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The Amazon.com software deal of this week includes Mcfee Antivirus Plus 2010 (3 users). The list price is USD$60 but now you can get it at only USD$18.99! Saved 68%!

What’s new about Mcfee Antivirus Plus 2010?

• Active Protection — Say good bye to slow dat downloads. New threats will be analyzed and blocked in milliseconds, so you don’t have to wait for regular updates to arrive.
• Quickscan — checks for threats in the areas of your computer that are most often attacked.
• Faster performance — faster startup, shutdown, and scan times. Run silently in the background without slowing down your PC.
• Power optimization — deferring scheduled scans until your notebook is plugged in. Can also be set up to shut down your PC automatically after running antivirus scan to help save energy.

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Well, here is another update of WordPress 2.8 (23 days after the 2.8.5 upgrade), the WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release.

[WordPress] 2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges.

If you blog has untrusted authors, then upgrading to 2.8.6 (download) is recommended.

My blog has only me and my proofreader. I skipped this update. How about you?

Lifehacker asked its readers to vote for their best antivirus programs and picked the 5 top anti-virus software: Avast, Microsoft Security Essentials, Avira, ESET NOD32 Antivirus, and AVG.

I was surprised that some famous anti-virus programs are not in the list, such as: Norton, Mcfee, Trend Micro, F-Secure, and Kaspersky.

Personally, I am on Mac and I don’t need any antivirus app but I installed VirusBarrier for Mac to scan files for virus, so that I don’t spread viruses to my PC friends.

If any PC friend asks me, I would recommend AVG Free Antivirus.

For my younger brother, after testing several antivirus programs, he recommends Kaspersky Anti-virus. “It is a very powerful antivirus program, but sometimes too powerful..”, he comments.

Check out Best Selling Anti-Virus Softwares on Amazon.com and their discount prices.

Over to You

What’s your choice of anti-virus software (both free & paid), and Why?

Today I received my first ever spam message in my Facebook Inbox from a friend’s Facebook account. Have you received similar spam message before?

The multiple recipients message with a subject line “hey” and the message body is:

You weree sighteed on our seccret ccamera!
http://bit.ly/4EOyWX

The bit.ly short URL redirected to an error page with text

“Traffic Back URL not using.”

Seems like the spam page has been removed. The domain name “bestdatingdirect.com” looks like a dating site. But visit the root domain page, only shows a online contact form.

Although the Facebook spam message does not do any harm to me, but it means that Facebook Inbox messages is no longer spam-proof.

Do NOT follow any website link that you do not know, even if it is sent by your best friend!

The simplest way to check is by sending a reply message and ask your Facebook friend to confirm about the website link sent to you.

Have you received similar spam message in Facebook before? How did you deal with it? Have spammers attacks your Facebook friends? Have Facebook spammer flood your Facebook news feed?

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While Mozilla Firefox celebrates its 5th birthday, Cenzic, an application security vendor, claims that the Mozilla Firefox led the field of Web browsers in terms of total vulnerabilities.

This is certainly not a good news for Mozilla.

According to Cenzic, Firefox accounted for 44 percent of all browser vulnerabilities reported in the first half of 2009. In contrast, Apple’s Safari had 35 percent of all reported browser vulnerability, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was third at 15 percent and Opera had just six percent share.

Does it make Firefox a dangerous web browser?

The Firefox plug-ins are one of the main reasons of the vulnerabilities. Mozilla launched a plug-in checker in Oct 2009 to address the problem.

Ironically, while Firefox has the most vulnerabilities, Cenzic themselves use Mozilla technology within its own solutions.

[via InternetNews.com]

Tip: Install NoScript addon to make your Firefox safer.