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Panda USB Vaccine

Dr. Safemode — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:01:26 +0000

You once brought your thumb drive and inserted into your friend’s computer but unknowingly a virus hops onto your thumb drive just so that later it also infects your home computer. Panda Security’s is providing a free solution to this problem through its Panda USB Vaccine that blocks autorun malwares from infecting a thumb drive [...]

Panda Cloud Antivirus Beta

Dr. Safemode — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:59:20 +0000

Just a short introductory to Panda Security’s latest security software, the Panda Cloud Antivirus, now available for free in BETA version. The Panda Cloud Antivirus is said to be based on a newly designed protection model that utilizes PandaLab’s Collective Intelligence server that is constantly and automatically updated by Panda Antivirus users whenever there is [...]

ESET Smart Security 4 Beta Preview

Dr. Safemode — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:09:28 +0000

ESET Smart Security 4 Public Beta 1 was released last November 2008. The ESET Smart Security is a security suite combining top-notch anti-virus, firewall and anti-spam modules. Well, on first impression, we like what they did with the user interface - simple, informative and yet responsive. As usual, there is no problem at the installation part. [...]

Downadup worm, 1.9mil PCs, worldwide infection!

Dr. Safemode — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:28:51 +0000

It wasn’t such a big issue last December but Downadup has taken over about 1.9 million unpatch Windows-based computers to date as reported on F-Secure Blog. Downadup or some vendors might call it Conficker or Kido exploits the PC through the MS08-067 vulnerability. As we write, the number of infected PCs is increasing drastically because of [...]

F-Secure Anti-virus 2009 Preview

Dr. Safemode — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:47:55 +0000

F-Secure launched three security products line-up on 3rd September 09 - F-Secure Anti-virus 2009, F-Secure Internet Security 2009 and F-Secure Home Server Security 2009. The three mentioned computer security products are promoted under the ONLINE WELLBEING campaign and it boldly claims to be the fastest protection in the online world. Dr. Safemode is proud once [...]

Kaspersky opens regional office in Malaysia

Dr. Safemode — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:33:24 +0000

Kaspersky Lab, a leading anti-virus vendor, announces the official opening of its regional office in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Gun Suk Ling is appointed as the Managing Director of the South East Asia office whom he was the previous Director of Channel of Kaspersky Lab South East Asia. In-housed within the Petaling Jaya office is a new [...]

Update Windows with AutoPatcher

Dr. Safemode — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:28:41 +0000

Find it a hassle to redownload all the latest Windows security patches each and every time you format your hard drives? AutoPatcher is a portable solution - it allows you to download monthly downloads from Microsoft website using their program and hence have it in an installable fashion (download first, install anytime) Autopatcher for Windows XP [...]

Firefox 3.0.3 update!

Dr. Safemode — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:10:55 +0000

Time to update to the latest Firefox 3.0.3! Click on the Check for Update menu (Help > Check for Updates..) or get the installation file at http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html. Bug fixed: Fixed a problem where users were unable to retrieve saved passwords or save new passwords [...]

Norton AntiVirus 2009

Dr. Safemode — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:38:42 +0000

Norton is trying to win the hearts from the geeks community with its newly launched Norton 2009 products - super light on resources and lighting fast to be installed. Over the pass few years, in our opinion, Norton failed to attract wave of computer users to use Norton like it did many many years ago. [...]

VIPRE Antivirus offers unlimited home licenses

Dr. Safemode — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:54:39 +0000

VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware was just released a week ago and they have came up with a great bargain for all home users. How would like to have all your home PCs protected with Sunbelt’s latest VIPRE Antivirus for only $49.95? VIPRE Antivirus is said to provide high performance security software that doesn’t slow down your [...]

Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware 1.22 released

Dr. Safemode — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:54:22 +0000

At just 1.7mb, Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware combats 944 of the most widely spread malwares on the internet. Just yesterday, they released Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware version 1.22. Malwarebytes’ product are widely used on computer support forums like BleepingComputer.com to help users rid of virus infection. For starters, this product is FREE for use as an on-demand scanner. However you [...]

Firefox 3.0.1 New Updates

Dr. Safemode — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:13:30 +0000

Firefox 3.0.1 is now available as an update and full version here. To get the update, just hover your mouse cursor on the Help menu of Firefox and click on “Check for Updates”. The list of issues fixed in Firefox 3.0.1 is available in the Release Notes section. The Firefox updates includes 3 critical fixes to [...]

TGV Malaysia website hacked with SQL injection

Dr. Safemode — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:55:53 +0000

Just when you thought you’ve seen the end of hacked cinema’s website (refering to Malaysia’s GSC website), another one surfaces at TGV.com.my just about 3 months later. According to SANS Internet Storm center, this type of SQL injection uses SQL commands to attack the “sysobject” and “syscolumn” in the database and particularly a website that [...]

Malware Search Trend on Google

Dr. Safemode — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:13:45 +0000

Google offers one of the best search engine results on the planet! Here’s something interesting, one of Google’s Lab product is Google Trends. It allows anyone to take a look at what are the most popular searched terms. You can also start by typing in terms and Google will beautifully display it in a graph [...]

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 Preview

Dr. Safemode — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:15:43 +0000

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 was released earlier this month but there is no word of such release on their press center. However, a big promotional banner showing boxes of the new releases with a football field as a backdrop indicating that Kaspersky is trying to ride along the EURO 2008 football [...]