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With San Diego Comic Con quickly approaching, everyone is jumping on board the superhero bandwagon. Today even McAfee has joined the hype. (The company, not the man, however, we'd love to see a comic book based on John McAfee!) In a press release, the anti-virus company released its second annual list of superhero searches that lead to bad links, viruses,
G Data's Mobile Security provides anti-virus and security monitoring for Android smartphones and tablets. Is this really necessary, you might ask, but I think after some of the recent malware removals by Google, there's sufficient evidence that Android will increasingly be a target for malware and virus writers. Such is life. Mobile Security provides three main functions, on-demand scans, blacklist control
Wired is reporting that a virus has infected the flight systems controlling the Predator and Reaper drone aircraft in the Middle East. The systems have been infected for about two weeks and it appears to be a keylogger-type of virus. Further, the virus has resisted attempts to disinfect the system but the military think it's benign. You can read the
With the rise of smartphones and tablets, it's not exactly unsurprisingly that they've increasingly become a target for cyber criminals and other unscrupulous individuals. In the first half of this year, malware for portable devices increased by 273% compared with 2010. Cross-platform Trojans are the main source of the growth and most of these viruses are designed to enable spamming
GData has found that many people's preconceptions about malware are wrong and are putting them at risk of malware infection. The vectors for viruses and trojans have significantly changed in the past couple of years and infections now mainly come from websites rather than emails and USB sticks. The growth of malware in the past five years has been phenomenal
G Data have kindly supplied a copy of their AntiVirus 2012 to give away to Geek News Central's loyal UK members. I reviewed the next product up in the range, InternetSecurity 2012, a couple of weeks ago and was quietly impressed. AntiVirus 2012 comes with antivirus (obviously) plus phishing, spyware and rootkit protection for a year on the PC and
G Data's 2012 range of security products cover basic antivirus through to specialised protection for laptops and notebooks. Depending on the version purchased, the features build-up from antivirus and safe surfing, through firewalls and spam protection, to backup and data recovery, with additional features in the notebook versions. On test here is InternetSecurity 2012 which sits between AntiVirus and TotalCare