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Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus 7.1 Professional Single Edition

Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus 7.1 Professional Single Edition is a dependable and unobtrusive virus slayer that's a real bargain when compared with market giants McAfee VirusScan 2006 and Norton AntiVirus 2006. For true penny-pinchers, Grisoft offers AVG 7.1 Free Edition, which is a good, if limited, product. And Grisoft's two-year...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Grisoft, AVG, AVG Anti-Virus, AVG Anti-Virus 7.1

Product reviews 2006-04-06

Additional Resources

Five unanswered questions after Microsoft's Q3 earnings call

Five unanswered questions after Microsoft's Q3 earnings callReally?The EC doesn't have Microsoft hating judges. It has Microsoft being found in violation of the EC rules/regulations repeatedly. Ergo, the judges have to bring the hammer down.Or would you rather that they didn't do anything when companies did "bad things?" Or is...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., earnings call

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

Who gains from Microsoft's free Morro antivirus?

Who gains from Microsoft's free Morro antivirus?The worst detection rates by a mile ...... when I last saw a comparison of AV products.What they can do, being Microsoft, is start charging for a package that protects the AV software. No need to fix the original problem, nor problems in the...

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

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

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

Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it so

Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it soPar for the course wrt anti-Vista bashers.They believe that repeating something ad nauseum will somehow make it true.Journalism or Rant?I'm afraid you've followed suit rather than taking the high road on this issue. By even responding to...

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

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

2nd-generation Intel Classmates reviewed

I just love these little laptops, so here's another repost while I've "gone fishin'". Intel recently sent me two examples of their second-generation Classmate PC for testing. The Classmates include numerous improvements on their already well-thought-out first-gen machines and mark the first versions that we can...

Tags: Intel Corp., Intel Classmates, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Memory, Mesh Networking, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programs

Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programsNYT ReaderI had the NYT Reader installed when I ran the SP1 package. I also kept all my peripherals (7 USB devices) connected during the upgrade and it went surprisingly without errors and finished in 19 minutes. NYT Reader and all my other apps...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), NVidia Corp., Dxdiag, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, SP1, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-02-21

PC makers walk fine line with 'crapware'

PC makers walk fine line with 'crapware'Hours of fun uninstallingI've spent hours uninstalling pointless junk from Dell machines because friends want to keep the OEM Windows install. How can Dell keep a straight face shipping out brand new laptops which are appallingly slow because of all the crap that's thrust...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, PC, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, disk, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-04-18

Proof that Antivirus software makes your PC crawl

A few months ago I declared: "Its time to toss out your desktop antivirus software!" As far as I was concerned, running desktop antivirus software was a liability in and of itself because "Running antivirus on a personal computer is like having the bomb squad inspect a suspicious package...

Tags: antivirus software, software

Blog posts 2006-09-25

Apple's own version of the WGA fiasco

Apple's own version of the WGA fiascoWe have like 20 other entries at ZDNetC'mon, don't be ridiculous. I'm the only person on ZDNet pointing this out on Apple and we have like 20 other articles and blogs smashing Microsoft for their stupidity in the WGA fiasco. Do you...

Tags: Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Corp., WGA fiasco, fiasco

Discussion threads 2006-07-07

BBC stories used as bait for IE exploit

BBC stories used as bait for IE exploitNOW would be a good time...for Microsoft to release a patch. The malicious hackers are using social-engineering tactics here. They're getting smart. Unless Microsoft releases an out-of-cycle patch, there will most likely be successful attacks between now and April 11.If anyone doubts that,...

Tags: Web browsers, Patches, WTF, British Broadcasting Corp., hacker, IE Flaws, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-03-30