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Early in Q4 2009 Kaspersky, a valued partner of Web-Kong.com, released several amazing enhancements to its Small Business Security and AntiVirus product line. Kaspersky Labs has named these upgrades "R2" (or canonically "Release 2").

All product upgrades are free for small businesses with existing Kaspersky licenses, a long honored tradition by Kaspersky exemplifying their commitment to customers.

Kaspersky R2 enhancements include:

When the White House is doing security audits and is concerned about technology vulnerabilities, it's a good sign that every Small Business should be too.  While your Small Business may not be the honey pot the White House is, the fact you're an easier target puts the hacker's crosshairs on you.

In today's Kaspersky blog post on ThreatPost.com, by Donald Sears:

"October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Microsoft and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) have teamed up again this year to help increase awareness about Internet security issues and to educate users about how to help protect themselves and their devices.

"While we cannot guarantee complete safety in cyberspace, we can take steps to help prevent criminals and identity thieves from stealing our personal information and accessing our computers. We can also minimize our exposure to other Internet security risks."

Comcast broadband subscribers, will soon have a security enhancement being provided as a Hosted Service (or Software as a Service).  Currently in trial, this hosted service is intended to detect strange or malware-like network traffic coming from your computer.

Eugene Kasperksy, founder of Kaspersky Labs, a Security and Anti-Malware company continues to show his devotion to keeping the Internet a safer place.  Kaspersky security software provides Small Businesses a cost effective product based proven trust and technology.

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In a Press Release this week Kaspersky Labs announced major improvements to its product line of Security and AntiVirus solutions for Servers, Workstations, Email, Gateways, and Mobile Phones as well as their Administrion Kit for managing Kaspersky installations in a network environment.

Among the impressive enhancements in Kaspersky Open Space Security Release 2, Small Business owners and System/Network Administrators alike will find the following help them sleep better at night.

Mac/Apple enthusiasts have long touted their pride in running a more secure computing platform.  While the Microsoft vs. Apple debate often circles this theme the reality is viruses and their authors have little interest in this debate.  Human infecting viruses demonstrate this exemplified through the variations in the Flu strains each year.  The virus evolves to infect the most hosts (get why they're called Computer Viruses now?).

Antivirus and security updates on home or work computes have gained popular acceptance, but little thought is given to their mobile device counter parts.  For those with phones running versions of Windows Mobile the following tips are published on the Microsoft website.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/help/security/default.mspx

On their list: