Monthly Archive for May, 2008

CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2008 Preview

ca Internet Security Suite Plus 2008 Preview

Computer Associates(ca) is one of those really big IT management firm providing all sorts of IT solutions to businesses. One of their areas of expertise is security management. Since most of our readers are generally home users, we will be taking a look at one of CA’s best security product for Home & Home Office - the CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2008.

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Windows XP SP3 on Windows Update

Windows XP SP3 released

We would like to announced that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) is now finally available on the Windows Update site and Microsoft Download Center site after a terrible recalled last month which contains a couple of bugs. However before you head over to Microsoft to get a copy of SP3, there’s a few things to note which were clearly notified in the SP3 Release Notes.

  • Uninstall Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8 Beta
  • Microsoft Dynamic Retail Management System should not perform update until a hotfix is available
  • Uninstall KB 937468 concerning Remote Desktop Client 6.1
  • and a few more notifications..

AVG Anti-virus Free 8.0 Preview

AVG Free 8.0 released

AVG Anti-virus Free 8.0 was released on April 24,2008 and since then it was installed into our system. Compared to AVG Internet Security 8.0 which we reviewed about two months ago, AVG Free 8.0 only provides the anti-virus, anti-spyware and LinkScanner component minus six other major protection components like anti-rootkit and a firewall. You may think that “Hey, cool! LinkScanner in its free version!” but AVG decided to leave out the pro-active safe surfing module. This means that LinkScanner would not protect you from drive-by-download malwares like in its paid version.

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Our RSS System is down

We recently upgraded our backend software but it seems that our theme template is causing our RSS system to be malfunction. Hopefully the developers will find a fix to it soon. We take this opportunity to apologize for any inconvenience cause. For the time being, please directly visit http://www.drsafemode.com to access our web updates.