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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mozilla now blocklisting malicious add-ons aggressively, till now you may’ve heard news about Firefox developer blocklisting Java, Silverlight and other plugins because of vulnerabilities, now they’ve added some Codec add-ons available with different names such as Codec, Codec-C and Codec-M
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