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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 […]

Posted in: Security
News

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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Security

Avast Users face problems in running Unity games [Solution Inside]

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Avast free antivirus comes with Hardware-assisted virtualization setting enabled by default, which is the main reason why some games you’re trying to play are crashing. If you’ve Avast installed and not able to play Unity games on your computer, let […]

Posted in: Security, Troubleshooting
Security

AVG Browser Configuration Tool Removes AVG Secure Search, AVG Toolbar and Restores Browser default Settings

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

You did the damage, hence you’ve to repair it. AVG offers Tool to get rid of its Toolbar and Secure Search from Browsers, and restore default configuration of affected browsers. AVG offers Secure Search/Nation Search and Security Toolbar/Nation Toolbar, more […]

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Security

Avira Yet to fix ‘The report file could not be created!’ error

June 1, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

When you perform a quick scan (manually) for a drive or custom folder with Avira free Antivirus, after completing the scan it logs detailed scan report and displays it, which is not the case with scheduled Quick System Scan set […]

Posted in: Security, Troubleshooting
News

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

May 9, 2014 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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…]

Posted in: News, Security
News

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 […]

Posted in: Freeware, News, Security
News

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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News

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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News

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 […]

Posted in: How to, Security, Tips and Tricks
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