Ofcourse we all know that AVG provides a full featured AntiVirus suite for free, but they also have a pro version where there is a broader scanning options and scheduling scans more than once a day, and many other features.
Computeractive is giving away free licensed copies, AVG 7.5 Professional is usually sold for $29.95, now you can get it for free until the 18th of January 2008.
But it seems that it is difficult to get the Computeractive download link to work, but CyberNet have provided 2 mirror links, one hosted on Rapidshare and the other on Megaupload, the program is supposed to automatically provide you the serial while the installation.
For residents of the UAE I recommend using the Megaupload link, Rapidshare just does not work well in the UAE.
[Via CyberNet]
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December 27th, 2007
Don’t even think of replacing your current Firfox with this, no, just give it time this is still Beta. I downloaded it yesterday and I didn’t want to quickly write any post just saying its out, i wanted to have a look at it first. Make sure its a real Beta. This is a real Beta release. Thank God.
Although you will hear praises all over the net of how great this version is, but still some things don’t change, yes you guessed it, MEMORY usage. Its still not fully dealt with, of-course I already told you before of an add-on for Firefox 3 that helps with this problem, but i was wishing that maybe the issue would be resolved directly by Mozilla. After using this beta for couple of hours Firefox ended up eating 825,636k of my memory (as shown in the pic below) . So the issue is still there. Am not saying that there was no improvements at all, of-course there are several enhancements. (Continue reading after the jump)
Firefox now uses the Gecko rendering engine, which makes things smoother, but not as smooth as we want yet!. In addition of security features that alerts you while visiting insecure websites and allows you to automatically virus scan your downloads with your Anti-Virus scanner (as shown in the pic below).
I am sure tho, the most beloved new feature by web surfers would be the “PLACES” feature, where it makes it easier to find websites you have visited recently or more often or even starred them for later browsing.
Download it and give it a try…
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November 21st, 2007
Nobody is talking about it, I never heard about anything like this until now. I am talking about the “Storm Worm”. We all know worms, Sasser is a famous example, but these worms we know are simple and easily noticeable, simply because they were fastly spread.
Apparently this worm appeared in January and is spreading steadily since then, this worm affects machines that run windows, which means around 90% of the machines used in the world. It first appeared hidden in email attachments with the subject “230 dead as storm batters Europe”. The infected machines became part of a BotNet, no one knows how big is this BotNet but professionals estimate that it might be between a million and 50 million computers worldwide by now.
Yes, it is pretty scary, because until now this person or organization is not using this BotNet heavily or for anything big, which means they are waiting for the right time, maybe the right price who knows?!
To get the full picture and read dull details , please read this article written by John Naughton in “The Observer”.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2195730,00.html
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October 22nd, 2007
