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What’s a Windows user to do? Between the most recent zero-day exploit to affect Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox recently named as the most vulnerable application on the Windows platform, even with all Windows updates installed, virus protection and the current version of your browser, you can still end up with a nasty malware infection.
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UPDATE: Adobe released Flash Player 10.0.12.36. Look-wise, it’s an improvement. Take a look at the 3-D effects that Flash Player 10 supports at Alternativa’s demo site.
New versions usually mean new vulnerabilities. Protect yourself with Firefox + the NoScript add-on.
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Adobe recently acknowledged a critical issue with its Flash Player. Named “clickjacking,” this occurs when a user [...]

Since mid-August 2008, users have been reporting “malvertisements,” maliciously-designed Adobe Flash banner advertisements that copy text to the clipboard in Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
While this “hijacking attack” does not infect computers directly, it copies the URL of a website offering bogus “security software.” Apparently the bad guys’ hope is that you [...]

If you’re a Firefox browser user, backing up your browser’s settings is a good idea generally. If you plan to upgrade to the current version, Firefox 3.0.1, it’s critical that you have a backup on hand, just in case one or more of your favorite add-ons don’t work properly.
Why Upgrade Firefox?
If everything’s working well, why [...]

Slickdeals bills itself as “the most frequently updated and complete deal site on the web,” and it is worth a look. It is a “one-stop” site that lists the latest “buy one, get one free” offers for fast-food restaurants, rebates, and how to get a “free” razor in exchange for your personal information.
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TinyURL is a handy service for creating shortcut links from long web addresses (Uniform Resource Locators, or URLs). For example, you’d like to email a very lengthy URL, such as MapQuest directions to your home. If you paste the link in an email, it may look OK to you, but for the person receiving the [...]

Despite the “cool factor” that Macromedia Flash animations bring to a web page, you might want to limit Flash on your PC. You may have a computer with only a small amount of RAM that you don’t want Flash animations to gobble up.
Perhaps you’ve read about (or seen!) “malvertisements,” maliciously-designed Flash animations that display seemingly-helpful [...]

Bob Dykes, CEO of NebuAd, was recently questioned at a House subcommittee meeting by Rep. Edward Markey (D - MA), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. NebuAd is one of the advertising companies which use deep packet inspection (DPI) to examine the (unencrypted) web traffic of the customers of the internet [...]

We recently mentioned that you can point your router or browser to OpenDNS’s DNS servers to protect your computers from the DNS Poisoned Cache vulnerability brought to light by Dan Kaminsky. While many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have patched their DNS servers, others have not yet done so.
There is another reason to consider OpenDNS, as [...]

Just as your ears might be assaulted by someone’s foul mouth as you walk down the street, you might unwittingly come across some family un-friendly language on a web page. You may not browse to any overtly nasty sites, but on sites that allow unmoderated comments, some people might leave some profanity-laced prose.
The Profanity Filter [...]