Spyware

LinkScanner technology incorporated into AVG’s latest free offering. AVG's Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 will be available for download from Friday 25 April, providing basic protection against viruses and spyware to consumers.

LinkScanner technology incorporated into AVG’s latest free offering. AVG's Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 will be available for download from Friday 25 April, providing basic protection against viruses and spyware to consumers.

Garth Stein's novel The Art of Racing in the Rain (Harper, $23.95) is the new Starbucks book selection. It will be available in more than 7,000 Starbucks (and other retailers) starting May 13. It's the first time the java giant will feature a work of fiction by a relatively unknown writer. A contemporary family drama involving a race-car driver, Stein's third novel is narrated by the driver's ...

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Here I’ll show you how to rid your PC of nefarious, spyware-infected programs, explain why you sometimes receive strange e-mail from your own address, and teach you how to stay safe on unsecured public wireless networks. Add the word remove to your search string, and avoid any link from the company that makes the program or any site that seems to have a positive opinion of it. You probably won’t be able to make heads or tails of it, but there are plenty of Internet forums where friendly people can help you decipher HiJackThis reports and recommend a course of action. I can’t tell you exactly how to reformat your hard drive and reinstall Windows, because that depends on whether you have a good backup of the operating system made before the infection, what kind of recovery capabilities came with your PC, and if you have a genuine Windows XP or Vista disc. However you do it, once Windows is working, you’ll need to install your security software and your applications, update everything, and then restore your data from the backup. More Spyware News

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Blade Network Technologies, a supplier of switches to IBM and HP for data center blade server racks, has unveiled two new 1U switches.

Performance-minded PC enthusiasts are always looking for anti-malware products that are A) free, and B) effective, while being light on system resources.  The latest version of AVG's free anti-virus software - AVG Free 8.0 - seems to connect solidly on both requirements, adding spyware detection and removal features and LinkScanner, an app that checks search engine result links for nasty code ...

UTM-1 Total Security® Appliances come with application and network-layer firewall, gateway anti-virus/spyware, intrusion prevention, and site-to-site and remote access VPN. Model 270 features 400 Mbps firewall throughput, 100 Mbps VPN throughput, 2 managed sites, and 4 ports, while Model 570 has 1.1 Gbps firewall throughput, 250 Mbps VPN throughput, 3 managed sites, and 4 ports. Model 3070 ...

AVG Technologies will release AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0 tomorrow, the latest version of its popular free security software. In addition to core protection against viruses, the latest release has been improved with integrated protection against spyware.