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IE8 SmartScreen thwarts 1 billionth malware download

Yes, this news is obviously a little bit of chest-pounding from the boys in Redmond, but there's no denying the stat is impressive. Internet Explorer 8's SmartScreen filter has blocked more than 1 billion malicious downloads. SmartScreen is one of the many way IE8 is a big upgrade from previous versions of Microsoft's browser, and clearly a feature which is helping combat the rising tide of ...

Immunet's free cloud antivirus for Windows steadily gaining users

You may not have heard much about it (if at all), but Immunet Protect's free antivirus for Windows continues to steadily attract new users. On Novermber 19th, their install base was around 20,000 users. Today, that number has reached more than 31,000 and it keeps on growing. Founded by former Symantec research exec Oliver Friedrichs, Immunet has been available as a beta download since August ...

Lockimage: password protects your images

We can think of many reasons why it'd be a good idea to password protect an image, and, whatever your reason may be (patent pictures, blueprints of the Death Star, or maybe a couple naughty shots of the wife), sometimes it's best that others don't find out. To solve this problem, we present Lockimage. It consists of just one file and doesn't need to be installed. Lockimage will convert any ...