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AOL discontinued it but offer a special edition of McAfee VirusScan Plus. AVS was using Kaspersky antivirus engine. Kaspersky Antivirus is the CNET Editor’s Choice Antivirus. The special edition of McAfee VirusScan Plus is an all-in-one security package with antivirus, firewall, and anti-spyware. It is free of charge but required a valid AOL username. You can register an account for free.
To all MSN Messenger or Live Messenger users, DO NOT accept “summer2008.zip” file from your friends! It is a worm virus!
ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware (cnet review) won the CNET Editors’ Choice Award among other antispyware softwares in the CNET Top 10 AntiSpyware Apps 2007. ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware is one of the best antispyware in their review but it is the least expensive paid software at only USD 20.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 won the CNET editors’ choice in the CNET 2007 antivirus performance test scores. “Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6 is light and fast and consistently wins detection awards against the competition”
I was shocked when I discovered a PayPal phishing site is hosting under Department of Islamic Development Malaysia(Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia) website.
While you don’t get fancy graphics for pirated Windows Vista, Microsoft decided to add something extra for pirated Windows XP users. Users from United States, Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Malaysia will get the priority first by April 26, 2006.
Just few days after the Windows Live announcement, Microsoft adds new online security scanner to Windows Live, called “Windows Live Safety Center”.
Microsoft Corp. plans to severely curtail the ways in which people running pirated copies of its dominant Windows operating system can receive software updates, including security fixes.
A British computer scientist has demonstrated that opportunities exist for fraudsters to launch phishing attacks using cross site scripting bugs on the very widely used Google sites. Using these conduits, fraudsters would be able to inject their own content onto the site in order to collect credit card details and other sensitive information. Jim Ley’s…
Developers at the open-source Mozilla Foundation have confirmed that the latest version of their Web browsers have a security flaw that could allows attackers to run existing programs on the Windows XP operating system. The flaw, known as the “shell” exploit, was publicized Wednesday on a security mailing list, along with a link to a…