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Adobe Shockwave Player bundled Flash is vulnerable, Uninstall it right now with the Tool Provided by Adobe

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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security

Beaware, Afterdawn.com installs Crapware through its Download Manager

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Avast 2014 R4 Beta now available

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

New beta for Avast is available for download and testing, final will be available by the end of June.  Avast 2014 R4 Beta with build number 9.0.2019 has added “resume” support for setup component for smoother downloading of Program update. […]

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Bitly Suspects Account credentials compromise, asks users to take immediate action

May 9, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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Adobe ends support for Reader Product on Windows XP, adds for Windows 8.1 Update’s

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Freeware

Advanced SystemCare Free 7.3 Introduces Security Reinforce feature for XP Users

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Avast Forum’s User data breached, now its offline

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Avira Cuts Partnership with Ask, Launches New SafeSearch Product on its own

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Avira to Launch ‘Avira Antivirus Pro’ which to Replace all its Paid Products

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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How to

How to disable or turn off Performance Alerts Shown by Norton Antivirus?

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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security

Where to download Malwarebytes Chameleon File?

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Can’t install or run Malwarebytes on an infected system, then Chameleon file will let you do that. We’ve already covered what is Malwarebytes Chameleon technology and how it helps to run MABM on a system that was affected with malware.  […]

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News

Kaspersky Releases Friend or Foe App for Facebook

May 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Security folks at Kaspersky lab has released a new smart social security app for Facebook, Friend or Foe in beta allows “users to assess just how “valuable” their friends are, and even shows what others think of them. The app […]

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