In the anti-malware world, you may hear the term APT which is short for Advanced Persistent Threat. It sounds like a complicated buzzword. What is it really? Before we start talking about what an “advanced” persistent threat is, let’s just start with a plain ol’ persistent threat. In computer science, the term “persistence” is generally […]
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Bronze Winner – Best in Biz Awards PC Matic has been named a bronze winner in Best New Product of the Year – SMB in Best in Biz Awards, the only independent business awards program judged by members of the press and industry analysts. The sixth annual program in North America garnered more than 600
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Proactive Detection Rates Over Last 12 Months As technology advances, you would think your anti-virus would too, right? After all, that too is technology. However Stu Sjouwerman from KnowBe4, recently posted an article regarding the plummeting proactive detection rates for most security solutions. Stu stated, “You would expect that with modern machine-learning techniques, proactive protection
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PC Pitstop, makers of PC Matic, are proud to share that PC Matic received a top score in the recent Malware Blocking Test. This test was conducted by Neil Rubenking, lead security analyst for PC Magazine. Rubenking shared in his recent review of G Data Antivirus 2017, his methodology of collecting the malicious URLs. Rubenking stated, “For
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In April 2016, we released PC Matic’s Super Shield 2.0 engine at no additional cost. There were numerous improvements in the new engine. Super Shield 2.0 Improvements enhanced signature based detections enhanced hash based detections enhanced DLL detections 100% internally developed and implemented eliminating our reliance on Vipre’s black list engine new script based detections
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November 30, 2016 – PC Matic has been named a bronze winner in Best New Product of the Year – SMB in Best in Biz Awards, the only independent business awards program judged by members of the press and industry analysts. Developed, researched, and supported in the U.S., PC Matic is the only trusted security
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THE RANSOMWARE THREAT IS ESCALATING AND IS A THREAT TO OUR WAY OF LIFE… PDF Version of this Post Available Here: https://www.pcpitstop.com/PDF/Ransomware/ Who is Rob? Hi. I’ve had a great career and a great life. After college, I moved to Austin, TX to work for Texas Instruments (TI) responsible for international material requirements planning. I
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This week, Tech Sentry Endpoint Suite makes Network World’s Product of the Week….
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Researchscape surveyed 275 IT experts in the month of January and the results are surprising…
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Solid state drivers (SSDs) have been around for years, yet their popularity has continued to increase.