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Panda Cloud Antivirus 2.2: Parental Control, Data Shield and Rescue Boot Features

June 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Panda security company is keep adding new features to its Cloud antivirus, to the latest Panda Cloud Antivirus 2.2 has been released with new “Community labs area” which offers new features such as Data Shield, Parental Control, Rescue Boot. And

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Freeware

VLC 2.0.7 Update Improves Stability, Fixes Security Issues

June 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

VLC 2.0.7, though a small update for VLC 2.0 series, codenamed “TwoFlower”  but it comes with fixes to security issues and improvements for PowerPCs (Mac). VLC 2.0.6 update was offered in April. You can update VLC on Windows or Mac

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News

Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition Gets ‘Full System Scan’ button

June 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Instead of adding important features at once, Bitdefender is adding them one by one to its free Antivirus edition. Recently they’ve added Quarantine function, with latest update they’ve added ‘Full system Scan’ button to Bitdefender Antivirus Free edition notification area menu

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News

ESET Smart Security 7 Beta and ESET NOD32 Antivirus 7 Beta Now Available for Download

June 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

ESET security company has released Beta editions of ESET Smart Security 7 and ESET NOD32 Antivirus 7 for testing purposes and are available for download. These products offers new Advanced Memory Scanner, Vulnerability Shilled (ESET Smart Security only) and improved

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How to

How to Turn On Two-Step Verification for Your LinkedIn Account

June 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

After Dropbox, recently Twitter has offered two-step authentication for their users, LinkedIn now offering optional Two-step verification security feature for their users. Vincente  Silveria says in Linkedin blog ”All LinkedIn accounts are already protected by a series of automatic checks […]

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News

Adobe Reader XI 11.0.03 Security Update Now Available

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Adobe has released 11.0.03 version for Adobe Reader XI for Windows and Mac. This is a security update for Adobe Reader 11.0.02, every one using older version should upgrade to latest version using program built-in updater or can download and […]

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News

Avast 8.0.1489 Program Update Comes with BSOD Fix

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Newly released Program Update 8.0.1489 for Avast 8 has included BSOD fix in AswTdi.sys, Avast hasn’t detailed anything about this on forums. This version has also brought improvements for SecureLine VPN service which has been added with current 8.0.1488 update

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Security

Avast Online Security Plugin, What is it? and how to Remove it?

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

We’ve covered how to remove recently offered Paid SecureLine VPN for Avast 8 through the program update, this minor program update has rebranded WebRep and offered new extension including the WebRep in it for supported browsers called Avast Online Security […]

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News

Bitdefender Antivirus Free gets Quarantine Function

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

We’ve reviewed about Bitdefender Antivirus Free when it was released back in Dec 23, 2012, from then Bitdefender is working to improve it to compete with other free antiviruses in AV market like Avast, AVG and Avira. The latest program

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Internet Explorer

Microsoft Fix It for Security Advisory 2847140, Vulnerability in IE8 Now Available

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

After wide-spread news on vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8 that could allow remote code execution, few days back Microsoft has issued Security Advisory 2847140 to address it. IE6, IE7, Internet Explorer 9 and Internet Explorer 10 are not affected with

Posted in: Internet Explorer, News, Security
News

Kaspersky Application Advisor Shows Complete Information About Files or Programs

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Kaspersky has made Application Advisor service available in Beta which lets you know details about any file or program. Kaspersky Application Advisor service “provides current and full information about any software known to Kaspersky Lab”. We can’t this with VirusTotal

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News

Lavasoft to Release its Own Ad-Blocker (Beta), are you Ready?

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

What’s happening? security vendors into the Ad Blocking business?, we’ve written Avast has offered popular Adblock Plus as AD Blocker in version 8, now another security software making company Lavasoft gets into the act. This company has today announced in

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