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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 category and it’s actually capable of scanning your system AND cleaning the found threats for free. You might also think that a free security application it’s very weak compared with its paid counterparts, again, you might be pleasantly suprised.
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I think we all had problems uninstalling troublesome security products such as anti-viruses or anti-spyware applications. The main reason behind this is that many security programs leave alot of traces behind such as registry entires or files, that interfere with the well-being of the system or better yet, create even more problems when we need to install other security applications or newser versions. Unfortunately, this problem isn’t quite so 90′s, it seems many of the top security solutions are ‘rooting’ themselves in our systems.
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, a web and email protection module and of course, a malware remover. Continued »
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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?
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We, the Mac users always wanted to have a good, strong, handsome Mac virus that can tear up our systems and make Windows users think they have flies instead of viruses onto their PC’s. Unfortunately, Mac OS isn’t a good environment to sustain our fetishes and the big bad Mac viruses need to work harder than that. Now, putting the joke aside, there weren’t any real virus threats within the Mac community, but some sources, claim that the new Mac virus will hack and crack and whatnot.
This question popped in our heads many times in the past and for some, it’s still an enigma. So, I will try to clarify what is svchost.exe, what’s used for and why in some occasions it eats your CPU.
What is svchost.exe?
According to Microsoft, “svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries” or, in plain English, svchost.exe is a system program that is needed by Windows to launch other programs that cannot be run without being hosted (thus the generic host process).
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