B-HAVE – BitDefender’s Proactive Technology

BitDefender, a global provider of award-winning anti-virus software and data security solutions, announced today the launch of BitDefender Total Security 2009, in South Africa.

The new security solution from BitDefender provides the ultimate proactive protection for PCs by combining advanced protection against viruses, spyware, hackers, spam and other e-threats, with minimal impact on system performance.

Network Security 101 For The Small Business

By a show of hands, how many of you are running a home office? Let’s broaden that search; how many of our loyal readers work in a small office environment? Companies of such a size usually will not have an IT support team, unless of course, it is an IT support company. Now the beauty of these small environments has to be the ease of manageability. It takes almost no knowledge to set up a small network of 3 or 4 PC’s. The bonus is if you have a brother, sister, next door neighbour, friend… actually anyone who’s inner-geek can be exploited to sort you out. You don’t well here are 4 major things to keep in mind, for yourself.

Virtual PC’s – Where Should My Anti-Virus Be?

Let’s for a moment visualize a virtualized desktop environment. An operating system offering a type 2 hypervisor is acting as the primary operating system in a desktop virtualization implementation. This could be Linux sporting Xen or KVM. It could be Windows running something like Parallels or Virtual PC. It could be Mac OS running Fusion or Parallels. One person could be using the resources of all of these virtual machines or it could be an environment for a workgroup. The key question is where should the anti-virus software run and why?