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I recently made some boot changes to a notebook computer that resulted in a remarkable increase in the boot speed.
It was a small, light Sony — one of the 12-inch monitor models.
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With notebooks, you can get small, light, fast and cheap.
Pick any two…
In this particular case, the notebook took 4.5 minutes to boot, [...]

Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products, McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found, and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own products : “A recent…

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UPDATE: McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position. In what appears to be either a common scenario of “when the security solution ends up the security problem itself”, or a product launch basing its strategy on outlining the increasing number of critical vulnerabilities found in…

Kaspersky’s most recent product launch of the Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, is featuring a virtual keyboard “a secure pop-up that enables logins, passwords, bank card details and other important personal information to be entered safely to prevent the theft of confidential information” aiming to protect users from keyloggers, and consequently…