Day-by-day and year-by-year, as the computer users started getting protection from the common viruses, new problems started knocking at their PC's. One of the latest ideas of malware writers was that of 'scarewares'. These are malware programs that claim to anti-malware or anti-virus softwares. One can now-a-days see in many websites, the advertisements of thousands of 'anti-virus or anti-malware' tools which claim to be able to clean your PC off any kind of mess. Most of them might actually be the so-called scarewares, which tend to break down the immunity of the system and most of the time, the computer user end up in re-installing his OS, or something even worse.

Norton Internet Security Pubic 2011 Beta, which was just released claims to have added several tools, specially designed to protect against those kind of threats.

It provides a new facility to scan the links on your Facebook Wall and in your News Feed for links to malwares or sites hosting malwares. But the tool reportedly has some small bugs in regard of the final report of the scan.

NIS has also extended it's support to Chrome, Opera, AOL and Safari (it used to integrate only with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox). It now also supports many instant-messaging, peer-to-peer and e-mail applications.

This version of NIS is reportedly light-weight as compared to it's previous versions which used to use up the system resources and memory. No significant problems have yet been reported about the beta version.

But I don't think NIS will be able to get it's old hold back.

The Beta can be downloaded for free from: IDG.com Syndication - http://www.idg.com/