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McAfee Enhances Intrusion Prevention Technology
SecurityProNews
Staff Writer
2004-09-29
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New Firewall Features Provide Home Users with Ease of Use, Customization and Proactive Protection Against Worms, Vulnerabilities and Identity Theft.
McAfee released McAfee Personal Firewall Plus 2005, an easy-to-use and install defense that helps protect home users from unsolicited inbound and outbound PC traffic and unauthorized attempts to obtain personal information. The new version, now available on the Company's website, incorporates proven intrusion prevention technology, which helps to proactively block or contain malicious threats from reaching the consumer.
Proactive armor within McAfee Personal Firewall Plus includes both inbound and outbound threat blocking (not available in some free firewall offerings on the market), as well as intrusion detection capabilities. This detection technology proactively monitors the PC for unusual patterns of behavior to help protect home users against identity thieves and hackers. As new threats such as web dialers and worms continue to target home PCs, consumers need to be more aware than ever of the importance of a firewall.
"A personal firewall is absolutely critical in today's home computing environment," said Brent Lymer, senior director of product and partner management for McAfee Consumer. "Our goal with the latest release of McAfee Personal Firewall Plus was to make the product as simple to use as possible without compromising the full-feature set McAfee customers expect. We have a very high customer satisfaction rating for our firewall and we will continue to win consumer approval by offering one of the most robust and feature-rich firewalls on the market today."
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