 ... again

Apple shares fall below $100 ... againfor those who bring up stock prices when comparing Mac and PCso we all know (because we've been told by apple fans ) that apple products are better than Microsoft products because apple share prices have gone up and Microsoft's haven't. considering that in...

Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Supply chain management (SCM), Apple stock, Apple Inc., stock, heart attack story

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Citizen journalism might try to kill you

Citizen journalism might try to kill youDouble edged swordCitizen journalism almost sounds like a contradiction. One one hand, so many people nowadays carry a device that can at least take snapshots, but more are taking video. Real journalists can't get to where a story is very fast so it takes...

Tags: Citizen Journalism

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

President Obama will take away kids cold medicine

President Obama will take away kids cold medicineWhy regulate something that is only a problem due to irresponsible parentsALL over-the-counter OTC medications have information about who can use it and how much medicine it should get. Every bottle of OTC medication has very visible warning and most specify that...

Tags: blog author, gov, cold medicine, Obama, prescription, medication

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

I'm Cookoo about Cucku Backup

I recently discovered this great application, Cucku Backup at the Pepcom Holiday Spectacular party a few weeks ago. Cucku differs from other network-based personal backup solutions such as Carbonite  or Iron Mountain SOHO in that the software is free and leverages existing peer-to peer technology from the Skype VOIP network....

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Cucku, Backups, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-03

HP to jump into smartphones. Why?

Hewlett Packard is jumping deeper into the crowded smartphone market, announcing plans for an iPaq smartphone that will be marketed toward consumers to be released first in Europe before the end of the year and later worldwide, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. In...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Our second Linux laptop has a real keyboard

Our second Linux laptop has a real keyboardXandros lite is OK ...For the average user the Xandros Lite OS is fine, but it does have some shortcomings:1) Asus for some reason has a ram limit compiled into the kernel of 1GB. The machine has a max limit of 2GB, but...

Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, laptop computer, ASUS, real keyboard, kernel, Linux laptop, Xandros, Intel Celeron, distro, keyboard, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-10-03