http://www.secuobs.com Observatoire de la securite Internet fr webmaster@secuobs.com 2009-06-25 10:33:04 - Matousec Blog : Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 is out It comes with several newfunctions and various improvements Among the noticeable new features,we can mention the Safe Run mode which enables the users to run newsoftware in an isolated environment so that it can not harm theoperating system or other applications Another new features are theGame Mode – reducing alerts during playing games, and KasperskyToolbar for Internet browsers that warns about known dangerouswebsites Read more in the official press release on Kaspersky Lab'swebsite We will schedule the testing of KIS 2010 as soon as possiblehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/113548.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/113548.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-27 13:59:32 - Matousec Blog - Very popular Outpost Firewall is now also available in a lightweightversion called Outpost Firewall Free The previous free version ofOutpost Firewall was released in 2002 and its protection was outdatedfor several years The new free version is based on the engine of thecommercial version with some features removed Outpost Firewall Freeoffers Firewall, Proactive host protection and Self protectionfeatures as the Pro version but it misses Anti-Spyware, Web control,Identity Protection features and Multi-language support This productmay quickly become a great alternative for the users that require freesolutionshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/88580.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/88580.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-30 16:37:28 - Matousec Blog - ESET, the vendor of the well known anti-virus software NOD32, launchedtheir new product called ESET Smart Security It consists of fourbasic components: Antivirus, Antispyware, Antispam and mostimportantly Personal firewall The suggested retail price for anindividual user license is 5999 USD ESET Smart Security runs on both32 and 64bit platforms and is compatible with Windows 2000, XP andVistahttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76877.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76877.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-30 16:37:28 - Matousec Blog - Comodo Group released a new stable version of their popular securityproduct – Comodo Firewall Pro 3 According to Comodo, version 3 is acompletely new security solution with many new features and additionsand can not be simply compared to older 2x versions For a full list,see Comodo Firewall Pro - Features and Benefits Version 3 runs on32bit and 64bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista And as usualfor Comodo software, this product is absolutely freehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76876.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76876.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-30 16:37:28 - Matousec Blog - During the update of our list of personal firewalls and HIPS forWindows we have gained some interesting information about theconnections between several products We have also identified a numberof projects that were stoppedhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76875.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76875.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-30 16:37:28 - Matousec Blog - Until proven otherwise, we mark ProSecurity as a dead project We havenot succeeded to contact its vendor for several months and its websiteis currently down We advice all its users to switch to some otherproductUpdate 2008/06/28: The website of ProSecurity is redirected tohttp://wwwrtdefendercom/ It explains the situation aboutProSecurity with this message:We have bought ProSecurity, the new name of ProSecurity will beReal-time DefenderAll registered users will get supports and free updates as beforeWe Apologize for Any InconvenienceReal-time Defender Inchttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76874.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76874.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-30 16:37:28 - Matousec Blog - Just a few hours ago, Agnitum Ltd announced its new product line –Outpost Pro 2009 In the press release the vendor promises a betterusability and performance and also a couple of new features – eg aprotection against keyloggers Just like you, we are curious how itwill perform in Firewall Challengehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76873.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76873.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-30 16:37:28 - Matousec Blog - Tall Emu Pty Ltd released a new major version of their popularpersonal firewall Online Armor Personal Firewall v3 comes with agreat improvement that many people were waiting for – the support forWindows Vistahttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76872.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76872.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-30 16:37:28 - Matousec Blog - One of our visitors asked us a question about Rising Firewall passingCheckmark Desktop Firewall Certification He asked how it was possiblethat Rising scored so bad in our tests while it was able to pass thecertification by West Coast Labs This blog post is about whatCheckmark Desktop Firewall Certification really means and how it isrelated to Firewall Challenge testinghttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76871.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76871.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-30 16:37:28 - Matousec Blog - A few days ago, Comodo Security Solutions, Inc released new securityproducts called Comodo Internet Security and Comodo Internet SecurityPro These are security suites that combine classic firewall, personalfirewall and anti-virus features Comodo Internet Security iscompletely free while Comodo Internet Security Pro includes paidservices For more information, visit the vendor's websitehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76870.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76870.shtml http://www.secuobs.com Observatoire de la securite Internet fr webmaster@secuobs.com 2014-09-14 16:40:21 - Matousec Blog : http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/534829.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/534829.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-12-18 09:40:25 - Matousec Blog - This week we have finally decided to close our Moneybookers account Fortunately, this operation seems to be successfully finished Since now, they can no longer steal our money Yes, to steal Skrill former Moneybookers is a scam, a fraudulent company that does not hesitate to accept money sent to you and keep it for itself For sure you can use Google and find number of people claiming that Moneybookers stole their money So, here is just another story to support the claims against Moneybookers Skrill http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/417537.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/417537.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-11-01 19:31:00 - Matousec Blog - Proactive Security Challenge is a project devoted mostly to testing abilities of security software to protect against actions of malware Currently, Proactive Security Challenge consists of 148 different tests Sometimes we hear people arguing that the techniques used in our tests do not correspond with techniques used by the real malware In order to find out how much Proactive Security Challenge reflects the real world of malware, we have performed the following research We have collected a set of 20 malware samples that were not detected by two popular anti-virus engines This means that downloading these samples to the computer and executing them would be possible even with a fully updated anti-virus installed Then we have run the samples and analyzed the techniques they used The results are as follows http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/261537.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/261537.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-03-22 14:34:59 - Matousec Blog - Since the last testing of Malware Defender, we have received quite a lot of emails suggesting that Malware Defender should not be recommended security product to use because it is a rogue security software As an evidence the emails linked various web pages with details about Malware Defender 2009 If we read the above mentioned Wikipedia article about rogue security software carefully we can find out that the list of well known rogue security software contains the following entry Malware Defender not to be confused with the HIPS firewall of the same name Obviously, the rogue application called Malware Defender 2009 is not the Malware Defender by TorchSoft Screenshots of both applications are available on the Internet compare screenshots of TorchSoft's Malware Defender with a screenshot of Malware Defender 2009 TorchSoft's Malware Defender that was tested in Proactive Security Challenge is a legitimate security software The list of rogue security software on Wikipedia clearly shows that it is a common strategy of malware authors to name their products with similar names to legitimate software We should not be confused about that and we should always be able to find out which application is legitimate and which is not Our list of security products suitable for Proactive Security Challenge testing should always help you find the web site of the original and legitimate software http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/203979.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/203979.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-02-17 14:37:34 - Matousec Blog - During the last few weeks, we have received a couple of emails concerning the security of PC Tools Firewall Plus Our visitors ask us, how is it possible that PC Tools Firewall Plus is rated highly in Proactive Security Challenge when it is not able to block the very simple GRC's LeakTest, a tiny testing program that was written many years ago Regardless the configuration of PC Tools Firewall Plus, clicking Test For Leaks button in GRC's LeakTest leads to the big red Firewall Penetrated alert Being that a repetitive question, we have decided to analyze the situation We found out that GRC's LeakTest is just a poorly written program that suffers from reporting false results in some cases, especially in case of PC Tools Firewall Plus Why is PC Tools Firewall Plus so special compared to others in a way it does not pass GRC's LeakTest even if the user uses the block button in PC Tools Firewall Plus's alert In case of most products on the market, when the action of outbound connection is blocked, the product cuts the connection completely and report an error message to the offending application For example if a web browser is blocked, it reports some kind of connection failure message to the user PC Tools Firewall Plus, however, does not do it that way Its developers implemented it in a way that might be considered as more polite to the end user If the connection is blocked on the machine via PC Tools Firewall Plus, it seems to the application as if the connection was successful and then any attempt to read the data from the server leads to reception of an informative message that explains that the connection was blocked by PC Tools Firewall Plus and also explains what to do to allow the blocked application to connect in case it was not the real user's intention to block it So, if the user accidentally blocked the legitimate browser application, they will see the informative message and will have no problem to fix the situation This may be considered as a better approach compared to the situation when the default error message is shown to the user, which is also displayed in case of many other error situations including the target server failure, network failure etc The problem with GRC's LeakTest is that it does not verify that it connected to the target server No proper verification is done and since it is able to read some data it suppose the firewall was penetrated while in fact it is just a message from PC Tools Firewall Plus Testing programs are important tools for developers, testers and users, but they should never be blindly trusted Unlike GRC's LeakTest, our tests in Security Software Testing Suite are designed to always verify and provide proves of the reported results if possible and even then our testers never blindly rely on the test's output http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/192726.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/192726.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-02 17:43:34 - Matousec Blog - PC Tools Firewall Plus 6 has been released The new version should come with Windows 7 support and significant improvements of application protection module We will test the new version in our next Proactive Security Challenge update Also new versions of ZoneAlarm products have been released recently The 2010 series newly supports Windows 7 In our security testing project, we will replace ZoneAlarm Pro with ZoneAlarm Extreme Security to get the best ZoneAlarm products can offer The new version will be tested soon http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/137014.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/137014.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-30 19:02:40 - Matousec Blog - A great news for all fans of Privatefirewall has been announced by its vendor PWI, Inc Since Privatefirewall 612024 the latest version at the time of this announcement , the whole product is free of charge, without any limitations Also, the new version is ready for Windows 7 Other related products of PWI, Inc including DSA free product with only a part of the functionality provided by Privatefirewall have been discontinued http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/126603.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/126603.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-23 16:44:28 - Matousec Blog - Agnitum Ltd released new versions of their Outpost products Even if this is not a major release, 67 series might be interesting for many because of its support of Microsoft's new operating system Windows 7, which final version should be available in autumn this year Another interesting improvement in new Outpost is that the content filtering is now fully compatible with P2P clients and rich-media websites http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/123986.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/123986.shtml