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One of the first things many people do, when they find that Outlook will let them use different fonts and stationery in their emails, is to start experimenting.
While personal friends may think these are cute, we quickly realize that many others don’t want to all the glitz and glitter — they read emails and mailing [...]

Malware is reaching new heights, and going into Space through a removable media carrying the W32.Gammima.AG password stealing malware to the International Space Station. According to SpaceRef.com : “W32.Gammima.AG worm is a level 0 gaming virus intended to gather personal information. Virus was never a threat to any of…

 
Sunbelt Software’s VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware does Windows Vista — not just Vista home, not just Vista 32-bit. VIPRE does Vista!
According to the VIPRE requirements page, it supports the following operating systems:
# Windows 2000 SP4 RollUp 1
# Windows Server 2003
# Windows Server 2008
# Windows XP SP1, SP2, SP3 (Home, Pro, Media Center, [...]

According to computer scientists at the University of Michigan UM, installing an antivirus software on your personal computer might soon become useless. The research team has used a new approach, called CloudAV, which moves antivirus functionality into the ‘network cloud’ and off personal computers. This next-generation antivirus system ‘virtualizes and…

The other day when I blogged about Sunbelt Software’s latest VIPRE antivirus solution I took the claims that it doesn’t slow down your PC pretty much at face value. Time to see if there’s any validity to these claims. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

OK, you have a new computer and you’ve made the decision to keep your old computer, and you want your spouse and children to be able to do email and surf the web without demanding your computer.
Let’s assume you already have an existing home computer network — if you don’t, the first article in this [...]

Sunbelt Software’s VIPRE – I’ve finally found an antivirus package that delivers the goods. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Let’s for a moment visualize a virtualized desktop environment. An operating system offering a type 2 hypervisor is acting as the primary operating system in a desktop virtualization implementation. This could be Linux sporting Xen or KVM. It could be Windows running something like Parallels or Virtual PC. It could…