EarthLink Upgrades Protection Control Center with Attack Shield

Continuing in its commitment to provide consumers with a safe Internet experience, EarthLink has added "zero-day protection" in the fight against spyware, Trojans, keyloggers and other threats with its upgraded Protection Control Center with Attack Shield.

Traditional antivirus solutions take a reactive approach to detecting and eliminating new viruses: they wait for an attack to infect a computer before arming consumers with updates that protect them from the latest threats. However, EarthLink's "Attack Shield" technology is proactive: by utilizing Sana Security's award-winning multi-behavioral security engine, the application is able to monitor in real-time the consumer's PC to detect potential behaviors to determine if an installed program is malicious and remove it without requiring definition updates.

Why Upgrade to the Protection Control Center with Attack Shield?
Online security has typically required an Internet user to manage each protection application individually on a desktop or laptop computer - a time consuming and frustrating process. According to EarthLink, it's Protection Control Center and Sana's anti-malware behavior technology will give consumers a single, easy-to-use consumer interface that simplifies the task of securing a computer against online threats and nuisances that can compromise personal identity and data.

In addition to the Attack Shield upgrade, the Protection Control Center 2.0 also includes the following enhancements:

• Improved active defense technology that detects more spyware and viruses before they can get onto a consumer's PC
• Better system performance
• Enhanced user interface
• Firewall lockdown that allows consumers to shut down all Internet traffic with one click if they think their computer is under attack
• Enhanced Firewall
• LAN Detection that allows consumers to set up trusted networks to which they connect to most

More on Viruses & Malware
According to the Anti-Spyware Coalition, a computer virus is code that recursively replicates a possibly evolved copy of itself. Viruses infect a host file or system area, or they simply modify a reference to such objects to take control and then multiply again to form new generations. Definitions for spyware, Trojans and other forms of malware can be found at http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/documents/glossary.htm. For more information on the Protection Control Center with Attack Shield or to sign up, visit http://www.earthlink.net/software/pcc/. For EarthLink's Podcast about the Protection Control Center with Attack Shield, please go to: http://www.earthlink.net/about/.