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CCleaner has the ability to enable, delete or disable startup programs (including of browsers) in Windows, some Avast users on 64-bit Windows 7 getting ‘access denied’ errors whey trying to do those things even though they’re logged in and running […]
Cryptolocker, recently became very popular and tough to get rid of kind of ransomware from your computer if you’re infected with. This ransom malware once enters system encrypts all files and provides the key to decrypt them only when you […]
Few Avast users reported WinPatrol program has alerted them about Emergency Update entry addition in startup that supposed to run every time after reboot, they’re concerned about it. We’ve covered this in the past, Avast uses Emergency Update feature to […]
Avast Free Antivirus 2014 final has been released, it is lighter, faster and meaner. Avast has released 2014 line of products Avast Free Antivirus 2014, Avast Antivirus 2014 and Avast Internet Security 2014 and Avast Premier Antivirus 2014. Avast has […]
Avira has officially released its 2014 line of products -Avira Free Antivirus 2014, Avira Antivirus Suite 2014 and Avira Internet Security 2014. Though there are new features offered for free AV, good news for users is Avira’s free AV this […]
With Automatic Updates, Safe Browsing and sandboxing, Google Chrome browser is already more secured. But these are not enough, where nowadays malicious programs somehow gets installed on users systems and hijacking browser settings- FYI Chrome already prevents third-party programs from […]
Malwarebytes has announced launch of its USB stick named Malwarebytes Techbench for a price of $399.95/year as an introductory offer. Price seems pretty expensive, but this portable anti-malware USB drive aimed at technicians after plugging into an infected computer will […]
Avira to offer their future products without toolbars. Avira has announced new Browser Safety feature, which to replace SearchFree Toolbar, offered by them in their products and at the same time it will offer the same features existed in traditional […]
Security company Avira seems going in right way these days, recently they’ve announced Browser Safety feature which to be offered in place of Avira SearchFree Toolbar, that’s one happy news for Avira Free AV users, here is another one- Avira […]
AVG has released its 2014 line of Products: AVG Internet Security 2014, AVG Antivirus 2014 and AVG Antivirus Free 2014. At the time of writing this article, AVG website isn’t ready with their new products, instead AVG 2014 has been […]
McAfee Labs has released 12 version for their Stinger tool and is available for download. Initial version for Stinger 11 was released back in March this year, McAfee Labs Stinger 12 released now detects more newer viruses, you can find […]
Norton 2014 products, Norton Internet Security 21 and Norton Antivirus 21 have been released. As Beta testing is over, Symantec has released their 2014 line of products- Norton Internet Security 21, Norton Antivirus 21- with version number as 21. These […]