In a discussion with tech.blorge.com, David Hall, who is Symantec’s Product Manager for Asia-Pacific Consumer Products and Solutions, voices his concerns over the popularity of free antivirus programs.
“People tell me, ‘oh well look I use free antivirus because it is free and it protects me from everything in those areas,’ but when you compare that [...]
If there’s one type of software news that always brightens my day, it’s news that a purveyor of crapware has lost a legal game of Rochambault. This time, it was Kaspersky snatching victory away from perennial nuisance Zango.
Zango has a history of rising from the grave like some horrible software zombie. Their other incarnations include [...]
I wrote about OperaTOR a while back as a portable option for simple TOR-enabled browsing on the go.
Maybe you’d prefer a single EXE that packages Firefox, TOR, Privoxy, and Vidalia? You’re in luck - Paul O’Brien has combined those ingredients into a tasty privacy-enhancing stew.
He’s created the package using Xenocode (and yes, it’s a licensed [...]
Word on the street has it that Microsoft is preparing to launch a free anti-virus application for Windows. That’s not breaking news - we first reported the project back in November 2008, but Reuters is now reporting that a beta version of the software should be available for download “soon.”
Microsoft has reportedly been testing the [...]
Intego, a “leading internet security and privacy software” publisher dropped a press release on my inbox this morning that might as well have read, “Hey, Apple.. Gotcha!”
Beyond recognizing the malware threat to Macs, Apple goes further, admitting that the techniques it includes in Mac OS X aren’t enough to fully protect Macs from viruses and [...]
Facebook has taken steps in the past to promote sharing identities across different social networks, with its own Facebook Connect and its membership on the OpenID board, and it just took one more big leap by allowing Facebook logins via OpenID. If you have an OpenID from a provider like Google, you can now login [...]
Facebook has taken steps in the past to promote sharing identities across different social networks, with its own Facebook Connect and its membership on the OpenID board, and it just took one more big leap by allowing Facebook logins via OpenID. If you have an OpenID from a provider like Google, you can now login [...]
Recently, a critical Javascript vulnerability was discovered in Adobe Reader which affected several versions on all platforms. It was the second major exploit this year targeting the application.
Adobe has responded quickly, putting together updates for Windows, Mac, and Linux in less than two weeks. While an immediate “Patch Tuesday” fix a la Microsoft would have [...]
It hasn’t been the best couple of weeks for Adobe Reader.
First there was the advice from F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen to stop using Reader and switch to an alternative. Now there’s word of a new security flaw that is known to affect versions 8.14 and 9.1 for Linux and could also affect other versions of the [...]
Carbonite isn’t a web based storage service per se. It doesn’t let you watch uploaded videos or look at pictures like other services such as Box.net. But as an online backup service, Carbonite can store a lot of your data online in case your hard drive crashes or you lose your computer and you need [...]
