Days after the release of MyDoom, the most inexhaustible worm in the history of the Internet, Network Associates International (NAI) has announced its 2004 security update, featuring products to safeguard home and corporate PCs.
The collection comes as standalone products or an all-in-one suite, covering anti-virus (AV), firewall, spam filter and privacy protection, and for the first time, offering scanning for adware, spyware and Web mailers. All products are available from retail outlets or downloads of up to 5MB.
Enterprise lessons
Network Associates, which started life as an enterprise security vendor, and according to the International Data Corporation, has 30% of that market, builds security products for consumers and SOHO users too.
"The AV engine is the same technology in both segments, with only a different front-end," says Christopher Bray, NAI regional manager, sub-Saharan Africa.
At the heart of the technology is a free vulnerability health-check tool, alternately called SecurityCenter (home edition) and Enterprise Policy Orchestrator. It provides a graphical view of vulnerabilities and includes a world virus map and virus information library.
A highlight of VirusScan v 8.0 (R399 retail price, or R549 for a two-user corporate edition) is its ability to detect spyware, and the fact that it silently updates every four hours. The WormStopper functionality stops mass-mailing activity, even if the infection has its own mailer, says Bray.
Firewall Plus 5.0 (R399 retail) incorporates Visual Trace, another graphical feature allowing one to track the origins of a hack down to the IP address. Another feature is membership to hackerwatch.org, which scans users` PCs and furnishes virus-specific information from its database.
Spamkiller 5.0 retails for R299, and features Bayesian spam filtering techniques.
The entire suite, called Internet Security Suite, retails for R599.
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