By including Next Generation antivirus protection from DriveSentry in Security Centre, Microsoft® customers are finally protected from the very latest virus threats. Known as Zero day threats, they are the preferred method of identity theft on the web. However even these are thwarted with significant ease by the technology known as whitelisting.

Consumers need to use all the tools available to proactively fight today's creative, technologically-savvy identity thieves. Without the appropriate tools for protecting personal information and keeping it out of criminals' hands, more consumers will likely join the list of millions of identity theft victims in the United States.

Dr. Joe Campana a privacy and information security expert and author of a book on privacy and information security, Privacy MakeOver: The Essential Guide to Best Practices , recently produced a short video for National Data Privacy Day 2009, "Stealing Social Security Numbers on the Web" , which demonstrates how easy it is to access Social Security Numbers on government Web sites. Campana produced and published the video to bring this common risk to the attention of consumers.

QFX Software Corporation today released a new upgrade for KeyScrambler®, adding three most popular MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) games, World of Warcraft, Runescape, EVE-Online, and the most popular game distribution platform, Steam, to the long list of apps supported by its paid editions, KeyScrambler Professional and KeyScrambler Premium.

Panda Security and tyBit Unified Search Join Forces Worldwide to Combat Cybercrime and the Spread of Malicious Malware. By placing Panda Security's incomparable Internet protection software directly inside the tyBit Unified Search toolbar, the two companies have created an unheard of level of security for a Web browser toolbar that already provided users with unprecedented search capabilities.

Cyber-criminals are using accounts that are likely stolen to post comments with links supposedly pointing to videos of celebrities such as Christian Bale, Megan Fox or Jessica Simpson. Users that try to watch these videos will be asked to download a codec. This codec, however, is just a copy of VideoPlay adware.

My Privacy Tools, Inc. announced today the release of Hide My IP 2009, the latest version of the popular Windows-based anonymous web surfing software. This latest edition brings new features and improvements over previous versions of the software.

Sunbelt Software, a leading provider of Windows security software, today announced the top ten most prevalent spyware and malware threats for the month of January 2009. The report, compiled from monthly scans performed by Sunbelt's award-winning antispyware tool, CounterSpy™, and its new anti-malware solution, VIPRE™ Antivirus + Antispyware , is a service of the Sunbelt Software Malware Research Labs.

OpenDNS, provider of the award-winning service that makes the Internet safer, faster, smarter and more reliable, today announced it has teamed with leading antivirus company Kaspersky Lab to fight the wide-spread Conficker virus. The effort to fight Conficker uses the newly introduced OpenDNS Botnet Protection feature, which provides network administrators visibility into the networks they operate and sends notification if the Conficker Windows worm has successfully penetrated their network.

PC Dynamics, Inc., is pleased to announce the public preview release of SafeHouse Explorer, the newest member of its award-winning SafeHouse family of PC privacy and encryption  products. SafeHouse Explorer is free encryption software designed for USB memory sticks.