The security experts at Agnitum, the leading firewall provider, announced the availability of Outpost Antivirus Pro, offering an extended security arsenal to protect users against malware infection, identity theft, and websites that may be hosting malicious content. In a new twist, the company is offering Outpost Antivirus Pro at a flat annual subscription fee rather than the license-plus-annual renewals model that has become the industry standard.

Symantec Corp , makers of Norton security software, today announced the new Norton AntiVirus Dual Protection for Mac, featuring vulnerability protection technology and antivirus for Mac users running Boot Camp or Windows virtualization software -- programs that allow users to run both Mac OS X Leopard and Windows operating systems.

Although some time ago Google announced that, unfortunately, China was one of the greatest hosting platform for malicious Web sites, some good news were (still) provided by China’s Internet engine company Baidu.com Inc.There is Free Chinese Online Antivirus !

AVG Technologies is the latest antivirus producer which offers link-scanning technique in it's security suite.AVG Internet Security 8.0 also adds protection to Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers against so-called drive-by downloads, protects file exchanges over MSN and ICQ instant messengers, comes with a new firewall and a new anti-rootkit shield.

F-Secure has released an updated version of their Online FREE Virus Scanner Version 3.3 Beta and this product lives up to it's name. However, an Online Scanner solution can never replace a real anti-virus product which provides real-time protection against viruses, automatic updates with very quick response time, memory scanning and usually has a firewall and several other protection mechanisms integrated.

Reductions reflect GFI’s belief in providing quality solutions at unbeatable prices.GFI Software, an international developer of network security, content security and messaging software, announced today that it has cut its prices on the majority of products by up to 45%. This is being done to reflect GFI’s longstanding belief in providing companies in the SMB sphere with quality products at unbeatable prices.

BitDefender has beefed up the capability of its online scanner to incorporate Antispyware functionality. The modifications include a redesigned interface to simplify installation, help usability and increase the level of protection.Commenting on the update, BitDefender CTO Bogdan Dumitru said: “BitDefender Labs is constantly trying to find more ways to enhance user experience. This is an example of our efforts to continuously improve all lines of BitDefender products.”

IObit and Grisoft Inc began working together to release AVG Professional Editions for free . Free licensed AVG Anti-Virus Professional Edition, AVG Anti-Spyware or AVG Internet Security can be obtained from IObit. Plus, AVG professional security products, promise the users complete protection.

Starting this Wednesday, a new Mobile Security product became available for the UIQ platform. The product belongs to world’s leader security service provider via mobile operators and Internet Service Providers – namely F-Secure Corporation, which is joining a partnership on supplying mobile security to Sony Ericsson's smartphones.

Kaspersky launches new anti-spam and anti-malware service called Kaspersky Hosted Security Services which targets the average companies.

As the senior technology consultant for Kaspersky David Em said that the vendor's anti-malware engine will be used to scan email. An antivirus engine and behavioural technology called Bithunt is included into the technology that can also put the suspicious messages in quarantine and identify subject-line terms.