Technology
Written by Alma Anonas-Carpio / Correspondent
Thursday, 13 August 2009 22:50

RUSSIAN antivirus software maker Kaspersky Lab recently launched the Internet Security and Anti-Virus 2010 solutions, as well as the Mobile Security 8.0 for mobile handsets. These new protection software are geared toward safeguarding users from fast-evolving Internet malware threats.

Kaspersky Lab manager for Southeast Asia Suk Ling Gun said the 2010 flagship products “are more user-friendly, even for novices.”

Built to protect and serve the growing gaming community—to which some 9 million Filipinos belong to—as well as the larger community of Internet users, these new products include “meticulous upgrades that we have introduced…[and] pack the latest technologies that users can rely on in protecting their computers and [mobile] devices from security threats when they encounter any unknown and unsure circumstances,” Gun said.

Besides protecting smartphones against viruses and malware spread via Bluetooth and public Wi-Fi connections, Kaspersky’s latest version of its Mobile Security software also comes with an “SMS find” feature that helps improve the chances an owner can recover his lost or stolen phone.

Owners of lost or stolen phones can send a text message with a preset password to the lost phone to receive a link to Google Maps, where they can find the exact coordinates of their missing device. This feature also helps parents locate their children, if these children are using smartphones, Gun added.

It also comes with a “SIM watch” module that allows phone owners to continuously trace the whereabouts of their lost handsets even after the SIM card has been removed and replaced. Gun said the software “will send a hidden message notifying the owner of the new [phone] number and enable law-enforcement agencies to track the stolen device. This will also give the owner a chance to delete data from the smartphone or block access to it.”

Gun added that Kaspersky’s new suite of protection software detects suspicious Internet activity and immediately refers these threats to the Kaspersky Security Network, the company’s always on, always updated malware and virus signature resource network, which uses real-time information from millions of users to “dramatically reduce response times to new threats and replenish reputation databases with the most up-to-date information about clean and infected files.”

The 2010 suite of products incorporate the advantages of Kaspersy’s Host-based Intrusion Protection System (HIPS) technology in the software’s application control module, which assigns security ratings to previously unknown malware.

These software also all utilize the Russian software maker’s sandbox technology, which comes with a “safe run” functionality that isolates the rest of the computer’s operating system from suspicious executable files when a user runs or executes such programs.

The software retails for P2,980 for a three-user license to install Kaspersky Internet Security 2010, and P2,110 for a three-user license for Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010.

* Published in BusinessMirror