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Panda Cloud Antivirus 2.1.1 Maintenance Release earns Windows 8 Compatible Certification

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Versions 2.1.1 for Panda Cloud Antivirus has been released which has been guaranteed with Windows 8 compatible logo from Microsoft. This version improves anti-exploit protection that was added in version 2.1 back in December and also enhances heuristic technologies that Panda

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Avast introduces Bug Bounty program

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Security vendor Avast has introduced Bug bounty program to find issues in their product Avast free antivirus, Avast Pro antivirus and Avast Internet Security and report -who reports the bug in latest shipped versions gets reward starting from $200 to

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Bitdefender Releases Red October Removal Tool

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Red October, highest cyber-espionage campaign going from over five years has gone unnoticed till security researchers at Kaspersky antivirus discovered this malware by then it already infected diplomatic, governmental and scientific research organization computer networks. Mean while security vendor Bitdefender

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Firefox

Mozilla to enable Click to Play for All Plugins to give More Control to Firefox Users

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Mozilla has decided to give more control to the user by forcing click to play plugins enabled by default even for all versions of all plugins (those including the current ones) except for current version of Flash. Till now Mozilla

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Beware! ComboFix Infected with Sality Virus, don’t Use it for Now

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

The ComboFix tool from BleepingComputer.com which supposed to remove viruses and other threats has been badly infected with Sality virus. Bleeping Computer acknowledged this and asking affected users who used their tool recently to scan with virus scanner and lists

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ESET Smart Security 6 and NOD32 Antivirus 6 Released

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

ESET has released version 6 for their Antivirus and Smart Security products with Social Media Scanner included with other new features, both are available for download from their website -where ESET NOD32 Antivirus v6 includes optional anti-theft and ESET Smart

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Firefox

Firefox 19 to Alert Users for Awesomebar Search Provider Changes

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Mozilla started protecting the hidden preference “keyword.URL” of Firefox browser which generally is targeted by third-party programs to change awesome bar search provider with theirs with/without user consent, not any more! as upcoming Firefox version warns if a program or

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Internet Explorer

Fix It for IE6-8 Zero-Day Vulnerability Now Available

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Microsoft Fix It tool now available for Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 users which has recently affected with Zero-day vulnerability. If you’ve not heard the security news recently zero-day bug has been discovered in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and

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Foxit Reader 5.4.5 Fixes Vulnerability in its Browser Plugin

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Foxit Software has released security update for their Foxit Reader 5.4.4 which has fixed vulnerability in its web browser plugin that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on users Computer. After security researchers found the vulnerability in dll

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Freeware

GMER 2.0 Adds Full 64-bit Support for Windows

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Version 2.0 for GMER, free rootkits detector and remover has been released and available for download from its website. GMER v 2.0 has added support for Windows 8 and 64-bit Windows. And other notable additions are Traces I/O function and

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Google Chrome

Google makes SSL Search default in Chrome

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Google is enhancing the security for Search in Chrome by sending the searches from address bar over SSL for not-signed in users where till yesterday this encryption being offered to signed-in users only, now Google has turned on SSL protection

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Ditch Java for your Sake, Another Zero-day Vulnerability Found in Java

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Java is not safe to use right now, you’ve been warned to immediately disable Java or even better uninstall it from your Computer as new zero-day vulnerability has been discovered which being exploited in the wild. Two hackers who maintain

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