Avast! is my preferred and recommended free antivirus. It does a great job while not consuming a whole lot of resources. Building upon the excellence that Avast! has been comes version 7 today. It brings with it a number of updates that improve the security and functionality an incredible amount for free security software. … [Read more...]
Adobe pushes Flash Player update to address zero-day flaw
Adobe posted a security bulletin this afternoon to announce a new version of Adobe Flash Player now available that addresses critical vulnerabilities. Users of version 11.1.102.55 or older are advised to update to the newest version, 11.1.102.62. You can check what version of Flash you have (per-browser) from http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ The software affected … [Read more...]
Avast! 7 available as beta, new version will bring streaming definition updates
Avast! 7 will use a hybrid of traditional antivirus definition updates and a new streaming system. This will allow AVAST to "push" out new updates as they are ready so all users will the most protected in minutes. The change will mean Avast receives about 20 updates daily and more frequent as the infrastructure can support it. Instead of getting bundled packages like now, users … [Read more...]
Sandboxed Adobe Flash Player available as beta for Firefox
Adobe announced good news for Firefox users yesterday through its Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET) blog. The post announces that Adobe has launched a public beta of a new Flash Player Protected Mode for Firefox. Much like the Protected Mode in Adobe Reader X, this will hopefully lead to fewer exploits able to impact a computer. Flash Player will establish a low … [Read more...]
For Data Privacy Day, Intel sponsors ‘lol…OMG!’ book about online reputation management, cyberbullying
Courtesy of Intel's sponsorship, the book lol...OMG!: What Every Student Needs To Know About Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship, and Cyberbullying is being given away for free in honor of Data Privacy Day this weekend. You can get the Kindle version of the book free January 27th through the 30th from Amazon. Even if you don't own a Kindle, you can "purchase" the … [Read more...]