FSecure Internet Security 2008

Saturday, February 02, 2008

This is a complete security solution to protect your machinefrom all online as well as offline threats. It is equipped with'F-Secure DeepGuard' technology, and includes an antivirus, an-tispam, and a personal Firewall too. 'F-Secure DeepGuard' tech-nology is basically an implementation ofthe host-based intrusionprevention system. It uses techniques such as system monitoring,sandboxing, blocking ofcode injections, advanced heuristics, andrun-time behavioral blocking for protecting your system from latest spyware and malware.

We installed this security solution on a Windows XP SP2 ma-chine, which was already infected with some common virusesand spyware. This solution successfully detected and deleted allofthem. Further, we took a USB pen drive that had approximately9000 viruses; most ofthem were self-executable files, zipped,zipped up to 2nd level, and some macro viruses. We ran anti-virusscan on this drive and were able to delete approximately 95% ofviruses. For checking its antispam capabilities we placed our spamcollection onto our test mail server and started downloading it tothe machine, which had this software installed on it. It could de-tect around 60% ofspams, which is less compared to the QuickHeal Total Security 2007 that detected 75-80% ofspams. But thissolution learns with time. For checking its Firewall capabilities weran Nessus and this one showed zero vulnerability, compared toNorton 360 (reviewed October 2007) in which Nessus showedone open vulnerable port. We also exposed this security softwareto DOS attack and the Arpspoof(for IPSdetection) attack. It successfully detected and blocked the DOS attack, but was not ableto detect the Arpspoofattack.

BOTTOMLINE: At this price and with these features, a best option for safeguarding your system against vulnerabilities

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