Today, Friday, March 13, 2011, pceggheads llc is proud to announce its partnership with top anti-malware company Emsisoft; which is currently leading

the fight against malware and viruses according to multiple independent reviews.  Our partnership will allow us to offer the full line of Emsisoft Products to our customers including:

• Emsisoft’s Complete Anti-Malware Solution
• Mamuto
• Online Armor Premium Firewall
• Online Armor ++ Firewall
• HiJackFree
• Anti-Dialer

pceggheads is proud to partner with one of the most respected and elite anti-malware solutions available at this time.

How safe is your PC really?

To put it succinctly: Why signature-based security software is not enough

Normal security software recognizes Malware using Signatures, a type of digital fingerprint. What is problem with this? No fingerprint means no recognition. This means that the Malware must first be known to the manufacturer of the security software before it is possible to create a fingerprint allowing it to be recognized. The fingerprint database on your PC is then updated online on a daily basis. Only then can the Malware be recognized.

You are probably now thinking: “What about new Malware that manufacturer of the security software has never seen? They have no way of making a fingerprint of this…”. Exactly!

This is where the behavior-based Malware defense of Mamutu comes into play. It does not use a fingerprint to recognize dangerous software but rather on the basis of the behavior of the software. This allows Mamutu to recognize new Malware long before the signature databases have been updated. These types of Malware attacks are known as Zero-Day attacks. In addition to this, behavior-based Malware recognition is the only efficient way of recognizing Malware that has been built for a single specific attack, e.g. for industrial espionage.

The following are examples of cloud related products:

• vCloud Express (by VMWARE)
• Panda Cloud Anti-Virus (by Panda Security™)
• OpSource Cloud (A Virtual Private Cloud Offering)
• Google Apps (Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, etc)
• SalesForce CRM

So what do you notice?  I named products that don’t really have much to do with eachother.  Two products that offer some type of cloud environment, one CRM product, a productivity suite, and one anti-virus product.  So what do they all have in common?  They all reference the term cloud computing, or, run in ‘the cloud’.

First and foremost, there is no ‘one cloud’; meaning that, just because you’re using one cloud-based solution from Salesforce, does not mean that if you use a cloud-based solution from Panda Security that all the processing is being done in a central location.  It simply means, that some, or all, of the processing or storage that the product needs to work, is not being done on your computer, but on the service providers computers (or Servers).

Some people define the cloud as a service that provides virtual machine (VM) instances.  Others define it as a productivity suite that can be opened anywhere within a web browser.

The general consensus regarding cloud computing is this:  whatever the product, or service offering, the data, and the processing of that data, is being completed on servers not owned/leased by the end-user (you), but by the person or company providing the service or product.

I hope this helps some of you understand what cloud computing is.  It’s not that easy, so don’t blame yourself if you don’t get it… just ask your egghead engineer for some more information the next time they’re helping you with your computer.

Stay safe,

pceggheads

So leave IE in the past where it belongs and come to 2011 with Firefox or Chrome.

Questions?  email us!

–Adam

Why Panda Cloud Protection?

• Next Generation Cloud-based SaaS Solution
• Panda Cloud Protection is extremely light, as all operations take place in the cloud. It minimizes resource consumption, and clients don’t need to provide any of the infrastructure.
• Panda Cloud Protection offers immediate protection against the latest viruses and spam, thanks to the scans performed on PandaLabs’ servers.
• Panda Cloud Protection is extremely simple to use. Its Web console allows remote security management at any time, from anywhere.
• Panda Cloud Protection offers proactive anti-malware protection for endpoints, email and web traffic. Signature files are updated continuously and automatically, leveraging Panda Security’s Collective Intelligence knowledge base. It provides firewall protection (in personal or managed mode), as well as cloud-based anti-spam filtering.
• The solution requires no investment in infrastructure or specialized personnel, as everything is hosted by Panda Security. It reduces unnecessary email traffic on the network and maintains optimum protection levels, even during peak traffic times.
• The solution uses technologies that minimize resource and bandwidth consumption. The peer-to-peer endpoint updates save bandwidth. It also eliminates non-productive traffic in the perimeter, thereby reducing server workloads.
• The endpoint protection (Panda Cloud Office Protection) Web console enables service providers to manage all clients centrally and effectively. This ensures that companies can outsource security management to specialized service providers.

pcEggheads is proud to announce its partnership with Panda Security.

When you purchase Panda Anti-Virus through pcEggheads, we have the ability to manage your definitions real-time, ensure protection, and monitor threats.  Contact pcEggheads for more information!  (571) 451.2300 or email support@pceggheads.com

Check it out and let us know how it performs!

–Adam