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It’s interesting how one AV product suppress the other in just a matter of months. Look at the graphs produced by those so called independent testers. A sample here. Its a big war of AV companies out there. My problem is, it’s sickening to know … “My views on free VS. premiere security products.. and Microsoft’s Antivirus?”
Read MoreApple corporation released Safari 3.0 beta 3 and works on Windows as well. I downloaded and tested B3 after Frank sent an email of this release. Just cruising the web i found already 10s of vulnerabilities in this browser by far. This was further confirmed … “Safari for Windows Beta 3 – Vulnerabilities found in found in mere minutes”
Read MoreGraph source, http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=135 A recent study by ZDnet reveals Vista has way lesser vulnerabilities and high fixes rate as compared to other OSes like RHEL, MacOS. Vista, is what i would imagine, a begining to what will be of the security enabled operating systems, come … “Security Showdown”
Read MoreISA Server is the ONLY FIREWALL THAT I KNOW today that supports authentication for almost all WINSOCK compliant protocols if you use Windows Operating System. 2. ISA Server stores frequently used caches in memory 3. ISA Server contain out of the box a bunch of … “Top 5 reasons why i would like to implement ISA Server 2006 as my outgoing proxy/firewall”
Read MoreKaspersky recently detected a potential program/virus dubbed Podloso that could be used and infect a linux based iPod’s executables with the extension .elf. Right now, i guess there’s no “real” virus *yet* that could spread automatically and do bad stuff to your cute-lil-ipod. The best … “iPod virus?”
Read MoreIf you patched your system with the ANI patch from Microsoft, it may break certain drivers such as the Networking & Audio ones from Realtek. If you have this particular problem checkout this article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935448 (I guess if your network adapter is down, chances are … “ANI has been patched, but bugs are known and workarounds are available”
Read MoreGoogle Analytics is a cool free Site Tracking tool from, oh, you guessed it, Google. I use it for my blog sites (this) and other sites that i help manage. The best thing of it is that its free. You would need of course a … “Google Analytics”
Read MoreRSA, famous for its authentication and encryption techniques recently announced a service to protect users from trojans. Called RSAFraudaction, is a service, an end-to-end solution that covers the identification, analysis, blocking, and shutdown of attacks. RSA will get my vote in their offerings. They have … “RSA into AntiTrojan”
Read MoreI came across and installed this tool from mozdev.com that protects Firefox (1.5 or higher) against common browser based attacks on malicious sites. You can create your own rules and block off anomalies if you know how to script the rules out. The product is … “Firekeeper – An IPS for Firefox”
Read MoreWhen browsing the internet, your browser does a lot to make websites and pages look pretty to you. There’s frames, pictures, html, java etc. loaded everywhere in these seemingly simple pages. But, there’s more interesting information and source codes being loaded in the process of … “Debug Internet Explorer”
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