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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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Firefox

Enable Mixed Content Blocker in Firefox 21 for More Security

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

We’ve already covered that Firefox 23 to block Mixed active Content by default. Let me give you a little brief about mixed content.  On HTTPS page when some content is loaded via HTTP connection there are chances for hackers to

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Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit Latest Beta Removes ZAccess Rootkit from Windows PCs

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Anti-Rootkit from Malwarebytes in Beta got a lot better now- its now able to detect and remove most dangerous ZAcess variant from Windows. Malwarebytes blog notes “This new build removes the (ZAcess) rootkit and automatically starts the repair process to […]

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