We take a closer look at some of the key new releases and important updates that you may have missed during the last 7 days. Nero Multimedia Suite 11 is a suite of all the tools you would need to edit, protect and save all of your favourite photos, music and video files.
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TETTNANG, Germany, Oct 04, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — IT security expert Avira today announced the arrival of Version 2012 of its world-famous antivirus computer security software. The focus of Avira’s 2012 software product line is giving consumers, micro and small businesses more security protection while removing the complexity typically associated with Internet security.
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When a security suite vendor tells you that they’ve “overhauled” their programs, often the changes are somewhere between a new coat of paint and an oil change.
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Microsoft’s Security Essentials antivirus software flagged Google Chrome as malware and removes it from the PCs of thousands of people.
The antivirus application appears to have identified Google Chrome as the PWS: Win32/Zbot virus, a variation of the Zeus Trojan, and repeatedly blocked it or even deleted it from customers’ machines. Approximately 3,000 users were affected.
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Cox Communications, looking to further differentiate its broadband services from telco competitors’, is providing high-speed Internet subscribers security software and online backup for no additional charge.
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Given the recent discovery of an Apple malware toolkit, and the fact we have a number of Mac OS X endpoints in our shop, are special precautions necessary to defend these machines from malware and prevent them from becoming zombie machines in a botnet?
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Apple has just been granted a patent that will be interesting to follow in the hardware community. Can you validate a patent for an illuminated computing device “housing” that was filed in July of 2009?
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Q: I have a Microsoft Windows XP desktop computer. It is 9 years old … still works, but I would like to update.
I like the feel of a desktop (used mostly for searching the Net, e-mail, burning CDs) but do not want the wires, speakers, etc., that come along with it.
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Google is currently testing the concept of running bricks and mortar shops dedicated to the group’s products.
Google Store Chrome ZoneThe Chrome Zone space opened its doors at 9am on Friday the 30th of September in the PC World shop on the Tottenham Court Road high street in London, in the United Kingdom.
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The benefits and cost-savings of allowing employees to work from home have received much attention — it cuts down on commuting expenses for staff as well as overhead within your own office, and provides your employees with morale-boosting work-life flexibility. In my own company, we’ve allowed several employees to telecommute for a variety of reasons — physical disability, an ailing spouse who couldn’t be left alone, a new baby, a severe allergy to fragrances. In all of these instances, we were very pleased with the success of our work-from-home arrangements. But telecommuting also comes with risks — chief among them, security issues and liability issues, on top of the issues that naturally crop up when managing someone who isn’t physically in the same location as you.
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