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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
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
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
Version 11 for McAfee Stinger has been released and available for download from McAfee website. Till now Stinger available as 32-bit version only, but the latest version 11 has added support for 64-bit systems too. And this standalone tool from
11.6 version of Adobe Flash Player and 3.6 version of AIR have been released and available for download from Adobe website. Flash Player 11.6 update resolves multiple vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution, this update is recommended security update.
Adobe has released Reader 11.0.2 for Windows and Mac which has fixed critical vulnerabilities found in previous versions (11.0.1) of Reader. You’re recommended to upgrade to this version immediately. If you’ve configured automatic updates for Reader you’ll notified or you
Second public beta of Avast 8 has been released and available for download. This beta has added Ad Blocker feature and brings much awaited Windows 8 support. This beta also brought bug fixes and improvements to features offered in Beta
Till now security vendor Avast has promoted Google products like Chrome and Google toolbar with its free antivirus, now another Google product added to list its Google Drive. Till now users complained about Avast installing Google Chrome, we’ve contradicted that
Beta version of Avast 8 has been released for public and officially available for download from Avast forums. We’ve reviewed Avast 8 beta last month, that’s closed beta, this one is public. As we’ve reported in the past this version
Avast 8 comes out of beta and first release candidate has been released. Till now three betas have been released and beta 3 has fixed Windows Security Center not recognizing issue and other bugs. Avast confirms this Release Candidate 1
Surprise!, Avast has integrated Adblock Plus functionality into Ad Blocker and offered it as optional feature with their version 8’s second beta, who’d have thought of this. Adblock Plus is popular ad blocking add-on available for Opera, Firefox and Chrome
Security vendor Bitdefender has released free Rootkit Remover tool which detects and removes known rootkits by using Bitdefender’s award winning malware removal technology. Unlike to other Rootkit Removal tools Bitdefender’s Rootkit Remover tool can be launched directly from Windows without