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Sorry to say I have to uninstall Avast 5.0 antivirus and install Panda Cloud Free Antivirus. Why? Avast detected a virus in my PC but can’t remove it even I did a boot time scan.

Panda Cloud antivirus is the first Cloud Antivirus, and most important it is Free! What is cloud antivirus? Unlike traditional antivirus that need download virus update and scan locally, this does NOT require virus update!

Low Memory and CPU Usage

Instead, it scan via the cloud aka remote servers through Internet connection. Which means it always scan with the latest virus pattern with minimum memory and CPU usage on local computer.

I’m not going to write full review on it. It has been reviewed by LiewCF, you may find more details and installation tips here. (more…)

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Avast is now one of the most popular free antivirus software. The version 5.0 has redesigned the user interface, improves virus detection engine and potentially unwanted programs detection.

The Avast! Free Antivirus 5.0 includes comprehensive protection with features below:

• Antivirus and anti-spyware engine
• Real time anti-rootkit protection
• avast! Community IQ
• Code emulator
• Heuristics engine
• Potentially unwanted programs detection
• avast! Intelligent Scanner
• Behavior Shield
• Smart virus definition updates
• Fast application of updates
• Silent/Gaming Mode
• Multi-threaded scanning optimization
• File System Shield, Mail Shield, Web Shield, P2P Shield, IM Shield, Network Shield

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I have been using Math Comment Spam protection for quite some time. It is a simple WordPress plugin, yet awesome spam protection results.

The Math Comment Spam plugin running well until my readers told me they can’t give comment. I checked on the plugin no problem found, at last give up the plugin because cannot find the root cause.

Hundred of Spam Daily

I thought Akismet plugin should be able block those spam. Yes, it helps to identify spam comment and trackback. But it is annoying to go through huge amount of spam comments to find out which not spam.

Spam comments come in non-stop everyday, highest one get 141 spam comments in a day!

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Have you change default SSH password of jailbroken iPhone? (read this if you have not do so). Change the default password immediately!

The worm is not friendly this time. It won’t change the wallpaper but steal data and send to remote server. It is serious if got your credit card or bank account confidential information. Worst is it spread via WiFI and 3G connection.

How to know iPhone infected by worm? One symptom is the battery life will be very, very short when the device is connected to WiFi, because the worm is generating so much network activity.

Kill iPhone Worm?

There are NO fix yet. You ONLY have two way to prevent it. Either change default password or restore official iPhone firmware if you want stay away from jailbreak vulnerability.

[via Sophos]

As expected Windows 7 has been cracked but this time in less than 1 month since its release.

Hacker use so called Remove WAT tool to disable the Windows Activation Technologies whilst retaining Windows genuine status. That means can receive all windows updates without problem. (more…)