According to Kaspersky Lab (June 5, 2008), the new Virus.Win32.Gpcode.ak variant is said to take your personal files hostage by encrypting them with a 1024-bit key, a huge upgrade from the previous Gpcode variant which was using a 660-bit key.
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How would you like an anti-virus software which is specially made for gamers? Bitdefender GameSafe was launched last month to specifically target the gaming community.
One of the very troublesome matter faced by gamers are pop-up appearing during a game causing a full-screen game window to minimize. Pop-ups ranging from virus update definitions, firewall permission/blocked alert and to virus found alerts frequently disturbs the gamer from enjoying the full quality of a game.
According to Bitdefender’s GameSafe press release “A system slow-down can have a life or death consequences in the virtual world. GameSafe keeps the impact on processing power, memory and virtual memory to a minimum, allowing gamers to maintain “in-game” responsiveness and eliminating interruptions during play.”
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The vundo trojan is one of the most caught PC infection on many online scanners. According to Symantec, Trojan.Vundo is an adware program that downloads and then pop-up advertisement. You can be easily infected by visiting a Vundo resided website through a link in a spam mail.
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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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.
