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Download Comodo Internet Security Pro 2011 for free

Comodo Internet Security Pro 2011 costing USD 50 a year is now offered free for first year license. The Security suite includes a VB100 certified Comodo AV engine along with award wining firewall and other protection features. Download one year free subscription -> http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-security/internet-security-pro.php The Software supports Windows XP / VIsta and 7 under both [...]

Two years into Microsoft Security Essential

Its been almost two years since Microsoft Security Essential first made its appearance into Microsoft Connect website for internal beta testing. First it was in my Virtual installations and then slowly it started to become primary AVS in my Netbook, laptop and with release of MSE 2.0 in my primary desktop as well. No matter [...]

List of few alternative task manager program to default Windows Task Manager

“Ctrl + Alt + Del”. One of the most famous shortcut command of Windows to bring up the Task Manager to monitor and troubleshot any resource hungry or unresponsive program. However Windows Task manager is not the only program or tool available for Microsoft Windows to perform the said action. Let’s take a quick look [...]

Download Free Antivirus software (Microsoft Security Essential) from Microsoft

In todays world, where more and more of our application and computing is dependent on Internet, it becomes absolutely necessary for an user to have an active Anti Virus software installed for his/her Windows operating system. There are many Paid and free solutions available and sometime it may become bit confusing to find the right solution [...]

How to manually download Microsoft Security Essentials (Anti-Virus) offline update

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free but every effective antivirus / malware software offered by Microsoft to all Windows customers. Microsoft Security Essentials supports Windows XP / Windows Vista and Windows 7 in both 64bit (x64) and 32bit (x86) platform. The software is capable enough to update it self from Internet if having live internet [...]

Quick look at (user review) Kaspersky Internet Security 2011

Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS 11.0) 2011 is out. Let us have a quick look at the product and its feature and performance and lets do a quick comparison with other available options. What is Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 ? Kaspersky Labs are a well know market player in terms of security suites. Kaspersky came to [...]

Virus writers often end up sending their codes to Microsoft

At a Microsoft Tech.Ed 2010 conference session, Microsoft security team said that often many hackers and virus writers end up clicking “Send” button after crashing their test systems with their malicious code and ending up sending their malicious codes to Microsoft even before they can release it at in form of a malware. One of [...]

How to create better / stronger and super passwords ??

Most of our financial and personal data is now getting online. Only thing that secures the data from a thief is a simple thing called “password”. Over the years with ever rising hardware power, this simple thing aint simple anymore. Hackers are now days cracking simple passwords with ease, so the question a common web [...]

Orkut phishing attack – Free mobile recharge scam..

It has been a common problem for orkut users to find their account getting hacked. Most of us blame Google (orkut) for the reason, thinking that they have lower level of security. However the truth is, passwords are never leaked from Google’s end, its us, the user caused actions leads to a password leakage. One [...]

Kaspersky Internet Security / AntiVirus 2009 (v8.0) / 2010 (v9.0) blocks google ads by calling it a Phishing Attack

It seems, some one at Kaspersky doesn’t like Google and doesn’t want its users to view the ads. For last few hours, Kaspersky Internet Security / AntiVirus  2009 (8.0) / 2010 (9.0) seems to be blocking any website which contains with Google Ads via Google Adsense. The problem effects all users having uptodate database and [...]

Download Kaspersky AntiVirus / Internet Security (v9.0) 2010 Offline update (ZIP)

Kaspersky Lab have released a stand alone utility tool to download and store Kaspersky Internet / AntiVirus  9.0 updates (virus definition /database / program module ) in a portable storage drive to update any computer which doesn’t have a live Internet connection. Although the tool is small, simple and very easy to use but in [...]

How to update Kaspersky AntiVirus / Internet Security (v 9.0) 2010 without Internet connection (offline)

Kaspersky has been one of the industry leader in terms of PC protection software. Around the globe, there are thousands of users, who are using Kaspersky Internet Security or AntiVirus. An AntiVirus or PC security software can’t be the best unless it receives frequent updates to keep it self healthy and prepare enough to tackle [...]

Paypal down ?? / Error 500 (Internal Server error) on log-in process

It seems Paypal World wide is having an issue with its login process. When ever I try to login to paypal, it is returning an error 500, meaning, something went wrong at their end under the server which handles user login request. Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was [...]

Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 (version 9.0.459) has been relased

Kaspersky LABs have just released their new product line up. The 2010 (v9.0.459) version of Kaspersky Internet Security and Kaspersky AntiVirus. This time around, there is a separate version for low end hardware based NetBook or ultra portables which is called Kaspersky Internet Security for Ultra portables. One may download a free 30 days trial [...]

IE8 has the highest malware blocking rate

NSS Labs, in their browser security study, have found Internet Explorer 8 to have the highest blocking rate in web based malware delivery and infection. Microsoft Internet Explorer v8 (RC1) achieved 69% block rate Mozilla Firefox v3.07 achieved just over 30% block rate Apple Safari v3 achieved 24% block rate Google Chrome 1.0.154 achieved 16% [...]

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