The Best Antivirus for 2014

With all the NSA, Edward Snowden, exomiracle and Heartbleed stories in the news, security is arguably the tech story of the year. But while these big glitzy stories are grabbing most of the attention, the most important thing you, the consumer, can do, is to perform the decidedly unglamorous but vital task of securing your own machines. And that means antivirus. All the big players have got 2014 edition products out, and some are even starting to ship 2015 editions! Many of the latest versions have morphed their appearance to match the Windows 8 style, tile-based and touch-friendly. Others remain unchanged, perhaps hoping to attract users by keeping the same familiar face.
Whether they look the same or not, most of the same products retain their positions at the top of the heap. Here are the best from the current crop of antivirus products Independent Lab Tests
I spend hours or days with every product performing hands-on testing, but the independent antivirus labs have whole squads of researchers for even more in-depth testing. I follow a half-dozen labs that perform ongoing tests and that make their results public: AV-Test, AV-Comparatives, Dennis Technology Labs, ICSA Labs, Virus Bulletin, and West Coast Labs.
I take independent testing quite seriously, and I recently worked up a new system to evaluate each product in light of its lab results. I've identified five important categories: detection, cleaning, protection, false positives, and performance. When there's enough data from the labs, I use it to calculate a star rating in each category, and an overall rating.
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As you can see in the chart below, Kaspersky and Bitdefender get really excellent scores across the board. That's certainly a good sign. Note that while Microsoft Security Essentials appears in the chart, most of the labs treat it as a baseline, not as a serious contender. Microsoft agrees; they're not trying to compete with the third-party vendors. They just want to make sure everyone has some degree of protection.
Even the independent labs don't have unlimited resources, so there's a dearth of results for some products. I'll be talking with some of the more flexible labs about the possibility of expanding the collection of products they test.
The cloud-based behavioral monitoring of Webroot SecureAnywhere Antivirus (2014)$19.99 at Webroot is wildly different from almost any other product, and it's just not compatible with many test setups. As a result, it hardly gets tested at all. That's a shame, because it's amazingly tiny and scans amazingly fast.
For a detailed description of the lab tests that I follow and of the way I summarize them into a chart like the one below, please see How We Interpret Antivirus Lab Tests.
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Hands-On Testing
For every antivirus review, I run a hands-on test of the product's ability to detect and prevent malware attacks. I also check each product's ability to detect and prevent download of the very latest malware. Starting with a feed of links from London-based MRG-Effitas, I sift out those that point directly to a malicious executable online. Using executable file links makes it easy for me to measure success. If a malicious download reaches the desktop, the antivirus failed. If it wipes out the file during download, or blocks access to the URL completely, it succeeded.
The links I use are never more than a day old, sometimes just hours old. That means each product hits a different set of links, but in every case they're extremely recent. I do plug away until I've tested about 100 links, figuring the daily differences will average out. This is definitely more real-world than my standard malware blocking test, which necessarily uses the same samples for as much as a year.
I've been running this test since November, and found a very wide range of scores. avast! Free Antivirus 2014 detected 79 percent of over 100 malicious URLs, blocking access to most at the URL level. At the other end of the spectrum are Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium 2.0 and Outpost Antivirus Pro 9.0. Malwarebytes blocked just 14 percent, a little over half at the URL level. Outpost didn't block any malicious URLs but wiped out 8 percent of the malicious executables during the download process.
The chart below shows results from both tests. For more detail on my test methods,
In the past I've run tests evaluating how well products clean up systems infested with live, active malware. An incident with GameOver Zeus co-opting my test systems for its own dastardly purposes convinced me that this kind of testing isn't as safe as it once was. I can't in good conscience keep running a test that might cause harm outside my testbed, so I'll be relying more on the independent labs. I will, of course, continue to explore and report on the tools and services that each vendor offers to handle malware that prevents antivirus installation, or subverts the scanning process.
The Best Products
The antivirus field is huge; I currently track over 45 products. In a field that big there's room for multiple products to earn the title of Editors' Choice.
Three products share the Editor's Choice honor for best overall antivirus: Bitdefender Antivirus Plus (2014)$39.95 at BitDefender, Norton AntiVirus (2014)$49.99 at Norton, and Webroot SecureAnywhere Antivirus (2014)$19.99 at Webroot. With its impressive sweep of the independent labs, Kaspersky Anti-Virus (2014)$34.95 at SoftwareMedia is another very good choice.
AVG AntiVirus FREE 2014 is our current Editors' Choice for free antivirus. It shares the top score in my hands-on malware blocking test with four others, among them Avira Free AntiVirus (2014) and FortiClient 5.0 (also free). If you can't even get antivirus installed, give Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.0 a try. It's our Editors' Choice for free, cleanup-only antivirus.
Whatever your antivirus needs, one of the more than forty tools listed here should do the job.

1OO BEST IPHONE APPLICATION

How stale are the apps on your iPhone? If you're in need of some new apps for the new year, this list of the 100 best iPhone apps can certainly point you in the right direction. From tried-and-true favorites to new releases, the apps that made this list of the 100 best cover all the bases.

Here at Mobileandpcworld and our sister siteAppScout, my colleagues and I test hundreds of mobile apps each year, writing reviews and sharing helpful tips when we find excellent apps that will improve your mobile phone experience, or just make life easier. 

Many of the apps that have made it to this list have been thoroughly tested and rated by MOBILEANDPCWORLD analysts, and when that's the case, you'll find a link to the complete review alongside a star rating.

Other apps on this list come from our own personal use as well as the advice of readers, friends, and colleagues.

Before you check out the complete list of the 100 best iPhone apps, let me address a few frequently asked questions:

100 slides? Are you kidding?
You do not have to click 100 slides to see the apps in this article. The slideshow is only one way. Another way is by using the table of contents that appears at the top right side of this block of text. You'll notice gray links that indicate different groups of apps, such as Browsers and Reference (1-7) and Utilities (16-26), and so forth. (There's also a not-so-secret print button that puts all the text on one page!)

Wait. Haven't I seen this list on Mobileandpcworld before?
You bet. We update the list frequently to reflect new apps that come out.

You left out some of the most important apps, like Safari, iTunes, and Siri! What's up with that?
Ahem, Siri is a feature of the operating system—not an app—and those others come preinstalled on iPhones. Seeing as you don't have a choice about owning them, we exclude them from the possible list of the 100 best iPhone apps.

US Court Forces Microsoft to Provide Data on Foreign Servers:

This week, a US court determined that a search warrant issued in the US is sufficient to access data that is housed offshore in another jurisdiction, putting US authorities in deeper conflict with foreign laws, especially data privacy laws in the European Union.  The case involved Microsoft®, Inc., who was asked to hand over emails stored in Ireland. Microsoft argued that the data was outside the jurisdiction of the warrant, but a US federal court disagreed. Microsoft is appealing the decision.

Like many US companies, Microsoft had deliberately created a European-based data storage facility for European Union citizens, with the presumption that data housed within the jurisdiction of the EU would safely fall under local privacy regulations. Based on the Federal court’s ruling, this may offer very little protection.

The case has profound implications for organizations using cloud-based file sharing and collaboration solutions. If the Federal court’s decision is upheld, then data that is housed outside US territories could still be subject to access by the US government and law enforcement officials.

Organizations using cloud-based file sync and share solutions have reason to be concerned. Much of the data shared using these services are subject to strict data privacy regulations. And users of these services may have a reasonable presumption that their data is being kept private. What’s the solution?

First, we should applaud Microsoft for fighting the search warrant. Only a company with Microsoft’s resources and global presence has a reasonable prospect of getting this court decision overturned.

Second, the presumption that data location provides privacy protections is clearly at risk. Organizations need to look for additional protections for their data. One answer, which we advocate, is to provide data owners with sole access to data encryption keys. Customer-managed encryption keys make sure that only the key holders have the ability to access decrypted files. Implemented correctly, the cloud provider would have no technical capability to decrypt the files if customer removes their master key(s). Under those circumstances, if a government agency were to then request data access from a cloud file storage provider, they would have no ability to provide the data.  Only the data owner would be able to respond to the request. If Microsoft had used this technology, they may have avoided the warrant’s request altoget

THE SONY ALPHA 6000. THE FASTEST FOCUS YOU CAN BUY.

The camera skips the SLR styling of some other mirrorless cameras with an integrated EVF, including the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G5$419.00 at Amazon. Instead it places the viewfinder in the corner of the camera, allowing all of the controls to slide over to the right side. It lacks the viewfinder hump that makes the Olympus E-M10 a taller camera, but it also omits the in-body image stabilization system that Olympus houses in that space; if you want stabilization, you'll need to look for E-mount lenses that bear the OSS (Optical Steady Shot) designation. There is a built-in flash—it's mounted on a hinge so you can tilt it back for indirect illumination—and a multi-function hot shoe. It can accommodate a number of accessories, including larger flashes, external microphones, and an XLR adapter for balanced audio input.

Next to the pop-up flash are the standard mode dial and a control dial. There's a modest handgrip in front of them—it's got the power switch and shutter release, as well as the programmable C1 button. The other physical controls are on the rear; the physical flash release and the Menu button sit above the rear LCD, with the remainder to its right. From top to bottom, there's the Autoexposure Lock (AEL) button, the Fn control, a control wheel with a Center button and four directional presses (Display, ISO, Exposure Compensation, Drive Mode), the Play button, and the programmable C2 button. In addition to acting as the OK control for menus, the center button (represented by a white circle on the on-screen display) activates Lock-on AF when the focus area is set to Wide or Center, and allows you to move the focus point around the LCD if you switch to Flexible Spot or Zone focus.

Tapping Fn launches an overlay menu that gives you access to a bank of 12 shooting controls, any of which can be customized. The default set duplicates some functions that have their own controls on the body (including ISO and EV compensation). But the on-body controls are also customizable, so with a little bit of time you can configure the camera to suit your shooting style.

The rear display is mounted on a hinge, and can tilt so it faces up or down. When tilted so it faces up, it can go as far as being perpendicular to the camera, but its angle is limited to about 45° when facing down—it's still possible to hold the camera over your head to grab a shot with this tilt range, and the perpendicular position is great for waist-level shooting. The display is 3 inches in size with a 921k-dot resolution; that's on par with the best cameras in this class. It's tough to notice any difference in sharpness between it and the 3-inch 1,037k-dot display found in the Olympus OM-D E-M10.

The Olympus does support touch input, which is missing from the Alpha. Touch input is useful to quickly tap the display to focus, although that's only useful if you're using the EVF. Panasonic cameras are an exception; the G5 and other models that feature a touch LCD and an EVF allow you to move your finger along the display to reposition the focus point, even as you use the EVF to frame an image. Other manufacturers have not yet copied that rather useful feature.

The Alpha 6000's 1,440k-dot electronic viewfinder doesn't pack as many pixels as the 2,359k-dot EVF used by the NEX-6 and full-frame Alpha 7$1,698.00 at Amazon, but it's still quite sharp to my eye. It's an OLED design, so its look is a bit punchy, with more contrast than you'll find in LCD EVFs like the 1,440k-dot model used by the Olympus E-M10. There is a bit of choppiness in very dim light, but it's no worse than you'll experience with the rear LCD, and it's only something you'll experience when the light gets very low. The Live View feed is acceptably smooth when shooting in the interiors of most homes.

There's an eye sensor that automatically switches between the rear LCD and the EVF, but it's got a bit of a hair trigger. If you're using the camera near your body, it turns off the LCD when the Alpha is just 3 inches away from you, and even my index finger triggered the sensor when it got within an inch. I found it to be a frequent bone of contention when using the camera in the field, and the only way to toggle between the rear LCD and EVF manually is via the menu—you can't assign that function to a custom button. A feature that would disable the EVF when the rear LCD is tilted would go a long way to rectify this issue; in the meantime you'll just need to remember to hold it a bit away from your body when shooting at waist level.

8 iPhone Battery Tips and Tricks

Now that many of us rely on our smartphones the way we rely on oxygen and electricity, battery life has become a prime concern. While the iPhone isn't a major power hog, particularly in terms of standby time, there are still situations where your battery can drain too quickly. If you have trouble making it through the day without charging up, here's what you can do right now to boost your iPhone's battery life.

One caveat before you get started: Some of the tips below defeat features you may find important. The idea isn't to completely disable everything that makes the iPhone great. Instead, it's to start from a clean slate. This way, you can figure out exactly what has been draining your battery. Follow the tips in this article, and get iPhone battery life back up to where you can get several days of standby, or at least a full day of use out of the phone. Then, once you've established that, gradually turn back on a few of the features you need most.

If, after all is said and done, your iPhone battery is still draining very quickly, then it's likely your iPhone's battery is nearing the end of its useful life. To find out if that's the case, make an appointment with a nearby Apple Store Genius Bar; they'll be able to test it for you.

1. Turn off Background Refresh for apps you don't care about. This keeps the phone active and doing things in the background, including polling the data network, which reduces battery life. Go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh, and either turn it off globally, or deactivate it for certain apps as you see fit. When you return to the app, it may take a moment longer to bring you new information, but it otherwise shouldn't have any effect on how the app works. 
2. Disable as many notifications as possible. I normally leave important ones (such as text and voicemail) intact, but for most apps, you probably don't need the phone waking up and displaying notifications all the time. Head to Settings > Notification Center, scroll down to Include and Do Not Include, tap a given category (Phone, Messages, Reminders) or app (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), and choose as few notifications as possible. The fewer you enable, the more standby time you should see. While you're in there, note that you can change the way each one appears (Alert Style) and whether it shows on the lock screen, as well as disable it entirely.

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How to Register Avast Free Antivirus to Get One Year Free License Key

in How to Lot of users ( me also) switched from AVG to Avast Free antivirus as AVG 2011 disappointed most of users by eating system resources and slowing down system performance. Avast 6 released with Auto-Sandboxing technology including for free version users, though Avast Free Antivirus is free to use, you need to register it to get one year license key otherwise your antivirus will expire after 30 days.

Registering Avast online is easy by entering your email address but you need to do this every time when you install Avast.
Though requesting registration key by filling a form is recommended for offline users, its always good to have Avast license key available (even for online users) with you to enter and activate it for one year when a case of reinstall is required.
Registering Avast to get One year free license key
1. Visit Avast Free Antivirus registration page, fill out the page by entering your email address and other mandatory details
2. After filling your details Click “Register free license”, you get a message that “registration was successful”  license key will be send to your email address with in 24 hours after the registration.
3. When you get license key in your email address, copy it Open Avast User interface click “Maintenance” on the left side of screen to expand and click “Registration” click Insert the license key” shown at the bottom of the screen and enter it to get one year free protection from Avast.