Repair Windows in few seconds – RestoreX review

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RestoreX Pro is software for home users, business and corporate used to resolve 10,000+ known problems with the operation of Windows in just couple of seconds. It can be applied to environments where there is a frequent need to roll back changes (restore to a specific state), and downtime should be minimized as much as […]

Product Of The Year 2024 – Recommended solutions for securing Windows

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Advanced In-The-Wild Malware Test Summary The purpose of this summary is to reward those developers whose software in 2023 participated in tests initiated by the AVLab Foundation for Cybersecurity. The special Product of the Year 2024 award is a good opportunity to encourage people in IT managerial positions, heads of technology and security, whose role […]

TOP7 Windows components used by malicious software in January 2024

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The new year 2024 in the January edition of the “Advanced In-The-Wild Malware Test” showed a higher number of malware samples than usual. According to our observations, based on the collected telemetry data from the test, this may be due to the above-average activity of malicious code authors who place their samples in the form […]

Windows 10 Pro under attack: Advanced In-The-Wild Malware Test in November 2023

Advanced In-The-Wild Malware Test in November 2023

This is the last edition of the long-term series “Advanced In The Wild Malware Test” in 2023. During this multi-month analysis, conducted 6 times a year in a real environment, we focus on evaluating the effectiveness of software to secure Windows against realistic threats originating from various sources on the Internet. November 2023 was marked […]

Analysis of modules for protection of online banking and payments

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Why online payments protection is so important? Dedicated protection for online payments is designed to secure your finances, personal data, and protect you against cybercrime. Thanks to it, you take the protection of banking services and online transactions to a higher level. You have a greater guarantee that your money and data are safe. By […]

Recommended DNS servers – which ones are the fastest and best protect the user?

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ATTENTION! We have updated the DNS server test with new providers and threats. The current test date is September 10, 2023. Changes since the last test This year, the following servers have not been checked: DNS.Watch (although the servers themselves respond, their website returns error code 502 which could mean a possible abandonment of the […]

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