Kaspersky AntiVirus 6 won the Computer Shopper Best Buy Award for this June edition of Computer Shopper. Ease of use, good perform in detection, easy to update and reasonable price are the things that make Kaspersky 6 worth to get the award.

Kaspersky 6 which released this 15th May 2006, was tested against other leading antivirus programs for the first time in UK.

Once install, you can leave Kaspersky 6 do it works. A reviewer commented: “An updated, friendly interface gives access to lots of options; many suitable for advanced users. However, if you don’t want to get your hands dirty playing with advanced settings or exporting virus scan reports in CSV format, you don’t have to. Simply install the software, let it update itself, and it scans your system regularly. A single slider selects one of three security levels.”

The reviewer add: “Perfectly, as it turned out. It was one of only three products tested to detect every sample. Interestingly, the other two (F-Secure and Steganos AntiVirus) also use Kaspersky Anti-Virus technology.”

More Info: Kaspersky® Anti-Virus 6.0 wins first Best Buy Award from Computer Shopper

Cypher says: I currently using KAV 5. Will upgrade it when KAV 6 support local folder update.

Based on Kaspersky researchers report, they found a new virus that attack StarOffice. They named it “Stardust”. Stardust is the first virus that created to infect StarOffice and/or OpenOffice. Written in Star Basic, the macro virus download an image (adult content) from the Internet and open it as a new document.

Kaspersky said, they will add up more information about Stardust in their Virus Encyclopedia very soon.

More Info: Virus.StarOffice.Stardust.a

This is kind of old news. But attention to all Skype users. Download the latest Skype update for your Skype software because a flaw has been found by Australian security firm.

Security-Assessment.com has discovered with the install of Windows-based Skype client. The flaw is dangeorus because an attacker can retrieve files from other Skype users through unauthenticated connections due to a flaw in the URI(Uniform Resource Identifiers). Skype was notified about the flaw earlier this month (May) and promptly issued a patch. General vulnerability dissemination was made on 22 May by Security-Assessment.com.

More Info: Australian company uncovers Skype flaw