Matousec: Comodo is Number 1, again!
It was with great pride last week that we learned that Comodo Internet Security is once again at the top of the charts in the Matousec Proactive Security Challenge 64.
As of January 18, 2013, the independent tester of security software ranked Comodo Internet Security 2013 Premium (v6) number 1 in tests of 38 internet security suite. Moreover, Comodo was the only suite to receive a rating of “Excellent” and only one of three products that Matousec rated as “Recommended”!
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Malware using your computer to make digital money
Electronic money (e-money) is being used more and more often by people to make online purchases. And sure as night follows day, this means electronic money is also gaining the attention of malware authors who are trying to benefit from it by any means possible. We encountered a malicious sample, whose role is not to steal but to generate (to ‘mine’) digital currency using a Bitcoin ‘mining pool’ (a distributed computational network to generate ‘Bitcoins’). The attack is executed by installing a trojan horse program on a network of victim computers and then use their processing power to generate Bitcoin blocks.
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Hackers need privacy too – Password protected archives help malware evade detection by antivirus scanners
If you need to deliver or store confidential documents over the Internet, then placing them inside a password-protected, self-extracting ‘archive’ is one of the best ways to keep out prying eyes. Many users will be familiar with archives in the form of ‘zip’ files and programs like WinZip (there are others like 7-Zip and WinRar which perform a similar function). An archive allows you save multiple documents inside a single file and to compress the overall file size.
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March is gone. But not forgotten.
If you happen not to have been a frequent reader of the Blog contributions I’ve published within the Social Media section of Comodo’s Web site (and picked up on Comodo’s Facebook page), here’s your chance to catch up. – Selectively.
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February’s gone. But not forgotten.
If you happen not to have been a frequent reader of the Blog contributions I’ve published within the Social Media section of Comodo’s Web site (and picked up on Comodo’s Facebook page), here’s your chance to catch up. – Selectively.
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