About Us

The Immunet Blog is maintained by the Immunet team as a forum for discussing news and issues related to AntiVirus, security and cloud technology.

Search

Entries from December 1, 2009 - January 1, 2010

Thursday
Dec242009

Be a Friend! Join the Immunet Friends AntiVirus Program

As the kids in our latest Immunet video show us, being a friend online also means protecting your friends from the legions of nasty viruses and malware that you might unknowingly infect them with as you share content, videos and social networking sites on the Web. Please be a friend and join the Immunet Friends Program, and help us spread the word about Immunet Protect's FREE Community-based AntiVirus protection.

Click to read more ...

Wednesday
Dec232009

Why Anti-Virus is Hard

Every so often I am asked by a friend or a family member if I can tell if a file is a virus using just cursory inspection, and more often than not I receive a follow-up question on why it is so hard to do so. Before I get into why malware detection is so incredibly hard, it is helpful to take a brief diversion into the theoretical underpinnings of computer science.

Click to read more ...

Thursday
Dec172009

How do I avoid getting a virus? Part II (Rogue Anti-Virus)

This blog is part II in our series 'How to avoid getting viruses'. The most recent installment deals with how to avoid common Rogue Anti-Virus software with common sense approaches.

Click to read more ...

Thursday
Dec102009

How do I avoid getting a virus? Part 1

I’ve worked in the Anti-Virus (AV) industry for the lion’s share of a decade and a question I rarely hear is ‘How do I avoid getting a virus?’ It’s common for me to get questions on pretty much every other facet of viruses (like, whose product is best/worst, who writes the viruses etc, are all the viruses really written by the Russian mob?) but rarely do people ask me how to avoid getting a virus in the first place. It’s almost as if we are all resigned to getting one eventually.

Click to read more ...

Wednesday
Dec092009

Immunet Protect Put Simply

In order to explain the powerful benefits of Immunet Protect in as straightforward of a way as possible, we've put together a video that shows how Immunet Protect works.  This video is meant to be shared with your friends and family and anyone else that could benefit from free AntiVirus software this holiday season.

The video is hosted on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saVll_iZ418

We hope that this helps make giving the gift of free AntiVirus software even easier, so please share it with all of your friends. In addition, if you have not yet become a fan of Immunet on Facebook, please visit our Facebook page and become a fan today!