Choosing an anti-virus program for Windows 7
If you're moving from XP to Windows 7, you'll have to get and install a new one. In theory, you can move from Vista to Windows 7 without installing a new program. Don't! Anti-virus software tends to be cranky about change at the best of times so plan on installing a new anti-viral program right after you finish upgrading.
AVG Delivers Small Business Security Offerings
AVG Technologies has announced the general availability of its latest small business security products, AVG Internet Security Business Edition 9.0 and AVG Anti-Virus Business Edition 9.0.
Microsoft defends its anti-malware software after Symantec piles on
Microsoft is defending the merits of its free Security Essentials anti-malware software after a top Symantec engineer badmouthed the new release.
Independent tester: Security Essentials 'very good'
Microsoft's free Security Essentials antivirus software identified 98% of over half a million malware samples, an accuracy rating an independent testing company called "very good" today.
Anti-malware test in hand, Symantec swats Microsoft Security Essentials
Armed with an anti-malware test report that pits Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 2009 against Microsoft's just-released Security Essentials software, a top Symantec engineer ripped into the new consumer anti-malware as an unimpressive re-cycling of Microsoft's discontinued Live OneCare technology.
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New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
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Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
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Guard your Wi-Fi for your own sake
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Grepping on Whole Words
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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