RSSMcAfee to Offer Integrated Security App
By Ed Oswald | Published May 30, 2006, 11:57 AM
McAfee took the covers off a new integrated consumer security platform Tuesday, code-named "Falcon." Under development for the past year, the offering combines the company's antivirus, anti-spyware, and "threat watch" technologies.
The entire suite of products will be manageable from a single access point, which McAfee said was a common complaint in its research. Additionally, the "threat watch" capabilities would be able to proactively act on suspicious activity.
"'Falcon' builds upon McAfee's leadership in making great security and protection nearly transparent to the user and takes consumer security to an entirely new level," product management director Marc Solomon said in the announcement.
Falcon will include technology called SystemGuard, which is behavior-based. It will look for certain behaviors that may indicate virus, spyware or hacker activity, and alert the consumer before the issue does damage. Additionally, X-Ray would detect and kill rootkits, as well as malicious programs that attempt to hide themselves.
The new software also include services to help manage security across home networks. Through the central console, a user would also be able to monitor the security status of other computers on the network. Falcon will assist the user in setting up secure networks as well, simplifying a confusing task for many first-time wireless network users.
Acknowledging that some may want more control and detail, Falcon would provide the standard basic view as well as an option to view more advanced features. The advanced view will allow for greater fine tuning of individual settings, the company said.
"With the launch of 'Falcon' this summer, we have integrated into our award-winning products powerful, yet easy to use protection that addresses both existing and emerging threats," Solomon continued.
for low cpu and memory usage, good detections, Kaspersky Internet Security is one of the best Integrated Security Apps available. Bitdefender, F-Secure are good alternatives
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|Kaspersky Internet Security is the very best intergrated solution on the market and it is indeed very hard to beat. Take a closer look at it.
http://www.kaspersky.com/kis6
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|hmmm still no support for IPv6 in their desktop firewall app ... what a bummer ... better stick with FreeBSD + pfSense firewall + clam AV + firefox w/ adblock plus, dutchblock & noscript extensions ... all are free :D
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|Never really bothered with the mcaffe suite of programs, but to be honest i look on it with same logic i use for most things. One company might make an awesome product, but suck with another. I much prefer to get each essential apps ( AV, Antispyware and firewall ) from whatever company i find after some research to establish what i want it to do with comparison to the reviews.
I have tried most of the companys and as yet have not found one company to provide all 3 effectivly. Most Antispyware programs as part of suites are quite laughable, and really are just a bolt on to aid marketing. The outpost antispyware is an example of a really bog standard mish mash of spyware detection for the most common threats.
The dissadvantage of getting all 3 from the same company is that the detection for any nasties will be similar or the same for both. With the line between what AV and Antispyware find being broken down with both detecting certain nasties, its much better to have another detection engine.
Most Viruses kill the detection engine, and the suites are in a vunerable position to have a complete compromise in security should anything slip by.
For those who are interrested, I frequent the more risky sites and as yet have not had any problems. Id say my settup is quite secure.
Im behind a NAT router and use use Zone alarm pro, AVG Pro, Webroots Spysweeper, Spyware Doctor and win patrol. All OS and Application updates are done on a regular basis. And of course use Opera as my browser :P
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|You can drop *all* of those programs, use Windows Firewall, and NOD32.
I can imagine the performance hit you're taking running all those apps. Hope you've got a good system.
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|If this product is same as the McAfee suite that came with all Dell computer then it's going to be crap. It's slow and slow down your computer. It took like 3 visits to Add/Remove panel to removed it. And not only that, you have to stop its service before you can uninstall it. I bet majority of the XP users don't know how to stop a service.
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|lol, i'll bet money this new one will be worse
EDIT: seriously, i'll drop $100 on it right now... ahh someone should make "will-software-suck-gambling!"
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|"Through the central console, a user would also be able to monitor the security status of other computers on the network."
Not your "typical" security suite by the looks of it. I doubt I'll ever try it; I'm quite content with NOD32 and Outpost Pro combined with a router. Ad Muncher provides a nice touch to my surfing experience as well.
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|Why you want to get involved with this program when we have BitDefender. I belive the best in the market.
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|Yeah, because for a one-time $64.95 and $48.71 a year, I can get the same or less protection than I get having spent a one-time $40, and $30 a year?
Yeah. Okay.
Sorry, I'll stick with what I got. Anti-virus, anti-spy, anti-you-name-it.
And I't put money down it's faster, smaller, and more accurate.
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|You sure are pushing a product, that is very low marketing presence..
You must work for them.. are you attempting MLM?
You get commission every time you mention that product or what?
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|Under development for the past year, the offering combines the company's antivirus, anti-spyware, and "threat watch" technologies.
Glad they're adding it. They've been behind on this for a while.
My question: Is it all one programn, or is this a suite of programs?
If it's an all-in-one program, I'd be interested in taking a look. Otherwise, I'll let it slide. The app I currently use does all three with a small footprint and low resource usage.
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|"The entire suite of products will be manageable from a single access point, which McAfee said was a common complaint in its research"
From the looks of that it looks like a Suite (Several Programs) But Managed by One.
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|May I ask what app that is? I'm just curious.
Right now, I'm using all freeware apps, but I'm looking to buy something soon.
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|I too would be interested. I recently upgraded Symantec AntiVirus from v9.0 to v10.0 and witnessed a huge decrease in system performance, a larger memory footprint, and laughable malware/spyware protection (the detection was fine, it just wouldn't remove the items). I'm currently using AVG v7.0, which I'm a little suspect of.
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|never trusted such suits as all-in-one - firewall,av,spyware,etc
for experienced users it`s always better the separate chioce, like agnitum outpost and KAV, or
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|http://www.eset.com/products/index.php
100% ITW protection (In The Wild), which means it doesn't have to be in the virus database for it to get caught.
It's one of the, if not *the* smallest AIO anti-malware app out there, in temrs of actual HD space, and resource usage.
$39 to buy.
$27.30 renewal.
Yeah, it's not free. But it's better than the free options, and better (and cheaper) than most of the pay options.
I know I sound like a friggin' ad, but you asked. :P
I've gotten most of my relatives using it, as well as our sales-force here. I might reconsider if it ever fails me, or anyone I know, but it hasn't yet.
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