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Microsoft finally realised that Live One Care was a fiasco and decided to throw another free security application on the table, Microsoft Security Essentials. Basically what you get is, and let’s quote Microsoft on this “…you get high-quality protection against viruses and spyware, including Trojans, worms and other malicious software. And best of all, there are no costs or annoying [...]
Many developers are offering free security applications that can scan your computer for spyware or viruses free, but they won’t clean them until you pay for that program. Of course, there are applications that find a great number of false threats on your system, just to pull out those dollars from your pocket. Advanced System Protector didn’t fall in any [...]
Lavasoft, the makers of Ad-Aware, the top anti-spyware solution, decided it’s time to give birth to another baby, the Anti-Virus Helix. Lavasoft Anti-Virus Helix is the company’s first anti-virus solution and it’s aimed to become a hit, just like its big brother Ad-Aware. Anti-Virus Helix comes bundled with all the needed anti-virus components such as malware/pop-up blocker, a full scanner, [...]
In a previous article, we told you that Apple advised its users officially to install anti-virus software for their Macs. It seems that the official Apple statement started alot of buzz on the internet and today, Apple removed its ‘advice’ from the site, stating that people misunderstood it. Well, lets see how the advice sounded, shall we?
The BitDefender family has crossed the Windows platform and gained a new member within the Mac OS universe. SoftWin, the team behind BitDefender, released the Mac version of the popular security software solution.
The software package includes the popular BitDefender scanner, real-time protection and automatic updates. BitDefender 2009 wants to keep your computer away from spyware, malware and viruses, all in [...]
For managing the Mac OS X firmware password, you can use the Open Firmware Password application. This works with Mac OS X 10.1 and later. For further details regarding managing Mac OSX firmware protection, read Apple’s online documentation.
There are several easy steps to disable the mac’s firmware password:
Presenting Adeona, your free software driven laptop angel from The University of Washington. The great thing about Adeona is that it doesn’t rely on any centralized web service or any 3rd party. Shortly, this means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and…that’s it.
How does Adeona work?
Adeona is designed to use the Open Source OpenDHT distributed storage service to [...]
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