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Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit (MAE) has spent more than a year time in beta phase, now it is out of beta and stable version is available for download, in free, premium and business versions. MAE unlike to antivirus, doesn’t depend on signatures […]
Started your computer and noticed unsecapp.exe process running on Task Manager which you’ve not seen before, its not accidental that after installing Avast this process runs, spotted and reported by many users in various forums recently. In fact, its Avast […]
If you’ve installed Avast in your computer, you might have noticed instup.exe running in the Task Manager under the Processes tab, this process with the description Avast Antivirus installer runs from the location C:Program FilesAVAST SoftwareAvastSetup. You can notice it […]
Flash runtime that came bundled with Adobe Shockwave Player for Windows and Mac has not received security updates since last 15 months, and it is vulnerable and can be hacked through Shockwave if installed in your computer. Adobe isn’t doing […]
Stumbled onto the Afterdawn.com download site from Search engines, don’t download software from it?. There are so many software download sites on the web, in them, few are trusted like Majorgeeks and Softpedia, if you’ve chosen to download a file […]
Do you own a bit.ly account, act quick and reset password and follow other instructions mentioned by link shortening service on its blog as … [Read more…]
Though Quarterly security update of Adobe Reader has targeted at fixing critical vulnerabilities and offering improvements, significant news is Adobe Reader 11.0.07 version no longer works in Windows XP (and Office 2003 as well), welcoming news is support for Windows […]
IObit has released Advanced SystemCare with brand a new security feature intended for XP users. IObit’s system Optimizing software continues to support Windows XP permanently and they’ve added new feature Security Reinforce to the new version, that ‘reinforces the security […]
If you’re a user in the Avast community forum, make sure to change the same password if used on other websites because it has been hacked. Usernames, email addresses and passwords (even though hashed) were compromised. Avast forum is now […]
Remember Avira SearchFree Toolbar which was powered by Ask?, After receiving bad feedback on it from users Avira has decided to release their 2014 products without that toolbar, in that process, they broke the partnership with Ask and working on […]
Avira is getting things right recently, they’ve removed the Notified ad and integrated Protection cloud into Free antivirus and they’re going to release future products without searchfree toolbar, instead protection for browsers will be offered through a plugin called Avira […]
Don’t want to be annoyed by Performance Alerts shown by Norton Antivirus?, you can easily deactivate them. Remember AVG advisor notifications? -For instance, all of a sudden a notification pops up saying Firefox is using more memory, AVG recommends to […]