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Question by Salman Z: How to activate Panda Internet Security 2009 on a 2nd computer?
Hi!
I have just bought and registered Panda Internet Security 2009 from Panda’s website. Now i have 2 licenses left i can use on other computers. How do i activate the anti virus on another computer?

Best answer:

Answer by ♥ debby d ♥
You will have to install the program on that computer as well.

What do you think? Answer below!

by Sergey Galyonkin

How to Compare Antivirus Software?

There’s an influx of antivirus software in the internet these days. Antivirus software are everywhere in the internet. Article about them are also common. The problem with having too much of one thing is that you will have a hard time selecting the good from the bad. To come up with a list of possible choices one has to compare antivirus software. Comparing is not easy, considering the number of antivirus to compare. Many website are there to help with comparison but they only compare a few. They focus their comparison to selected antivirus that are already there for many years. How about those antivirus software that have just recently started but may also have the ability to perform well? They don’t have the chance to be tested and be proven competitive with the popular ones.

Popularity

There should be a means to compare antivirus software not based on popularity but with their ability to thwart virus attacks. I have read articles that compare antivirus software and they are impressive. They test antivirus software based on how they detect known virus. Many antivirus software fared very well. Others did not do well because they were not able to detect new virus. The problem is that they limit their comparison to a chosen few. What about those that are left out? How will they be given a chance?

Who says So?

There are also those who compare antivirus software based on what the company that made them has to say about their product. I don’t know if this is reliable enough. There are people who claim to have done something but if you ask them to do it they can’t. There are just too many people who tell lies this days. I don’t say that all of them are liars but who would know the difference between an honest company from a lying one. They all write pretty good things about their products. Who would say bad things about something they themselves made?

Who’s Initiative?

The initiative to compare antivirus software should come from people other that those who made it or have any vested interest about it. The objective of the comparison should be to help people in choosing the right antivirus and not to promote one. People would love to know the truth about antivirus. There are already so much antivirus out there. It’s already difficult to know all of them. Another product profile may turn buyers off. What people need is honest, comprehensive, fair and accurate comparison of antivirus software based on performance and ability to protect computers from virus attacks.

It may take a long time before anyone can compare antivirus software comprehensively. That would be very difficult to do considering that there are so much of these products in the market today. There are also many things to consider. A definite plan should be established first before the factual, realistic and unbiased way to compare antivirus software is realized.

For now to determine which antivirus software is right for you should visit http://www.antivirusreviews.ws for honest Antivirus Software Reviews

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by airchuck88

Want to Know How Mcafee “siteadvisor” Makes Money On You? See If you Are One of the Targets!

The company “Smart PC Solutions”, a developer of easy to use solutions for the optimization of your PC, has become the victim of a negative rating on Mcafee’s “SiteAdvisor” just like many other sites, most having no idea that they have received a negative review or why. This causes direct financial losses for many companies but in actuality it redistributes money in favor of McAfee, which sells its anti-virus solutions to terrified users who do not delve very deeply into the details and believe the unjustified ratings.

This is an obvious case of unfair competition via their security software sales promotion by destroying other companies’ goodwill.

McAfee’s “SiteAdvisor” assigns a color to each site to indicate safe, caution, or warning ratings sometimes based only on average users’ comments (besides other things). A big red cross (warning) definitely states the presence of a virus and/or spyware activity on the rated site. Their motto reads as follows: “Protection from Adware, Spam and Viruses”. Here comes the surprise: the company “Smart PC Solutions” has nothing to do with spreading viruses yet it has received a rating of a Big Red Cross - beware of the virus threat! Most of the software provided on “Smart PC Solutions” is freeware utilities and sometimes users fail to achieve the desired results as two customers’ comments have testified. The majority of the user feedback on “Smart PC Solutions” has been positive and appreciative. Do you know where McAfee placed the comments on the performance of the “Free Data Recovery” utilities? They put them in the “Bad Shopping Experience” section. Amazing! Do you see any logic here? “Smart PC Solutions” supplies Free Data Recovery software (worth over .00) for FREE (as well as many other useful things)! The first question to McAfee is: “What does shopping have to do with the Free Data Recovery products?” Let’s go further and raise the second question to McAfee: “What does a shopping experience have to do with the virus warning rating?” Where did they find products containing viruses or spyware on the http://www.smartpctools.com site? McAfee misleads or intentionally deceives people, by intimidating them with erroneous negative ratings that could present a case for litigation. Now a question to the readers: “Do you still trust this system of evaluation?” There is an interesting fact that the Siteadvisor.com site itself has a significant number of negative evaluations by users but the site is not marked with even a “Caution”! Draw your own conclusions!

As the owner of “Smart PC Solutions”, I wrote a letter to McAfee’s legal department requesting a removal of the negative rating, but was astonished by a reply from an official representative of McAfee stating that they put us in the same basket with spyware producers because some public association has rated our FREE anti-spyware solution as “not strong enough” and that it contains advertising of our other products. Information about that was found in one user comment. So what? We have created our own anti-spyware solution for our customers to remove widespread unwanted components. We do not pretend to be the leader in this field. This was not our aim. Here is the third question to McAfee: Since when has market evaluation been entrusted to random researchers and public associations in such an important matter as issuing guilty or not-guilty verdicts! There is not a word about this on McAfee’s site! Recently, several “independent evaluators” have emerged mooching on the anti-spyware market, and it is a well-known fact that they often are consultants for anti-spyware companies so their opinions could potentially be biased towards one developer or another.

I wonder if many of your users understand that by trusting McAfee, they trust various paranoid evaluators, whose true interests are dubious. When making a deal with McAfee you, as their customers, did not intend to deal with a club of amateurs and individual exterminators. When buying a car, you do not enter into a contract with a club of energy-saving engine fans or a club of some brand-name fans, and you do not allow them to dictate conditions!

There are millions of sites on the Internet now, thousands are emerging and disappearing every day. As an IT expert and company owner, I am curious as to how SiteAdvisor is able to rate them and update their database in real time since it is an enormous amount of information. They found a simple solution - they rely on users’ comments posted on SiteAdvisor. Users already observe a slow-down in their PC’s operation when the system is installed! As a matter of fact, McAfee bought SiteAdvisor as early as April 2006, and my guess is that the workload will keep increasing. The problem is partially solved by users, who produce ratings and who McAfee relies on. This is too simple and unreliable a solution for such a responsible matter! The fact is that the company labels one site or another as potentially hazardous for it’s own reasons, not on the recommendation of users-evaluators. This is the ultimate truth of the project, which in fact smells like slender. As far as site development is concerned, I have the following perspective: We have an obvious case of redistribution in the anti-spyware solutions market. Where the market disposition does not exist, it is being created. There has been a significant rise in the number of passionate users’ rights activists with a maniac attitude. Their real motivation is very questionable. The problem is largely forged to pump up anti-spyware hysteria, to frighten users and then sell them a “solution” to the problem. This is unfair moneymaking. McAfee earns as much as you lose from users avoiding your site being scared away by fake ratings designed simply to sell them a security solution. If you are not a site owner, you will buy their security solution when you see the fake warning ratings. In both cases regular customers bring their money to the anti-virus company.

Microsoft, possessing much more powerful resources, does not attempt to evaluate all sites. It simply created an inexpensive and effective solution, Windows Live OneCare, as the market leader ought to. In view of unprecedented success of this solution, McAfee was left with nothing to do but to take up emergency measures to secure its market share. This is a clumsy attempt to retain the vanishing market. With such an approach they will first lose the credibility of software developers like “Smart PC Solutions” and then the users, who will see their fake ratings and notice how benign sites get negative reviews unfairly.

One can get a negative rating on SiteAdvisor just for a link to a site that is considered hazardous by them. It would be good if there was a uniform policy for everyone, but unfortunately this is not the case, and the policy is indeed selective. SiteAdvisor does not analyze the context of a given linked site. It is simply impossible to do for the entire Web. The selective policy of Site Advisor is clearly represented by the positive ranking given to a huge social network called MySpace. This social network has over a million user accounts, and there have been cases when spyware developers spread infected video files on the pages of MySpace users. Right in the comments of this site, there is a link to a report by the famous anti-virus company, Sunbelt, about finding infected video files in the MySpace system. Here is a paradox: SiteAdvisor does not take the information of a reputed company into a consideration. In the case of “Smart PC Solutions”, the opinion of a “random observer” is taken into a consideration! A lot of negative responses about the system are given in the comments on the site. The same selective policy is observed with the well-known American software registration service Plimus.com, defamed by SiteAdvisor and marked as hazardous as a result of links to sites not related to the company. There is no single negative user’s comment! All comments read that Plimus is safe for online purchasing!

In my opinion, SiteAdvisor pursues a selective policy because it fears potential legal actions by big and reputed companies knowing the full truth about its system of rating. I think lawsuits will follow soon.

It is clear that McAfee has just recently acquired SiteAdvisor, and that there is a need to scare the public, but they have done it at the expense of many small site owners. I think there will be an upsurge of anger from business owners who suffer losses from unfair ratings.

Make an experiment of your own - test your favorite information sites, movie and music stars’ sites and share this article with your friends. Let us know if you do or do not agree with the SiteAdvisor ratings. Share your opinions and stories with us. Speak out now, and your comments and stories will be published on the http://www.smartpctools.com/truth web page.

Users’ new articles and voting results will be regularly published here. Visit our site if you want to see the real picture and express your own opinion!

by George Eastman House

Walling Data Secures State-of-the-Art School Network with AVG Anti-Virus

Hickory, NC – April 24th, 2009 - The Chambers County Board of Education prides itself on operating some of Alabama’s most high-tech, state-of-the-art information technology systems. The Board oversees 11 schools in the Valley and LaFayette areas, including six elementary schools, two middle schools, two secondary schools, and a cutting-edge business/industry certified career technical center. Nine of the county’s 10 schools are certified by the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges (SACS), a body founded in 1895 to improve education throughout the American South through accreditation, and the 10th is close to completing the accreditation process.

William Groover, the district’s technology director, leads the school system’s efforts in providing a technology environment that will adequately prepare students for tomorrow’s job market. At the classroom level, this manifests itself as a better-than-average ratio of students to computers. In addition, Groover manages the 1,400 workstations and 68 servers that serve the district’s 450 faculty and staff members and 4,200 students.

AVG: Still the Leader of the Pack

This past fall, the district was nearing the end of its license agreement for AVG Anti-Virus Network Edition.  While Groover and his staff were satisfied with AVG’s protection and ease of use, they decided it would be prudent to re-test it against the latest iterations from the other major anti-virus suppliers.   

“To keep our network at the cutting edge, we needed to be sure AVG was keeping its edge as well,” said Groover. “So, we put it through its paces alongside Computer Associates, McAfee, Trend Micro, and Symantec.”

Groover was delighted to learn after the tests were complete that AVG was still head-and-shoulders above the rest of the pack.

“AVG wasn’t the cheapest solution, nor was it the most expensive, but the combination of the overall performance, strength, value for money, and ease of use proved that it was still the best anti-virus product for our school system,” he concluded.

One area in particular about the other products that concerned Groover about was the tendency towards incomprehensible and/or misplaced error messages.

“AVG software tells you when there is something wrong, and you can trust that when it raises a flag, there is something that needs to be looked at,” he noted. “AVG doesn’t give you error messages that are unwarranted, unlike other anti-virus products.”

Groover is also sold on the simplicity of AVG’s network management capabilities.

“AVG’s ease of management is a huge plus for us. It is such a benefit to be able to selectively target which workstations AVG will be pushed out to and then do so from one centralized location,” he added.

Walling Data Leads the Pack, Too

After deciding to renew their subscription to AVG Anti-Virus Network Edition, Groover contacted the distributor from whom they’d purchased their current licenses.

“Last time we renewed our subscription, we went with an overseas vendor,” said Groover. “But this time I was less than impressed. I placed several calls to their offices and never got a response. There was clearly little point in continuing to work with them, so I decided to look for another experienced AVG distributor.”

After a quick swing around the AVG website, Groover learned that Walling Data was the leading distributor of AVG solutions to the Education marketplace, so he gave them a call.

“We were delighted to find that Walling could not only give us a great discount on our educational license but would give us unlimited technical support at no extra cost,” recalled Groover. “A lot of companies offer free support for a certain time period, but with Walling there was no question about it – you call them anytime you need help and they are there for you.”

Walling Data is the longest-standing and highest-volume distributor of AVG Technologies solutions in North America. The company is also the only distributor to offer all its customers – resellers and end-users - free, unlimited, U.S.-based pre- and post-sales support.

Groover and his team is currently deploying the AVG upgrade across their networks

“We had some initial questions about setting up the software and rolling it out, but after talking to the Walling support team, everything is moving along just fine,” said Groover. “We like the new version – and our new supplier – a whole lot better.”

For more information on purchasing AVG Anti-Virus Network Edition products from Walling Data, or to learn more, visit http://www.avgantivirus.com

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About Walling Data
Founded in 1994, N.C.-based Walling Data is a value-added distributor of technology products for resellers, small businesses, and education and government institutions.  Walling Data was the nation’s first distributor of AVG security products and today is the highest-volume distributor for the product in North America, with more than 50,000 satisfied customers.  Walling is also the only value-added distributor for Cymphonix Network Composer, an award-winning device that helps companies control and monitor users compliance with internet usage policies. Additionally, the company has recently become a distributor of CyberPatrol’s parental control and business-grade web filtering solutions. Walling Data provides free, unlimited, U.S.-based phone and “we-do-it-for-you” remote support for all of its customers. For more information, visit www.wallingdata.com and www.avgantivirus.com

 About AVG Technologies
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AVG is a global security solutions leader protecting more than 80 million consumers and small business computer users in 167 countries from the ever-growing incidence of web threats, viruses, spam, cyber-scams and hackers on the Internet. Headquartered in Amsterdam, AVG has nearly two decades of experience in combating cyber crime and one of the most advanced laboratories for detecting, pre-empting and combating Web-borne threats from around the world. Its free online, downloadable software model allows entry-level users to gain basic anti-virus protection and then to easily and inexpensively upgrade to greater levels of safety and defense in both single and multi-user environments. Nearly 6,000 resellers, partners and distributors team with AVG globally including Amazon.com, CNET, Cisco, Ingram Micro, Play.com, Wal-Mart, and Yahoo!.

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