Norton antivirus/internet security 2010 beta released

Symantec has made its upcoming 2010 products available to the public for testing here are some of the new features of the upcoming products:

• 1. Performance
  We are determined never to take our eye off that particular ball again. The goal is to put out the fastest scanner that uses the least memory and that does the least to impact your computing experience. We will be testing the performance many different ways - but we want to hear from you on this year’s model.
• 2. Quorum Which is an internal name for a dynamic reputation system that informs many of our components. Last year we introduced Norton Insight - which used reputation to separate what files are safe from those that are not

This year we extended that to give you insight into what is impacting the performance of the system. We also are using Quorum to better make firewall decisions

• 3. SONAR 2 our new heuristic engine. It looks for new/unknown malware both in static files and in real time and rates every file and every process. The security rating feeds Quorum - and you get to see the security rating of everything running on your system. We expect big improvements on pro-active malware tests.
• 4. Feeding your inner geek. More information for the user. Including more info on:
  - What happened when a system got infected
  - Information on the safety and performance rating of new software before you install it
  - And pretty pictures of system performance - and system changes. The idea is to make it easy to how new software impacted your system's performance.
• 5. Brightmail
  Yes, they finally put the Brightmail spam engine into NIS.
  
• 6. Onlinefamily a new approach to parental controls - gives you a little insight into what your pre-teen is doing online.

To register and download the new beta 2010 products you can go to this page.

This is beta software, so expect the unexpected and don't run it on your production machine.

Windows 7 Editions Features Comparison

Microsoft has published the Windows 7 SKU or product editions that will be available to end-users in october 2009.

The higher versions of Windows 7 (that is the ones that are more expensive) includes all of the features of the lower versions plus eatra features that are not available in the lower versions.

this page gives you all the information about what will and wont be included in the different versions of Windows 7.

Add Items to the Start Button using the Registry

Before you begin always backup the windows registry as its very easy to deliet the wrong thing and that can cause the whole system to crash and make your system un-bootable.



Follow these steps to add items to the start button:

• First click on the Start button then type Regedit in the search box or useing the run option in xp


• In the Registry Editor go to left hand panel, and find HKey_Classes_Root / Directory / Shell


• Here Right click on the Shell folder option and add any new key with a descriptive name and Press Enter.


• Now Right click on that key and give the full path of that program you want to add in the start button. For example if you want to add MS word, then full path may be C:\programfiles\msoffice\msword.EXE


• Now close all of the open programs and check the changes you made in your computers Start button.

Download The new Kaspersky 2010 Security Products

Kaspersky Lab has relesed next years batch of its security programes Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 and Kaspersky Internet security 2010. More infomation can be found here .

I will be reviewing Kaspersky Internet security 2010 in the near future so stay tuned If you wish to download the new version now just go to these links

(You must have a current subscription to kaspersky to upgrade your current product).

Kaspersky Antivirus can be downloaded here

Kaspersky Internet Security can be downloaded here

Windows 7 Relese Date Announced

Windows 7 the next major release of the worlds most popular operating system will officially be available to the public on october 22nd

Microsoft is trying to avoid the the negative press that surrounded the launch of Vista, the last major Windows release that was almost 3 years ago! Windows 7 has been designed to be compatible with Vista and all the programes that you use in vista so users do not have to invest in new hardware or worrie about updateing exsisting software. And Customers who buy a new Windows Vista based pc now will be offerd free upgrades to Windows 7 when it is released.

Windows 7 features:

• Windows XP mode - a virtual PC that can run older applications that might not run on Windows 7


• Remote Media Streaming - access your home digital media over the net


• Aero Peek - full screen previews of applications


• Windows Touch: Support for multi-touch devices


• Gadgets: Widgets now appear on the desktop and not in a sidebar

Beta testers of Windows 7 have reported that it is faster than Vista, especially in terms of start-up and shutdown sequence of the computer.