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Security coverage from Techdows: malware removal and antivirus guides, safe download practices, privacy settings, and news on threats that affect Windows users. Clear, practical steps to help keep your PC and accounts protected.

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Kaspersky Application Advisor

Kaspersky Application Advisor Shows Complete Information About Files or Programs

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Kaspersky Application Advisor

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 1 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

Posted in: Firefox, Security, Tips and Tricks
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Malwarebytes Anti Rootkit Beta

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

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Malwarebytes Anti Rootkit Beta

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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News

MaxCDN’s NetDNA Suffers Security Breach, Asks Users to Change Passwords

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

NetDNA, parent company of MAXCDN- provides content delivery services to websites – has been hacked. NetDNA has immediately taken needed security measures to block attackers and after that send emails to users about the hack. Upon initial investigation, NetDNA has

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News

F-secure Online Scanner gets More Powerful, Now it can remove Advanced Rootkits Also

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

F-Secure Online Scanner now has got even better as it has been tweaked for faster scans and advanced rootkits removal. Free online Virus scanner from security vendor F-secure has been completely rebuild and its size has been trimmed down to

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News

Download F-Secure Uninstallation/Removal Tool

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Can’t uninstall or remove F-Security Antivirus 2013 or F-Secure Internet Security 2013 and other F-Secure products? don’t worry! official Uninstall Tool from F-Secure is available with new interface with faster execution. Today F-Secure has released version 3.0 of F-Secure Uninstallation

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Firefox

Firefox 23 to block Mixed Active Content by default

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

To enhance the security for users on upcoming Firefox 23 version Mozilla has tuned  on a preference-security.mixed_content.block_active_content- as a result of this mixed content will be blocked by default. In the past, we’ve already covered that Mozilla has offered two

Posted in: Firefox, News, Security
News

Opera 12.15, Stability and Security Update Released

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Opera 12.15 final version with Presto engine has been released and available for download. Perhaps you may have to wait little longer for the release Opera powered by Blink, fork of Webkit which Chromium is working on. Opera 12.15 could

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News

Public Beta for Avast Program Update 8.0.1486 Now Available

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Avast has made third public beta for their upcoming program update 8.0.1486 available for download for testing and feedback. This beta brings screen readers support, ability to turn off Software updater and with other improvements. What’s new in Avast 8.0.1486

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News

VirusTotal Adds Kaspersky URL Scanner As New Scan Engine

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

VirusTotal, popular online file and URL scanning service for malware which has been recently acquired by Google has added Kaspersky URL Scanning engine to its antivirus scan engines list. As a result URLs scanned in VirusTotal.com now being checked against

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How to

How to Test Anti-keylogger Protection Software?

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Is your Anti-keylogger software specially developed to encrypt keystrokes and prevent them from being reaching hands of hackers through legit/malicious keyloggers is really working or not? if you’ve any doubts you can find that out with legit, safe and free

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