As you may have noticed, there have been many changes around here in terms of the new K7 website and even some new products in the shape of K7SecureWeb.

All this activity and a few internal changes have meant that this blog has been a bit underused in recent weeks. The good news is that we’re now re-launching the blog, and while I’ll be the main writer here; keeping you updated with the goings on here at K7, and on Security issues in general; we will also be having contributions from other team members. This will include contributions from our Virus Lab experts, our development and technical teams and our cloud computing division.

Just to introduce myself, I’m the Chief Technology Officer here at K7 – and you can see a bit more about me here http://corp.k7computing.com/About-Us/K7-Management-Team.php. I can also be found blogging over at http://avien.net/blog and I’ll be speaking at various events including Virus Bulletin 2010 in Vancouver, Virus Bulletin’s new Seminar series in London, and the AVAR conference in Bali.

I hope to be posting regular and interesting content here, and would love to hear your feedback, which you can leave on the comments section. I’ll try to answer all genuine comments as I can, but please be aware that I won’t be answering any support questions here, so please direct those to our wonderful support staff, who will be only too happy to help out.

Andrew Lee
CTO K7 Computing

Virus Bulletin claimed that its latest round of spam tests suggested that antivirus software developers could provide better protection for computer users if they were to work together to create antivirus software that adequately protects users from the threats of spam.

The firm claimed that by combining the anti-spam filters of five or more of the products during its latest test, a “hypothetical” spam filter could be created with a 99.89% catch rate with “virtually” no false-positive identifications.

Antivirus software vendors often collaborate when developing antivirus software updates in order to protect users from new and emerging threats but there is currently no such co-operation in the anti-spam market. It’s believed that these findings by VB could lead to more collaboration in the future.

“For end-users this means that if spam filtering is business-critical, the use of more than one spam filter may be a good option,” said anti-spam test director Martijn Grooten.

“The anti-spam industry, meanwhile, should consider the benefits of collaboration and information sharing, and might be better able to protect our inboxes as a result.”

K7 Total Security has been awarded the VB100 award by Virus Bulletin, meaning that it passes their stringent, industry recognised antivirus software tests.