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BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative Internet security solutions, announced today the results of a new study which focused on the different aspects of social interaction on social networks. The study also examined the different levels of exposure to security risks social network face when it comes to having knowledge of e-threats targeting these online
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BitDefender, an award-winning provider of innovative internet security solutions, offers evidence supporting the close connection between the Twitter  scam reported by the Sophos naked security blog and a similar Facebook scam.   The BitDefender online threats team traced one of the URLs used to spread the “#howlong” Twitter attack and, based on the advanced statistics provided by bit.ly., managed
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  Breaking new ground in efforts to address the security challenges facing small and medium-sized businesses(SMBs), BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative internet security solutions, today launched a new version of its BitDefender Business Solutions.  The latest release includes features that make deploying and managing anti-virus protection easier within the network environment– while improving the ability to detect and
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   BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative internet security solutions, today announced the launch of BitDefender Partner Advantage Network, a new channel partner program designed to accelerate partner revenue growth and market expansion. With the BitDefender Partner Advantage Network, the company is moving aggressively to better empower the reseller community to capitalize on growth opportunities in IT security, offering
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 BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative internet security solutions, is taking a new approach to safe browsing with today’s launch of TrafficLight, a real-time anti-virus and anti-phishing web scanner that, unlike most web safety solutions, is not a browser toolbar and does not rely on users to rate visited pages.   TrafficLight is browser-independent software that filters web
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   January 24, 2011 – BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative Internet security solutions, announced today the results that show that Internet pornography remains a main source of e-threats. BitDefender’s study, which exposes data security risks and implications when accessing adult content web sites,confirms that 63% of the users attempting to find adult content on
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   Malware that targets social networks such as Facebook is platform-independent and is as widely spread as malware that targets PCs, warned BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative Internet security solutions. According to goo.gl statistics, one of the URLs used for the propagation of a recent massive Facebook scam – promising to show users a
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BUCHAREST, Romania – January 13, 2011 - BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative internet security solutions, has announced a free removal tool targeting the Backdoor.Lavandos.A, a resourceful malware that steals FTP and e-banking passwords in the most discreet manner.   Even though its primarily target is the e-banking system used especially by Russian and Ukrainian institutions, Lavandos does not stop at just
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 BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative internet security solutions, today announced the full release of BitDefender QuickScan, an advanced online tool used for detecting malware running on computers. This new tool adds new features to keep users secure, and along with a revamped website, to provide clear information about threats. The online service provides an easy-to-use alternative to traditional
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  BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative internet security solutions, and BitTorrent Inc.,a technology company engineering transformative new products to accelerate the discovery, distribution and delivery of large files over the Internet, have partnered to safeguard users from malware when downloading media files across the Internet. The new Virus Guard application, available to millions of BitTorrent
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