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Facebook is offering its users a 6-month free trial of McAfee and promoting it heavily , and even forcing people to run a scan before they can reactivate a hacked account. They’re “not aware of another free Internet service that takes this much responsibility for helping people keep their accounts secure.” (Didn’t Google promote McAfee through Google Pack at one point') I think this is a laudable...Source : WordPress Planet (subscribe)Explore : Open Source, Operating Systems, Privacy and Legal Issues, Software, Technology

In a major move, Facebook has made a deal with McAfee in order to improve security of the social network. As an anti-virus software maker, McAfee has been around for years as a personal computer service. Now McAfee is helping to protect an entire network from malware, a point of dire stress for [...]Source : bub.blicio.us (subscribe)Explore : Facebook, Technology Blogs

The SuperDAT utility allows you to upgrade your scanning engine and your virus signature (DAT) files. The regular DAT (X-DAT) utility only updates the DAT files. New engines are only created as needed, approximately every 3 to 6 months, so updating with the SuperDAT is not always necessary. Trusted by individual users and large companies alike, McAfee VirusScan is the world's premier virus...Source : Dailydu Blog (subscribe)

Researchers at McAfee labs monitor Koobface activities 24/7 via custom honeypots and while reviewing one such update we noticed a variant that had debug/log features. Unlike the traditional captcha breaking technique to create new accounts, this variant of the worm converts the infected machine to a bot. When we analysed the malware trapped in our botnet, [...]Source : McAfee Avert Labs (subscribe)

Facebook and McAfee have joined hands to provide their valued customers online security. Social networking site users will be benefiting the most by this new cleanup service. McAfee Internet has closed a very positive and beneficial ...

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McAfee will also continuously update its own Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/mcafee), which features the offer on the “Protect Your PC” tab as well as security information on “Protect Your Kids” and “Security Notes” tabs. ...

I bought and downloaded the McAfee (AntiVirus Plus 2010) yesterday at Office Depot. When I got home, I turn on the computer and I saw that it was updating.

(To get real time updates on this story follow George on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/george_kurtzCTO). (Update: Added detail on IE 6 being a primary attack vector at 1.55 PM PT on 01/14/10) (Update 2: Added link to Microsoft ...