To complete the various Antivirus test results by AV-Test.org before, this time we see the test results from AV-Comparatives (independent institution that is also do antivirus test) recently. Av-Comparatives doing a test in form of: on-demand detection (test with a direct sample virus scan), False Alarm, Speed Test and Proactive test.

The last test in August 2008 and the report have latest update on 15 September 2008. This test focuses on the ability to detect viruses, detect errors (false alarms) and scanning speed. What are the antivirus software on the test results and how?

The following list of antivirus products in the test by Av-comparatives:

• Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1229
• AVG Anti-Virus 8.0.156
• AVIRA AntiVir Premium 8.1.0.362
• BitDefender Anti-Virus 11.0.17
• eScan Anti-Virus 9.0.824.217
• ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0.669.0
• F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.00.148
• G DATA AntivirusKit (AVK) 19.0.0.49
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus 8.0.0.454
• McAfee VirusScan Plus 12.1.110
• MIcrosoft Live OneCare 2.5.2900.03
• Norman Antivirus & AntiSpyware 7.10
• Sophos Endpoint Protection 7.5.1
• Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 16.0.0.125
• Trustport Antivirus 2.8.0.3006
• VBA32 Scanner for Windows 3.12.8.2

How many malware to be sample?
Total malware that as the sample is 1,190,818, with details as follows:

Windows Virus : 42.845
Macro Viruses : 2.571
Script malware : 10.405
Worms : 63.115
Backdoors/Bots : 256.749
Trojans : 707.230
other malwares: 13.287

How is the result?
The end of result (total) to detect the virus level is as follows:

Another test is to detect errors and Scan Speed (please see the complete results on the web site av-comparatives). Conclusions given by the AV-Comparatives are as follows:

For products with the Advanced + rating, AV-comparative entering the category of very high-level detection rate (The ability to detect is very high). However there are other issues that also need to look at / considered false alarms, for example, the quality of support, ease of use, the use of memory / CPU and others.

For complete results, including errors and detects the speed of scanning, please see the direct http://www.av-comparatives.org/ web site. Download the report in PDF format. To test the form of Proactive / Retrospective Test (ability to detect new viruses) will be conducted 3 months later. Hopefully this article useful (www.albachtimi.com)

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Whether you have already known that Google Page Rank will be useless when it compares to Alexa Rank, and to know your Alexa Rank, you just have to install Alexa toolbar. The fact is, Alexa toolbar useful to help your website or blog indexed well in search engine, as well.

May be right now, you will download Alexa toolbar immediately, and it is big possibility that your anti virus will detect it as AdWare. Your anti virus is not wrong, Alexa toolbar work as well as spyware. It will monitor your activities on the web, it will remember any site that you visited and compile all information from those sites. These data will be sent to Alexa anonymously. These all information is compiled and used to give rank to the site.

Noteworthy, Alexa is not only the one who uses this information. Google uses data that comes from Alexa to index and giving rank, as well. Thus, install Alexa toolbar and browse your own site, obviously will help and accelerate your site to be indexed by Google. In addition, your surf manner also the important part to decide what are the important thing and the most popular thing in web world. Ultimately, will help to increase SERP.

Now, we know that Google use this kind of information, so it is normal to assume that other search engine like Yahoo, and MSN do the same thing ?

Alexa still remain as the most accurate resource until this time, and those reasons above is quite enough for me to activate this Alexa toolbar. Therefore, what are you waiting for, download it now, and see the difference of your website/blog next few months.

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Virus spread on new way of method, people can be not realizing that their computer has been infected. Many years before, malware mostly spread through e-mail attachment. Finally, Bagle, Mydoom, and Warezov can spread out wide. Now, email attachment in EXE file (and any kind of file which have potency to bring malware) already can be filtered.

Malware creator don’t want to give up, they decide to change they pattern to spread their creation, they chose web site as the way to force attack. The attack still starts with spam but there is no file attached. That spam contain link to the web which have codes that will install malware. It can be said that computer infected by HTTP not SMTP. When someone open website, the infection immediately happened except operating system, browser application, and plugin which is installed in browser already have patched. But generally, most of people let their system open without patch. Infection can also happen when someone click links to download program at website that contain malware.

There are some method which malware creator used in order to get people visit their site, the way that usually malware creator do is to send spam that contain interested message so that people persuaded to click the link. Some of favorite message are “There is a video of you on YouTube”, “You have receive a greeting card”, or “Thank you for your order”.

Another trick is making a lot of website page with thousands of different keyword so that Google indexed that web site. When someone uses Google to searching, that website page appears on Google search page result and ready to be clicked.

Third way the malware creator use to spread their creation is to hack popular website, website that has large traffic. They won’t do deface, they still use the main page, but they add a few scripts that will make visitor computer got infected. Unfortunately, there is no any sign appear on visitor screen, everything looks normal.

This thing ever happens to website of popular magazine which have millions of visitor everyday. Those people routinely visit that website without any suspicion.

Another way is to make advertisement on popular website. If they do this, they have not to hack website in order to install their malware to visitors.

This malware spread alteration have to be always watched carefully, lot of company measure their security system by the number of attachment that they successfully block, I just can say that, its indeed they succeed to block large number of attachment. But it’s not the risk of infection.

Make list of data application that running in operating system have good purpose to control stabilization. Sometimes, there are applications that running not identified and have bad purposes, among of that application are spyware and adware.

One of many operating system that can shows running application is Windows, windows has many features that able to use for this purpose. We can use combination button are [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Del] on keyboard. But sometimes, virus or malware has contaminated the computer and lock off that combination button so we can’t use that, whether another way to do shows running application? legal or illegal operation.

Following steps are another way to shows running application in our operating system :

1. As first step, run command prompt;
2. Type “tasklist” command at the prompt and push enter button, than will appear new windows prompt that shows running application.

It’s so simple, isn’t it? Now you can monitor running application through console windows. If you want to see another new application that running, just type “tasklist” (without quote) command at command prompt, then will appear new running application list.