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Firefox 3.01 New Updates

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

Firefox 3.01 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 3.01 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 [...]

New Gpcode variant encrypts at 1024-bits key

Dr. Safemode — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:18:32 +0000

According to Kaspersky Lab (June 5, 2008), the new Virus.Win32.Gpcode.ak variant is said to take your personal files hostage by encrypting them with a 1024-bit key, a huge upgrade from the previous Gpcode variant which was using a 660-bit key. You will be able to identify if you’re infected with Gpcode when you notice your personal [...]

Bitdefender GameSafe Anti-virus for gamers!

Dr. Safemode — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:33:25 +0000

How would you like an anti-virus software which is specially made for gamers? Bitdefender GameSafe was launched last month to specifically target the gaming community. One of the very troublesome matter faced by gamers are pop-up appearing during a game causing a full-screen game window to minimize. Pop-ups ranging from virus update definitions, firewall permission/blocked alert [...]

How to remove Vundo trojan?

Dr. Safemode — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:06:36 +0000

The vundo trojan is one of the most caught PC infection on many online scanners. According to Symantec, Trojan.Vundo is an adware program that downloads and then pop-up advertisement. You can be easily infected by visiting a Vundo resided website through a link in a spam mail. Once caught with Vundo, you will frequently see pop-up [...]

CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2008 Preview

Dr. Safemode — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:52:18 +0000

Computer Associates(ca) is one of those really big IT management firm providing all sorts of IT solutions to businesses. One of their areas of expertise is security management. Since most of our readers are generally home users, we will be taking a look at one of CA’s best security product for Home & Home Office [...]

Windows XP SP3 on Windows Update

Dr. Safemode — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:10:13 +0000

We would like to announced that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) is now finally available on the Windows Update site and Microsoft Download Center site after a terrible recalled last month which contains a couple of bugs. However before you head over to Microsoft to get a copy of SP3, there’s a few things [...]

AVG Anti-virus Free 8.0 Preview

Dr. Safemode — Sun, 04 May 2008 05:03:25 +0000

AVG Anti-virus Free 8.0 was released on April 24,2008 and since then it was installed into our system. Compared to AVG Internet Security 8.0 which we reviewed about two months ago, AVG Free 8.0 only provides the anti-virus, anti-spyware and LinkScanner component minus six other major protection components like anti-rootkit and a firewall. You may [...]

Our RSS System is down

Dr. Safemode — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:57:08 +0000

We recently upgraded our backend software but it seems that our theme template is causing our RSS system to be malfunction. Hopefully the developers will find a fix to it soon. We take this opportunity to apologize for any inconvenience cause. For the time being, please directly visit http://www.drsafemode.com to access our web updates.

Firefox 2.0.0.14 fixes javascript crash

Dr. Safemode — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:25:45 +0000

The latest Firefox 2.0.0.14 internet browser is now available through update and on their official download section. This time it fixes only one security concern which is the MFSA 2008-20 - Crash in Javascript garbage collector (rated Critical). Mozilla believes that this particular crash might not be exploitable but since this type of crash have [...]

Sunbelt VIPRE Anti-virus 3.1.2036 Beta Review

Dr. Safemode — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:13:32 +0000

About a year ago, Sunbelt Software famous for their Counter-Spy product developed a totally new anti-virus engine from scratch - now they have released it under the name VIPRE for public beta. It all began when they realized that they needed an even powerful anti-malware technology. VIPRE is said to employ very powerful heuristic detection [...]

Kraken the Botnet - recruited 400,000 systems

Dr. Safemode — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:52:51 +0000

Damballa Inc. an internet security company based in Georgia - specialized in BotArmies recently discovered a worldwide mega infection of botnets and had given it a name “Kraken“. Botnets are large networks of computers being command and controlled like a zombie. The name was probably derived from which Kraken(a legendary sea monster) is seen infecting [...]

Critical exploit in Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0

Dr. Safemode — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:16:14 +0000

April 8, 2008: Adobe posted a critical update - Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.124.0 to address a critical vulnerability in its existing Flash Player version 9.0.115.0 and below which allows an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe posted this announcement at their security bulletin under vulnerability identifier APSB08-11. All users are suggested [...]