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Avira AntiVir for Windows Home Server Postponed to Next Year

Avira support for Windows Home Server has been postponed until 2009.

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Preview: McAfee Total Protection Service

As perviously announced on We Got Served, the next update for the HP MediaSmart Server will include aa trial of an anti-virus product called McAfee Total Protection Service. A user help guide, already published on the web, helped us pull together a quick preview of the software.

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BitDefender Total Security 2009 Beta 2 Now Available

BitDefender have released Beta 2 of BitDefender Total Security 2009, which rovides internet security for a wide range of operating systems, including Windows Home Server. Find out what's new in this release.

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HP MediaSmart Server Update Arrives, With New Media Streaming, Anti-Virus Capabilities

HP have released their "April" update for the HP MediaSmart Server to the Web, which brings new, DLNA-complaint media streaming and anti-virus capabilities to the home server, along with a suite of bug-fixes for HP's own add-ins.

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F-Secure Home Server Security Beta Released

F-Secure have just announced the availability of a beta of their F-Secure Home Server Security product for Windows Home Server. So we now have another option to secure our WHS systems. This beta comes over 11 months after  F-Secure announced that it had been selected by Microsoft as the first data security vendor for Windows Home [...]

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Will We See OneCare for Windows Home Server?

Joe Wilcox revealedlast week that Microsoft are preparing a new version of Windows Live OneCare for Windows Server - the product will be bundled with Windows Small Business Server and Essential Server 2008, providing 12 months of free anti-virus protection for those systems. Given the relationship between SBS and WHS (and the closeness of the teams [...]

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HP Moves MediaSmart Server Update Back to April

We’ve just heard from HP that they will be moving their planned February update for the HP MediaSmart Server back a couple of months to early April due to the need for “additional testing”. The update, announced in early January, is set to bring a suite of new features to the MediaSmart Server, including enhanced media streaming from [...]

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Review: avast! Anti Virus Windows Home Server Edition

There seems to be an ongoing debate as to whether or not you actually need an anti-virus solution on your Windows Home Server or not. One school of thought says that if you are running up to date anti-virus software on all of your client machines then you don’t need it, the other says you [...]

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avast! Anti-Virus WHS Edition Released - 3 Licences Up for Grabs

avast!anti-virus WHS Edition has been in beta for the past few months, with many WGS readers testing the product and submitting feedback and bugs. Today, the product was released to manufacturing, and is now available to order and download directly from Avast’s website. avast! is the first dedicated anti-virus product to be released for Windows Home [...]

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Avast Anti-Virus for Windows Home Server - Beta Now Available

The world’s first anti-virus product for Windows Home Server is now in beta and available to download! avast! WHS Edition is a product designed specifically for antivirus protection of the upcoming Microsoft Windows Home Server platform. Besides providing the protection of the WHS machine, it also supports simple management of other avast! products on the home [...]

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