Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Conficker is a dangerous worm that allows attackers to remotely control your computer. The latest Windows security updates keep Conficker away, but if your computer was already infected before performing Windows update process, you will not be able to access Microsoft or security websites to remove the worm. Besides these symptoms, your computer will also work slow, having a higher number of running processes at startup than it normally should. In order to completely remove Conficker worm from Windows, we have successfully tested a simple method that uses free antivirus software and does not require you to reinstall or update Windows. (more…)
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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
In 2008, CheckPoint Software Technologies Ltd. has offered an unlimited number of free 1 year licenses for its award winning software Zone Alarm Pro suite. Now, those of you who missed this opportunity, still have a chance to free download the commercial version of ZoneAlarm Pro Firewall 2010, with a free license key on Tuesday, October 13, 2009, because on that day, only for 24 hours, CheckPoint will freely give away this software with a legitimate license. (more…)
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
As any other applications, the software platforms which power the mobile devices like iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile are vulnerable to viruses. By using a fuzzing based test method, the security experts Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner have injected SMS messages locally in an iPhone, without the need of a mobile operator network and have demonstrated how a virus can be enabled on an iPhone device in the absence of phone user participation, just by receiving a SMS. (more…)
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
The Report Spam button situated at the top of your Gmail inbox, definitely helped many users, as well as the entire Gmail spam filtering system to eliminate a considerable part of undesired email messages and also to block spammers in the same time. Now, Google has introduced an additional feature which works in correlation with the Report Spam button. Based on this new Gmail feature, you will be able to automatically unsubscribe from mailing lists or newsletters. (more…)
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
You may know, that the majority of the Internet connected computers are equipped with Adobe Flash Player. Due to the recently discovered critical security vulnerabilities of Flash Player (9.0.159.0 and 10.0.22.87) for Windows, Mac and Linux, as well as of authplay.dll component included in the Adobe Reader and Acrobat software, you are strongly advised to disable the support for Flash files rendering in web browsers and other software capable to manage Flash applications. Practically, the security vulnerability affects Flash in essence, and due to the fact that there are already served tons of Flash files in ads, games and various software applications, your computer could be one of the millions potential targets for attackers. (more…)
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
One year ago, in the article “A New Powerful Virus Could Affect Millions of WordPress Blogs“, there was underlined the necessity of performing updates of WordPress sites, especially when critical security issues are fixed in the current software release. The latest version (2.8.2) of the popular blogging platform WordPress was just launched and is ready for free download. WordPress 2.8.2 patches an XSS security vulnerability: due to the fact that the author’s comment URLs were not fully sanitized in version 2.8.1, an attacker could used this security leak in order to redirect you from the administration area to another website.
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
AVG Anti Virus provides you a reliable protection in real time against all possible forms of viruses, spyware, adware, worms and trojans, as well as hidden threats (rootkits), identity-theft and malicious websites. It has a low footprint on system resources, therefore you will be able to perform the usual tasks in an optimal manner. There are situations when you need to remove the AVG Anti Virus software, but the automatic uninstaller is not capable to clean up all files and registry entries corresponding to the application.
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
If you frequently experience network access problems, as well as connection speed related issues, then your computer could be connected to the Internet through a rogue DHCP server. This type of network device could also represent a source of network attacks, because it is capable to sniff your traffic and control user privacy. Rogue DHCP servers can be spotted with the help of intrusion detection software, like the new free portable application (RogueChecker) provided by Microsoft Windows DHCP Team.
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
According to the Software Freedom Law Center, the WordPress themes, being derivative works of WordPress should be licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License, except CSS and image files (art work). Software Freedom Law Center was performed a comprehensive analysis regarding the interaction between the PHP code, which is GPL and the WordPress template elements “called” through PHP routines and the conclusion is a little bit confusing at first sight:
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
Qcodo development framework is an environment for truly object oriented PHP coding. This framework is based on PHP 5 and remove the need for tedious hours of work by reducing them to minutes. Therefore prototypes will be rolled out in minutes, while the developers gain more time to refine the application functionality, usability, performance and security. Qcodo framework is capable to support complex projects and in the same time it will amaze you through its lightweight file size and structure.
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Last week a leaked version of the Microsoft new antivirus product code named Morro (Microsoft Security Essentials) was published on various Internet sites. Now, Microsoft officially launched a beta version of Microsoft Security Essentials, the free anti-malware application, which is the successor of Windows Live OneCare security service. The beta program offers Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus software just for the first 75000 users who will download it. The download limit could be extended, depending on the general public demand.
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
Instant messaging is a common practice for many of us. Beside the advantages of the free instant messaging services, which delivers the web based tools and clients to connect with friends and family, there will always exist certain privacy related issues, therefore you could not specify who is watching your private conversations at a given time. In order to keep curious eyes away from users conversations, BitDefender provides a free encryption tool for your messages: BitDefender Chat Encryption. This software has the role to protect instant messages from hijacking through an encryption process performed automatically.
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
After you have built a website, the next step is to show it to the world. Any successful website usually has a high traffic, reflected in a high number of unique visitors daily. In order to begin the creation of your website success, because just publishing it to the web is not enough, you should try to apply in practice the main principles of Search Engine Marketing (SEM). SEM offers basic strategies to attract more visitors to a website and in the same time to ensure a better website exposure over the Internet.
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