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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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Freeware

RKill does more than killing Malicious Processes

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

RKill, portable tool developed by BleepingComputer.com site to terminate malicious processes on infected systems helps users to scan their systems for infections using antivirus software and further they can able to remove threats if any found. We’ve reviewed this tool

Posted in: Freeware, security
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VLC 2.0.6 to Address Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in ASF Demuxer Plugin

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

VLC Player 2.0.5 and earlier versions are affected with a critical vulnerability, to address this Videolan is likely to release 2.0.6 version any time soon. If you’re using VLC media Player 2.0.5 and earlier versions you’re advised not to open

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Web of Trust Browser add-on reaches 60 Million Downloads

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Web of Trust which is available as an add-on for Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer browsers shows safety ratings for websites and links in search results has passed 60 million downloads and last year by this time

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Avast 8 Beta to Come with brand New UI, Software Health and Browser Cleanup Features

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Avast 8 beta to debut in coming months with redesigned user interface and new features-  Browser cleanup and Software health- provides controls to users in resetting popular browsers homepage and search provider to defaults and also alerts user to update

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Freeware

ZoneAlarm Free Firewall 2013 Update Adds Facebook Privacy Scan and Do Not Track Features

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

ZoneAlarm Free Firewall version 11 for 2013 which we’ve covered back in November 2012 got the first update in new year which has added two new features:Facebook Privacy scan and Do Not Track. This version has also added support for

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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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