pctools.com - 5/26/2009
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Company Awards Spyware Doctor 'Best AntiSpyware Software' - PC World, October 2007 More Awards PC Tools® is a global leader in innovative software products to protect the privacy and security ...
reuters.com - 6/2/2009
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reuters.com —
* First company to launch netbooks using Google's
Android * Move could threaten Microsoft's market dominance *...
No prices yet, but analysts say Windows XP costs about $25 (Adds details, quotes) By Kelvin Soh TAIPEI, June 2 (Reuters) - Acer Inc ( ...
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destructoid.com - 5/23/2009
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destructoid.com —
Remember that sick, sick PC that we posted
about a few months back that was being specially...
created by artist Jake Hildebrandt for the release of Damnation ? Well, it's finally complete, and you can see pics of it from every angle on Jake's Flickr ...
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techradar.com - 5/30/2009
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techradar.com —
Troubleshooting is curious skill. It's part detective work,
part methodical experimentation and part inspired guesswork, and part...
Zen Buddhism. That's a lot of parts but you need them all to be able to sift through a list of symptoms, identify the fault, work out an appropriate remedy and not ...
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Correcting the Rhetoric: Windows Vista Is Secure
eWeek - RSS Feeds —
... systems, 4.5 percent affected browsers, and 86.7 percent affected applications. In other words, it wasn't necessarily Vista that was the problem. But since Microsoft has a vested interest in making itself look good, it's difficult to believe everything it reports. But when a trusted security source, PC Tools, reported recently that Vista is more secure than any other Windows operating system on the market, it should have put the industry on notice. According to the security firm, PC Tools counted 639 unique threats, malicious code that penetrated security software in the ...
Top Antivirus Engines
technicalsea.com —
... (a-squared) Eset Software (ESET NOD32) Fortinet (Fortinet) FRISK Software (F-Prot) F-Secure (F-Secure) G DATA Software (GData) Hacksoft (The Hacker) Hauri (ViRobot) Ikarus Software (Ikarus) INCA Internet (nProtect) K7 Computing (K7AntiVirus) Kaspersky Lab (AVP) McAfee (VirusScan) Microsoft (Malware Protection) Norman (Norman Antivirus) Panda Security (Panda Platinum) PC Tools (PCTools) Prevx (Prevx1) Rising Antivirus (Rising) Secure ...
Harry Potter and the Vengeful Malware
Bits —
Some Internet bad guys are exploiting heightened interest in the new Harry Potter movie to further their devious plot to take over the Web. Their target is people who can be enticed to illegally watch a copy of the new film on the Web. (So perhaps there is some kind of perverse vigilante justice at work here.) PC Tools , a security company bought by Symantec last year, described the attack Thursday on their ...
Bits: Harry Potter and the Vengeful Malware
NYT > Technology —
Some Internet bad guys are exploiting heightened interest in the new Harry Potter movie to further their devious plot to take over the Web. Their target is people who can be enticed to illegally watch a copy of the new film on the Web. (So perhaps there is some kind of perverse vigilante justice at work here.) PC Tools , a security company bought by Symantec last year, described the attack Thursday on their ...
New malware attack targets Twilight fans
Yahoo! Tech Advisors —
... scam making the rounds and exposed by PC Tools , isn't a whole lot different from the usual M.O., but here's a primer on how it works. It all begins with a web search: Users search for "Stephenie Meyer" (a misspelling of the name of the author of the Twilight books) on the web, and find (rather high) in the results a link to a result reading "Stephanie Meyer at 365Multimedia.com," with the description "Stephenie Meyer interview on Twilight the movie starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart." Sounds harmless enough, but 365Multimedia.com doesn't actually host interviews ...
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techradar.com 5/24/2009 — Picture a world where the family PC sports brass pressure gauges to indicate CPU speed and temperature, where LCD displays resemble intricate dressing-table mirrors and where electricity hasn't yet replaced steam as the workhorse of industry. Welcome to the world of Steampunk – a curiously ...
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Atheros hopes for a bounce —
Technology news - CNNMoney.com 5/26/2009
The PC industry has been taking it on the chin lately, so it's no surprise that wireless chipmaker Atheros should be suffering too. The bulk of Atheros's business comes from selling chips that enable Wi-Fi in personal computers and PC-related devices ...
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