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Avira AntiVir Personal 8

Avira's AntiVir Personal 8 comes highly rated by independent third-party antivirus experts, so we were eager to compare it with other antivirus products. While we can't complain about its high level of protection, there were several nitpicks about the application itself that set us back. For one thing, you pay...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, AntiVir, AntiVir Personal 8

Product reviews 2008-12-02

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MIDs and netbooks - half the size, half the experience - Solomon type design

Personally - not really interested in smaller than a netbook."With AJAX, and HTML 5 coming, the Internet experience will require ever more power."Somehow I doubt that that will really take more power than video.But if it doesn't do video - yeah, it's underpowered.Frankly, though, I really don't want to go...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Solomon Corp., netbook, video, HTML 5

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Avira AntiVir Personal 8

Avira AntiVir Personal 8VIPRE New UserI purchased both the VIPRE pkg and the firewall.Before any one spends a nickel on this product do a Google search on SBAMSVC.exe. In the first two days, my PC has been locked up with 100% CP seven times. Also, there is an...

Tags: VIPRE, Avira AntiVir Personal 8, Full System Scan

Discussion threads 2009-01-03

Microsoft give students the finger, once again

Microsoft give students the finger, once againHere`s my takeI have a theory that explains why MS did that.1. Windows Vista and the currently circulating build of Windows 7 have Windows Defender as a bundled application. It is a pure antispyware product. If you look at the current client security applications,...

Tags: Operating systems, Viruses and worms, Live OneCare, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Windows Defender, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2008-11-19

Windows Live Messenger 9 (What's new in Windows Live Messenger 9 )

Windows Live Messenger 9 (What's new in Windows Live Messenger 9 )Whats the deal with OneCare?You mention that one should install the OneCare antivirus, but let me tell you this, you can very well make WLM use any antivirus scanner to scan recieved files. For e.g. you can use...

Tags: Operating systems, WLM, Windows Live Messenger 9, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-09-01

Giving Windows Vista another chance ...

Giving Windows Vista another chance ...tips? yeahWell first of all i don't suggest using ie for safe browsing, firefox or opera can be much better.Be sure to install an appropriate anti-virus and anti-spyware before anything, for me avira antivir personal and spybot search and destroy worked great.If you do have...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

#10: NoScript for Firefox (Ten free security utilities you should already be using)

#10: NoScript for Firefox Ten free security utilities you should already be usingSo why was NoScript the last one mentioned?The first entry should have been Firefox to replace Internet Exploder and the second should have been NoScript. Anything that requires you to sign up and allows a third party server...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, UNIX, security, America Online Inc., Mozilla Firefox, NoScript

Discussion threads 2007-07-25