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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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News

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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News

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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