Friday, June 01, 2007

eEye beefs up with antivirus defenses

Internet security software company eEye is now offering free antivirus defense with its Blink Personal Internet Security suite.

The suite is mainly targeted towards individual consumers and those that use the Internet in a home office environment.

Included in the suite are multiple antivirus scanning engines, personal firewall, antispyware, antiphishing defenses, intrusion-protection and patch detection functions.

Marc Maiffret, eEye's founder and chief technical officer, said: "The sheer number and diversity of security threats is overwhelming for most consumers. "Blink Personal with anti-virus is the first Internet security offering to include all the protection a consumer needs while allowing for new features to be added incrementally."

Consumers do not want to buy new security software for every threat, they only want one product, which is capable of protecting their personal information, added Mr. Maiffret. The California-based eEye also offers a corporate product, called the Blink Professional Edition with Antivirus. Meanwhile, a new email attack is being used by hackers which pretends to be a message from Microsoft offering the recipient a trial of Internet Explorer 7, software security company Sophos has warned.

"As governments and the private sector face a growing threat of cyber attacks and network security vulnerabilities, organizations must focus not only on protection, but minimizing downtime," states Mark Weibel, EVP of Marketing for Broadband National Inc. who operates the Internets leading comparative shopping website for digital products and services. "Today’s business environment necessitates 24x7 availability of critical applications, forcing IT administrators to perform maintenance and security updates in an ever-shrinking window of time."

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