Archive for: October 2008

Software trade group Business Software Alliance or BSA has revealed findings of its own study that found that for every 10 software products sold via the Internet, about four are pirated copies of original OEM software. The most usual victim …

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Moving files between computers on a floppy disk (the so-called “sneakernet”) is a thing of the past. If you have more than one computer in …

Introduction Most people have heard of software licensing and pay per view television, but possibly not connected it with a development in technology called Digital Rights Management (DRM). To understand what DRM is trying to achieve you first of all …

The phishing activities has been increased and many of the financial institutions systems hit by the phishers this year. There is a need to curb these activities and do a deep research to overcome.

The financial sector’s increased reliance on the …

Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch to fix an extremely critical worm hole that exposes Windows users to remote code execution attacks.

The emergency update comes just one week after the regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday and follows the discovery of a …

Getting Firefox installed on your computer is your first step to using it. The below reading will show you how to install Firefox on Linux.

Many Linux distributions include Firefox by default. Some distributions include IceWeasel, which is a version of …

AVG Internet Security is a software package for Microsoft Windows. It includes a firewall component, which controls which programs can access the outside world. If AVG Internet Security is not set to fully allow Firefox, Firefox will be unable to …

Symantec Corp.  today announced the 2008 North American Partner Award winners at Symantec Partner Engage 2008. The Symantec Partner Awards recognize channel leaders for their success in partnering with Symantec to help joint customers protect their information-driven businesses. These organizations …

Microsoft Corp. has announced that it will start beta testing the next service pack update for Windows Vista in coming weeks.

The update release will be SP2 for Vista, the operating system which has started fairing well. Familiar sources cited that …

The Federal Trade Commission urged Internet users to be on guard against e-mails that look as if they come from a financial institution that recently acquired a consumer’s bank, savings and loan, or mortgage.

“In fact, these messages may be from …

There is an email making the rounds which appears to be from
“Microsoft Corporation Security Center” with a subject line of
“Internet Security Update”.

The email has an attachment which the email describes as being
the “1 Mar 2002 Cumulative Patch” for IE.  The …