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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.

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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Security
Avast Free Antivirus

Official Direct Download Links for Avast Free Antivirus

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Avast Free Antivirus

Avast free antivirus is popular antivirus available for Windows and Mac platforms, this AV unlike to AVG uses fewer system resources. Avast not lacks behind in features either, Avast version 8 has been released with new features like Software Updater,

Posted in: Security, Windows
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Spybot 2.1 Adds Antivirus Protection for Home & Pro Versions

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Spybot or Spybot- Search & Destroy which till now offered protection against spyware now offers live protection against viruses too from v2.1 Spybot +AV 2.1 for home edition and above with inclusion of antivirus scan engine. Sadly AV protection isn’t

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Adobe Reader XI 11.0.03 Security Update Now Available

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 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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Security

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

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 2 Comments

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

Posted in: Internet Explorer, News, Security
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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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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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Avira Free Antivirus 2013 gets Windows 8 certification

Avira Free Antivirus Finally gets Windows 8 Certification

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Avira Free Antivirus 2013 gets Windows 8 certification

At last Avira free antivirus has got Windows 8 certification by Microsoft, so from onwards you don’t encounter any compatibility warning pop ups during its setup. That means Avira free antivirus 2013 product supposed to work without any issues in

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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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