There has been some confusion lately among AVG Anti Virus users. When they log on they get a message “STAY PROTECTED: Your AVG Anti-Virus Free 7.1 will be discontinued on 15. January 2007!”. The thoughts are that the AVG Anti Virus by GRISOFT will no longer be Free.
That’s not exactly true. Here’s what’s happening. GRISOFT [...]

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Just a week after Microsoft released IE7, Mozilla released Firefox 2.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – Oct. 24, 2006 – – Mozilla today released Firefox® 2, a major update to its popular and acclaimed free, open source Web browser. Firefox is developed by an international community of contributors working together under the umbrella of the Mozilla [...]

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Some 18 months after Bill Gates pledged to revamp Internet Explorer, Microsoft is ready with the final production version of IE 7. The new Web browser, which has been in testing for months, is now available for download from Microsoft’s Web site.
On the feature side, Microsoft is playing catch-up in many areas. It has added [...]

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Apple Computer warned on Tuesday that some of its latest iPods have shipped with a Windows virus.
The company said that a small number of video iPods made after Sept. 12 included the RavMonE virus. It said it has seen fewer than 25 reports of the problem, which it said does not affect other models of [...]

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It isn’t over yet, but 2006 is already a record year when it comes to security vulnerabilities.
There is, however, a silver lining: A smaller chunk of the flaws are high risk.
Last year, researchers at Internet Security Systems identified 5,195 vulnerabilities in software. On Monday, the count for this year stood at 5,450, according to the [...]

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Two Important Security Updates were released this week, one for Microsoft Windows computers and one for Apple Macintosh computers.
Microsoft issued a “critical” security fix for Windows on Tuesday, two weeks before its scheduled release date.
The company is breaking with its monthly patch cycle to fix a flaw that cybercrooks have been using to attack Windows [...]

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