Interesting Software and System News

I did not even test it… Another marketing gadget. Worse: technically stupid to not check which version you’re running…

Useless.

Welcome to the
FUTURE OF FIREFOX

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/

Anyone here in the forum testing Firefox 5 alpha?

see my sig :wink:

Logos, afaik.

Thanks! :slight_smile:

It’s working fine? unstable?

it’s working just as fine as 4.0 lol ;D … as there’s hardly any difference at the moment between the two, they haven’t implemented anything new yet… new build comes in 5 weeks or so. Current aurora build just has the label ;)… it’s just the start build. The development process of aurora will be closer to “dev” on Chrome than Chromium, Chromium (nightlies) being the equivalent of Minefield (minefield has actually been renamed now, forgot the new name, may be just noghtly, and it’s the 6.0 branch).

Get a load of this application. It claims to be a security app for women. Why gender would make a difference is beyond me but maybe I’m missing something. Make sure to look at the screenshots. Is it just me or does the GUI look extremely similar to another app we all know of?

http://www.chicalogic.com/chicapc-shield-free

may be break the link in your post, some among the posters on the WOT page are saying it’s a rogue
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/www.chicalogic.com

Looks like a rip-off of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (MBAM)

They won’t be pleased.

It’s definitely not a rogue and the resemblance to MBAM is understandable when you read the following posted by a moderator in the MBAM forums:

“ChicaLogic is a partner with MBAM and an announcement is going to be made shortly in the coming day(s).”

How about a MBAM forum reference ???

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=80728&st=0&p=411025&hl=chicalogic&fromsearch=1&#entry411025

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=78653&st=0&p=403467&#entry403467

http://www.chicalogic.com/press/chicapc-shield-detects-and-destroys-malware-and-restores-pc-in-minutes

Happy 20th Birthday Avast!

http://www.avast.com/pr-avast-software-twenty-years-in-pursuit-of-malware

Happy Birthday Avast! You’ve come a long way Baby. :slight_smile:

not sure I’m quite happy about that at all, Google pack includes immunet ::slight_smile:
http://pack.google.com/intl/en/learn_more_frameset.html

Why ?

It is meant to be compatible with other AVs.

Since I had run this application without any problems in the past and because of Davids comment,
I decided to re-install ImmunetProtect.
After installation, I allowed it to do a check of the programs running in memory.
Big mistake the first thing it did was kill avast!6 IS which was running on this system.
Then it killed WWWFilesharePro which runs MySharedFiles.
I thought that avast! was protected from an outright kill but apparently not.
I also couldn’t restore the avast! program from their quarantine files.

It’s a good thing that I had a fairly recent image to restore my system.
My advice is to stay away from Immunet till it learns that avast1 isn’t a virus.

Mine also. You earn nothing with Immunet imho.

Ashampoo warns of security breach

“Software company Ashampoo has been forced to issue a warning to customers after one of its servers was hacked. While no financial or credit-card information was taken, Ashampoo is keen to stress this information was not held on this server, hackers are believed to have obtained names and email addresses.”

http://www.betanews.com/article/Ashampoo-warns-of-security-breach/1303479933

I remember at one time there were people on these forums testing their products, so this is a heads up.