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Malwarebytes 3.2 Beta available with Memory Improvements and Bug fixes

July 30, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

A new beta version of Malwarebytes 3.2 is available for testing. This beta improves memory usage (this has been mostly discussed topic after the … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Security
News
Avast dashboard shields are off resolve or ignore message

Latest Avast 2017 removes Status Monitoring

June 27, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Avast dashboard shields are off resolve or ignore message

Status monitoring which was available in Avast and accessible through Settings –which allows to disable individual shields — has been removed in Avast 17.5.2302. … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Security
Google Chrome

PSA: Redirected to chrome-updates.win phishing site? Remove VPN Extensions

June 26, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Whenever you open a New tab page in Chrome if you’ve been redirected to https://chrome-updates.win/s.html page, without further thinking uninstall or remove the VPN extensions … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News, Security
News
Malwarebytes 3.1 free automatic monthly scheduled scan

Malwarebytes 3.1 Free version adds Automatic Monthly Scheduled Scan

May 15, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Malwarebytes 3.1 free automatic monthly scheduled scan

Malwarebytes 3 version available till now has only allowed Malwarebytes Premium and trial users to automate scans schedule by clicking ‘schedule scan’ tab in … [Read more…]

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Freeware
Enable KeyScrambler anti keystroke profiling

KeyScrambler now protects against Keystroke Profiling

April 25, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Enable KeyScrambler anti keystroke profiling

The anti-keylogging software, KeyScrambler, has received an update recently, KeyScrambler 3.11 has been released. The update has not only added support for Windows 10 Creators … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News, Security
News
Malwarebytes Free 3.0.6

Malwarebytes 3.0.6 final fixes memory leaks and reduces CPU Usage

January 26, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Malwarebytes Free 3.0.6

Top issues reported by users regarding Malwarebytes 3.0.5 (previously known as Malwarebytes Anti-Malware) have been addressed as the company has released Malwarebytes 3.0.6 after … [Read more…]

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News
Avast Free antivirus behavior shield

Latest Avast beta gets behavior shield

January 21, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Avast Free antivirus behavior shield

Avast has already released AVG Free Antivirus 2017, but it is still beta testing the antivirus product. To the latest, Avast has released a … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Security
Freeware
AVG Antivirus Free 2017

Avast releases AVG Free Antivirus 2017

January 11, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
AVG Antivirus Free 2017

Avast has acquired AVG few months back, today the company released 2017 editions of  AVG Antivirus Free, AVG Internet Security and AVG TuneUp. As … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News, Security
News
AVG antivirus beta from Avast

New AVG beta based on Avast engine is here

December 11, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
AVG antivirus beta from Avast

Two months back. Avast has acquired AVG, today they’ve released new AVG antivirus product in beta version by incorporating their engine and some technologies present … [Read more…]

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Firefox

Firefox 50.0.2 to Patch JavaScript Exploit found in Tor browser

November 30, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Zero-day vulnerability has found in the Firefox browser, a JavaScript exploit — which consists of one CSS and one HTML file — has been discovered … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News, Security
News
Malwarebytes 3.0

Malwarebytes 3.0 beta launched

November 15, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Malwarebytes 3.0

Today, Malwarebytes Corporation has released a beta of their next generation product, Malwarebytes 3.0, a combination of Anti-Malware, Anti-Exploit, Anti-Ransomware, Website Protection and Remediation technologies. … [Read more…]

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Security
Site not fully secure lock icon

Vivaldi: Content from unauthenticated sources has been blocked

November 7, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Site not fully secure lock icon

Vivaldi browser now allows to load insecure content at the users request. Like to Chrome’s ‘This page is trying to load scripts from unauthenticated … [Read more…]

Posted in: Security, Vivaldi
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