Yet, UTM encompasses NGF, and indeed most of the NGF vendors also include URL content inspection, and anti-malware features.
He just pitted the service against 10 anti-malware apps to gauge its effectiveness at stopping a wide range of rogue code.
"There are not enough people taking up anti-malware subscriptions, " said Mr Evans.
Microsoft will start with a hosted e-mail filter and anti-malware service.
Figures gathered by the Get Safe Online campaign suggest that 50% of PCs in the UK do not have up-to-date anti-malware software installed.
Make sure you install system updates and run anti-malware as prompted.
Alvin Estevez is president, co-founder, and managing director of Enigma Software Group USA, a developer of PC and Internet security systems, including the SpyHunter anti-malware software diagnosis and removal utility.
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Alvin Estevez is the cofounder, president, and managing director of the Enigma Software Group, which develops PC and Internet security systems, including the SpyHunter anti-malware software diagnosis and removal utility.
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Spend a few a minutes with a security researcher, someone who works at one of the hundred plus anti-malware companies, and you begin to realize that there is an ongoing battle between the good guys and the bad.
In a recent survey conducted by B2B International on behalf of the security company Kaspersky Lab, 46 percent of IT professionals said they agreed with the statement that anti-malware vendors have inadequate products and services to cope with the security threats of smartphones and tablets.
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His company sells anti-virus software and malware protection programs.
This growth in number can be attributed to malware authors crafting their infected or trojanized applications to defeat anti-virus signature detection, distributing their malware in different application names, and trojanizing widely popular applications.
This conclusion is not surprising, given both the explosion of malware (more malware was distributed in 2009 than in the last 25 years combined) and the reduced ability of anti-virus products to detect it (20%-50% of malware goes undetected).
One of the industries brightest and most prominent researchers, Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure, offered a public mea culpa last week for the failure of Anti-Virus vendors to detect and prevent advanced malware such as the recently discovered Flame.
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One of the most malicious types of Malware out there is the Fake Anti-Virus.
Because malware is being written just for them and their anti-virus products will never have signatures for these custom attacks.
These malware programs get onto your machine, post as anti-virus software, warn you that your computer is full of viruses and needs to be cleaned.
Consider this: studies have shown that the infamous Zeus malware is able to infect an incredible 75% of systems that have both their anti-virus software properly running and up to date.
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This year saw the widespread adoption of a tactic for hiding malware delivery sites known as "fast flux, " says Laura Mather, a researcher at the Anti-Phishing Working Group committee and a senior scientist with digital brand protection firm MarkMonitor.
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