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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
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
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