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Butterfly Botnet Kit Author Arrested Thanks To Panda Security and Defence...
If you’re a regular reader here, then you’re probably familiar with the outrage computer users express when commenting on cyber crime, and cyber criminals. Comments range from simple outrage, to...
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Update Your Applications With CNET TechTracker
Despite the reality, that critical vulnerabilities continue to be discovered in popular software applications, virtually on a daily basis, very few computer users monitor their system for insecure...
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Immunet Protect 2 – A Leader In Community Driven Cloud Based Antimalware
The bad guys collude to make “bad” even “badder”. That’s a pretty strange way to construct a sentence, I’ll admit, but here’s the message – cyber criminals are so organized, that they share...
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NEW – Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.3 Blocks Malicious And Suspicious Websites
Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.3, Panda Security’s newest release (October 27, 2010), of it’s popular cloud-based antimalware application, should be even more effective at keeping the bad guys at bay with...
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Planning On A New Christmas Computer? Security Precautions To Consider
We are now officially in the “Holiday Season”, so along with those visions of sugar plum fairies dancing in your head, you just might have visions of a super hot, quad core beast, that you can rip the...
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Go Elf Yourself! – Christmas Is Coming!
Again this year, as they have for the last five years or so, OfficeMax is offering the charmingly humorous ElfYourself, an online animated Christmas greeting creation tool. Working with ElfYourself is...
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Secunia PSI Updated – Version 2.0 Released
Secunia has just released (December 20, 2010), Version 2.0 of their award winning vulnerability and patch scanning free application – Secunia PSI. As important as it is, that you secure your computer...
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Use Free Prey To Track Your Lost Or Stolen Laptop Or Cell Phone
Recent statistics indicate that more than 10,000 Laptops are lost, or stolen, each week at U.S. airports alone. Broken down, this same set of statistics indicate that a Laptop is stolen, not lost but...
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Immunet 3.0 Released – Exciting Improvements
The latest version of Immunet Protect has just been released (February 9, 2010), and in the development process, this outstanding free companion Antivirus has undergone a name change to – Immunet 3.0 –...
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Running More Than One AV Is A Lurking Conflict
We get a lot of questions here on Tech Thoughts, and the following question (in one form or another), is a regular – “If I have one antimalware can I install and use another one as well?” If the...
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Take 10 Seconds And Have BitDefender QuickScan Add-on Audit Your System For...
BitDefender’s QuickScan (last updated April 7, 2011), is a Firefox, and Chrome add-on, built around cloud based technology (a continuously updated malware database and scanner, hosted on remote...
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NEW – Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.5 Released
Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.5, Panda Security’s newest release (June 20, 2011), of it’s popular cloud-based antimalware application, should be even more effective at keeping the bad guys at bay with it’s...
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Not Running Secunia PSI? Why Not?
Despite the fact that burglaries are at an all-time high in my neighborhood, and despite the fact that the Police regularly caution residents to lock both windows and doors when not at home, one of my...
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Not Using Google Shortcuts? Here’s What You’re Missing
The following article was originally posted September 6, 2010. Comments from readers: I have to say that is such a great plugin. It is so customizable and puts all the Google services at one place. I...
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Free FileHippo Update Checker – Excellent Alternative To Secunia PSI
I gotta love the regular readers here – they definitely keep me on my toes. Based on a recent article – Not Running Secunia PSI? Why Not? – a number of readers had the same question (both in comments...
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OPSWAT’s Metascan Online – A VirusTotal Alternative
I’m right and you’re wrong. No, I’m right and you’re wrong! You’re listening to a couple of sports fans arguing over who’s the best tennis player maybe? Could be – but, if you’re analyzing a downloaded...
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Aviary Application Suite – Free In Browser Creativity Tools
I’ll admit, I’ve never been a big fan of cloud based applications – too old, too staid, too set in my ways, and of course – my dissatisfaction with cloud security. Still, I’m slowly being converted to...
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ElfYourself – That’s right (Go ElfYourself)!
Again this year, as they have for the last 5/6 years or so, OfficeMax is offering the charmingly humorous ElfYourself, an online animated Christmas greeting creation tool. Working with ElfYourself is...
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Download Free Norton Identity Safe Beta – Simple, Secure, Password Management...
Fair or not, I look upon weak password control – which leads to a catastrophe – as a self-inflicted injury. According to Norton research – 45 % of us re-use the same, easy to remember password, across...
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Google Drive: One of the Best Things to Happen to the Web
I remember when I bought my first MacBook. I had been waiting two years to make the exciting switch to Apple, and once I did, I knew I’d never go back. I even remember the day I turned it on. …...
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