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Security news roundup for the week: December 9

Here's a collection of recent security vulnerabilities and alerts, which covers two security updates released by Novell, updates for avast! antivirus, Skype and Camino 1.5.4 for the Mac OS X, a DoS vulnerability in the Cisco 7940 SIP phone, vulnerability issues with Windows Media Player, a latest legal threat made...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Media Player, Novell Inc., Avast!, Antivirus, Vulnerability, Skype Technologies S.A., Secunia, Media Player 6.4, Security, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-12-09

Anti-Virus Software

Anti-Virus SoftwareHere's something we all have in common.The virus.What programs do others use,and why?I use to use Norton,untill it was taken over by Symantic,got hacked so many times on the web,that it was'nt worth installing,plus,trying to uninstall the damn thing took forever,and usually wrecked my original configeration.McAfee,Anti Vir,AVG,the list is...

Tags: anti-virus, Anti-Virus Software, antivirus, avast!, Neil Higgins, security, software, spyware, Symantec Corp., virus

Discussion threads 2005-09-01

Additional Resources

working with regedit

hii there,i had uninstalled the avast trial antivirus in my computer.when i boot my computer there is this message that says there was an error while installing avast.i dot have a registry cleaner software atthe moment but i understand i can use regedit to delete some of the hidden avast...

Tags: cownay@...

Discussion threads 2007-03-14

working with regedit

hii there,i had uninstalled the avast trial antivirus in my computer.when i boot my computer there is this message that says there was an error while installing avast.i dot have a registry cleaner software atthe moment but i understand i can use regedit to delete some of the hidden avast...

Tags: cownay@...

Discussion threads 2007-03-14

Avast.....Awsome

Some months ago ya'll sent me a link to Avast home security. I use it on my home computer and unlike any others that I have used it has proctected and is proctecting me the best ever!!! I have not recieved any virus it has not caught since I downloaded...

Tags: Avast

Discussion threads 2005-05-28

cpu working 100% always

in my computer celeron 2.13 g the cpu is seen working 100% always. main porcess is cmd.exe . this takes up about 80% of cpu time. system idle process is never activated. i am working in windows xp professional. avast on acces scanner ( 7 providers )is always running...

Tags: Cyberthreats, mkmathai@..., CPU, cmd.exe, Avast

Discussion threads 2007-10-14

Zonealarm 7 / Avast Antivrus

Hello All,I have recently upgraded to zonealarm 7 from using 6.5 i read that the av feature of zonealarm 7 doesn't work and could lead to a security hole in software.I have installed avast antivirus which i only have running the standard scanner, the web scanner and network scanner.I figured...

Tags: Scanners, Viruses and worms, hickshudson@..., scanner, ZoneAlarm

Discussion threads 2007-04-10

Avast Professional Edition (exe)

Avast 4 Professional Edition is a complete ICSA & Checkmark certified antivirus software for corporate and advanced home use. Avast Professional Edition includes an on demand scanner with two user interfaces, a skinnable simple interface: just select what you want to scan and in which way and press the play...

Tags: User Interface, ALWIL Software, Virus, Avast 4 Professional Edition, Avast Professional Edition, Scanners, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-01-10

Avast Antivirus Home Edition

Prior to trying the Avast 4.6 Home Edition, the author was very much a Norton user. He knew there were a lot of free antivirus software out there but he wanted to be on the safe side and use something tried and true. However, with the increase of spyware and...

Tags: Antivirus, Viruses And Worms, Cyberthreats, Security, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware

White papers

Avast Software

I use an anti virus software called AvastI am having problems with AVast, it appears to be constantly scanning email.Any ideas how to remedy thisit appears to be scanning email when no email is being transmitted?that is usually caused by a peer to peer client using a similiar packet format....

Tags: e-mail, Avast

Q&A 2006-06-09

Avast Virus Cleaner Tool (exe)

Avast Virus Cleaner is a free tool that completely removes selected viruses and worms from your computer. It stops viruses that are active in memory, disinfects your files, removes virus registry and start-up items, and even deletes the virus-working files. Version 1.0.209 can handle virus families: Badtrans--Beagle aka Bagle, (A-Z,...

Tags: Tool, Virus, Avast Virus Cleaner, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2006-11-12

HELP ME IDENTIFY THIS VIRUS PLS

2 days ago i installed a Windows 2k advance server, i was just too busy then that i forgot to install evrything(anti-virus, patch,etc,,) the next i logged in to my server I cant access my TCIP properties and my add/remove programs int he control panel,,WHAT HAS GONE WRONG??? ANYONE PLS!!Not...

Tags: anthony_v_campos@..., networking, virus, windows administration

Discussion threads 2005-12-20

Login Win XP Home Edition

Hi,I have a laptop which got a win xp home edition installed on it. After I installed "Vista AntiVirus software" I am unable to login. It boot until the login screen,when you click login nothing happen. Please assist.EmileI don't quite understand.Who makes the Antivirus software you are talking about? ...

Tags: emilea@..., software, antivirus software, Avast 4 Home Edition, windos xp home edition login problem, windows, Avast

Discussion threads 2006-12-19

Antivirus Downloads

Dear Sir/MadamI'm Bafana Radebe a young IT Technician in a newly established Business consulting Company.I want to download an effective antivirus for windows XP (which is free. Can you recommend any antivirus that I must use considering that we also have the internet. your assistance in this regard will be...

Tags: antivirus, bafana.rad@..., software, windows

Q&A 2006-07-07

Is AVAST PRO v. 4.7 The Best ?

For the Capabilities & Low Resource footprint?(besides port sniffers like 'Black Ice Defender'.- Terry Mathis

Tags: dv8Cowboy

Discussion threads 2007-01-28

Avast, ye scalawags, for Talk Like a Pirate Day draws nigh!

I need more practice...All I can think of is arghhh matey and shiver me timbers...which seems lame and cliche compared to the article you posted...Haven't read up enough on pirates i guess...Wonder how long it took you to come up with all this...Would have taken me days to come up...

Tags: Piracy, links@..., Avast, Thar

Discussion threads 2007-09-13

AV and Firewall driving me crazy

I have tried several internet security products on both myhard drives and they are revving the hard drive and making everything very slow. I use to have mcafee with no problems. The new one I got started making this problem. I tried zonealarm, AVG and now TrendMicro....

Tags: Firewalls, Network security, SECURITY, koipoi1057@..., firewall

Discussion threads 2007-03-31

Annoying and painful issue

Okay every hour or so my computer will decide to lockup or just restart its self. Then when its restarting or i restart it. The windows boot screen just sits there loading forever not doing nothing and if I leave it long enough sometimes a brief blue screen appears which...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Instant messaging, Viruses and worms, bud30002002@..., software, window

Discussion threads 2007-05-07

Hard disk going crazy

I have a SATA 160 HD. many times it starts spinning at very high speeds. it happens whether i am connected to net or notwhy this happening,once i restart the pc it stopswhat is wrong.i use Avast antivirus, Lavasoft Antispywareboth updated aut

Tags: software, stpmds@..., hard drive

Discussion threads 2006-12-16

outlook express help

i just bought a dell inspiron laptop and with avast anti virus, and windows xp. but when i attempt to send a message on outlook express it puts up an error message even though i can receve messeges

Tags: zpf@...

Discussion threads 2007-07-30