Erik Larkin - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Erik Larkin

Article | 20/12/2009 Don't Lose Everything When You Lose a Laptop

The FireFound add-on for the Firefox browser adds tracking and remote wipe features that can help with lost or stolen computers.

Article | 9/12/2009 Alwil Avast! 4.8 Professional Edition

Though Alwil Avast Professional Edition ($63.97 for a one-year, single-PC licence) has a speedy scan rate, that wasn't enough to offset its unimpressi...

Article | 9/12/2009 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4

ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 has some nice, techie-focused extras and it effectively ferrets out rootkits, but it can't keep up with other antivirus apps wh...

Article | 3/12/2009 Trend Micro Antivirus + Antispyware 2010

Trend Micro Antivirus + Antispyware 2010 is good looking software weighed down by comparatively poor malware detection, slow scan speed, and a serious...

Article | 2/12/2009 Panda Antivirus Pro 2010

Panda Antivirus Pro 2010 ($69.95 for a one-year, three-PC licence) offers strong traditional malware detection, but is dragged down by negatives like ...

Article | 1/12/2009 BitDefender Antivirus 2010

BitDefender Antivirus ($44.92 for a one-year, three-PC licence) holds its own at dealing with malware, but its interface isn't especially user-friendl...

Article | 1/12/2009 Avira AntiVir Premium

Avira's AntiVir Premium Edition lacks an advanced malware detection feature used by top programs, and it could use a smoother interface. The program e...

Article | 25/11/2009 Kaspersky Lab Anti-Virus 2010

Kaspersky's pairs competent proactive protection with below-average signature detection, and a strong feature set with an at-times annoying user exper...

Article | 25/11/2009 G Data AntiVirus 2010

Most security programs use a single antivirus engine, but the German-made G Data (US$25 for a one-year, single-PC license) uses two separate engines: ...

Article | 25/11/2009 Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2010

Symantec's Norton AntiVirus ($60 for a one-year, single-PC license) offers some terrific extra features and a polished user interface. But subpar perf...

Article | 24/11/2009 Keep your passwords private with LastPass

This fall, more than 20,000 stolen usernames and passwords for such Webmail providers as AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo appeared on Pastebin.com, a pr...

Article | 13/11/2009 Web site security holes make case for protection

Two-thirds of the sites that tend to care most about security still have serious unfixed vulnerabilities, according to an analysis from web security f...

Article | 10/11/2009 iPhone worm rickrolls jailbroken phones

A mischievous iPhone worm that targets Australian jailbroken phones is changing the phone's wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley.

Article | 4/11/2009 Fix old flaws to stop new attacks

In further confirmation that Internet crooks tend to grab for the low-hanging fruit, a new Microsoft report reveals that the most common browser-based...

Article | 29/10/2009 Blaze

Blaze (free) helps you more quickly start programs, and a whole lot more. When this techie tool recognizes that you're doing something with a repetiti...