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VLC 2.0.6 to Address Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in ASF Demuxer Plugin

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

VLC Player 2.0.5 and earlier versions are affected with a critical vulnerability, to address this Videolan is likely to release 2.0.6 version any time soon. If you’re using VLC media Player 2.0.5 and earlier versions you’re advised not to open

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Avast 8 Beta to Come with brand New UI, Software Health and Browser Cleanup Features

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Avast 8 beta to debut in coming months with redesigned user interface and new features-  Browser cleanup and Software health- provides controls to users in resetting popular browsers homepage and search provider to defaults and also alerts user to update

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“Quote Selected Text” Feature in Gmail moved back to Labs Again

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Back in December Gmail team has graduated three features from Labs, “Quote selected Text” was one of them, till yesterday this feature is available to all Gmail users by default but not the case as it has been sent back

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Web of Trust Browser add-on reaches 60 Million Downloads

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Web of Trust which is available as an add-on for Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer browsers shows safety ratings for websites and links in search results has passed 60 million downloads and last year by this time

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Avast introduces Bug Bounty program

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Security vendor Avast has introduced Bug bounty program to find issues in their product Avast free antivirus, Avast Pro antivirus and Avast Internet Security and report -who reports the bug in latest shipped versions gets reward starting from $200 to

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GMER 2.0 Adds Full 64-bit Support for Windows

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Version 2.0 for GMER, free rootkits detector and remover has been released and available for download from its website. GMER v 2.0 has added support for Windows 8 and 64-bit Windows. And other notable additions are Traces I/O function and

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Yahoo Mail Now Supports HTTPS, Enable It for your Account Right Now

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Yahoo mail, third-largest email service provider finally has got support for HTTPS, not enabled by default though. Google, Microsoft already offers full session HTTPS support by default for their Gmail and Hotmail services, now Yahoo joined them. Yahoo offers automatic

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Bitdefender Releases Red October Removal Tool

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Red October, highest cyber-espionage campaign going from over five years has gone unnoticed till security researchers at Kaspersky antivirus discovered this malware by then it already infected diplomatic, governmental and scientific research organization computer networks. Mean while security vendor Bitdefender

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Google Chrome

Google Chrome 26: Menu Gets bigger and background Color Changes to White

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Latest Google Chrome 26 dev. channel sports new UI style for Chrome menu with white background color and it has also grown bigger in size and context menu gets coat of white paint too. Get ready for two significant(?) UI

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Freeware

ZoneAlarm Free Firewall 2013 Update Adds Facebook Privacy Scan and Do Not Track Features

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

ZoneAlarm Free Firewall version 11 for 2013 which we’ve covered back in November 2012 got the first update in new year which has added two new features:Facebook Privacy scan and Do Not Track. This version has also added support for

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