An update from AVG on Wednesday night forced all 64 bit Windows 7 systems into a continuous reboot loop. The bug has affected both the server and desktop versions of the 64bit Windows 7.

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Koobface is a trojan that has been going around in social networking sites like – Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc. It originally started as a Windows only trojan. But a few days ago, a new variant emerged which can infect both Mac OS X and Linux.

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Almost a year ago when Microsoft was busy developing it’s free to use anti-virus – “Morro” there was a lot of speculation about it in the tech industry. Someone from Norton even said that Microsoft is two to four years behind Symantec in the Anti-virus products. Now after one year, tests have proved that Microsoft is finally catching up with the Anti-virus industry leader – Symantec.

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Microsoft has released the first beta of its new Security Essential software. The new Security Essential features an updated anti-malware engine which is better at both detecting and removing malware. Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Beta is directly integrated with the Firewall and gives users the option to either turn off the firewall or turn it…

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An update in the popular Antivirus, McAfee, is causing Windows Xp to reboot continuously. So, far it has been reported that the problem is only with the McAfee corporate customers. The update, identified as DAT update 5958, identifies svhost.exe as a threat and deletes it. This results in the machine rebooting continuously.

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According to anti-virus firm Avast, ads provided by large providers like Google, Yahoo! and Fox are delivering malwares along with their ads. This does not affect only the three mentioned above. Avast termed this as the “probably the biggest ad poisoning ever made”. The poisoning discovered by them is said to affect almost all the…

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Freenet is a decentralized, censorship-resistant distributed data store. Freenet aims to provide freedom of speech through a peer-to-peer network with strong protection of anonymity. Freenet works by pooling the contributed bandwidth and storage space of member computers to allow users to anonymously publish or retrieve various kinds of information. (via Wikipedia)

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Recently, many phishing scams have been spreading around in Twitter causing a trouble to a lot of users. These scams relies on one of the basic things behind Twitter – the use of URL shortening services as tweets are limited to 140 characters. By hiding behind these seemingly innocent shortened links, scammers have been passing…

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Microsoft told Windows XP users today not to press the F1 key when prompted by a Web site. This was a reaction to an bug in VBScript that Polish researcher Maurycy Prodeus had revealed Friday. The vulnerability could enable hackers  to hijack PCs running Internet Explorer (IE). Microsoft noted that hackers exploiting the VBScript flaw…

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