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Email Malware Increases Dramatically, Prepare for More from Epsilon Breach

Email Malware Increases Dramatically, Prepare for More from Epsilon Breach

| April 4, 2011 | 1 Comment

Malware and virus distribution over email is on the rise, with a major spike in malicious attachments claiming to be from Facebook or UPS, at one point accounting for nearly 30% of all email sent. The news comes by way of CommTouch, an Internet Security website, and is especially troubling when you consider the recent data breaches at Epsilon that has [...]

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Avast Free Antivirus 6.0 Launches with Sandboxing, Web Reputation and More

Avast Free Antivirus 6.0 Launches with Sandboxing, Web Reputation and More

| February 23, 2011 | 2 Comments

If you are on a Windows notebook and need an excellent free antivirus solution, check out Avast Free Antivirus 6.0 which just launched with a collection of new features to make the web a safer place. Avast Free Antivirus 6.0 is, as the name suggests, free for users to download and install. Avast offers an [...]

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Download Up to Date Antivirus and AntiMalware Apps with SSDownloader

Download Up to Date Antivirus and AntiMalware Apps with SSDownloader

| July 8, 2010 | 1 Comment

If you are regularly called on to clean up computers that have become infested with viruses and malware you no doubt have a USB stick filled with tools to remove viruses, spyware and other nasty malware but keeping the programs and virus definitions up to date is a pain. With SSDownloader though, you can instantly download the [...]

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Software Security: Filtering Out the Noise and Finding a Deal

Software Security: Filtering Out the Noise and Finding a Deal

| December 14, 2009 | 1 Comment

Security software is a multi-billion dollar industry and is growing rapidly. There are hundreds of commercial security solutions being sold at retail stores. Many notebooks come pre-installed with some form of protection from the dangers of the Internet. Every day, news outlets publish stories about worms or viruses being spread online and rendering computers inoperable. [...]

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