14 DAY TRIAL // The famous security company Symantec released a new security software solution that is meant to fight against the dangerous bots spreading on the Internet. Norton AntiBot is valued at $29.99, including a one-year subscribtion to Symantec' updates and latest threat definitions. This new application is able to track the applications running to protect computers; it also blocks and removes the dangerous processes before they manage to harm the operating system. As you know, the bots are continuously growing up and, according to Symantec, there were reported approximately 6 million dangerous bots in the last 6 months of 2006.
"Consumers need to know that they may be directly implicated in the criminal activities being perpetrated by botnets -- if not by having their own identity or personal information stolen, then by being part of a network of zombie PCs carrying out large scale criminal activities like massive spam distribution and phishing email schemes," said Rowan Trollope, senior vice president, Consumer Products Division, Symantec.
"We're estimating millions upon millions of bot-infected PCs in existence today, with the vast majority of these users having no idea of what's going on behind the scenes of their own computer. Norton AntiBot is an important new tool for strengthening consumer security and stopping these insidious threats."
Norton AntiBot will be soon integrated into Symantec's security suits such as Norton Antivirus or Norton Internet Security.
Symantec is one of the most powerful security companies on the Internet but sometimes, a famous name is not enough to protect the vulnerable users. Take the example of the recently-reported trouble concerning Symantec when its antivirus solution wrongly flagged some Windows files as dangerous and quarantined them. Obviously, the operating system was damaged and some Chinese users were unable to use their computer. As a compensation, Symantec offered several freeware licenses for its top security tools but only to the affected consumers.