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CCleaner - also known as Crap Cleaner - is a disk cleanup utility that goes beyond the scope of the built in Windows Disk Cleanup tool. Featuring the ability to clean up temporary files, browser history and cache, the Recycle Bin, along with Windows applications that you install. There is also a registry cleaner, uninstall helper, startup manager, System Restore manager and disk wiper. You can choose to have your data cleaned with a single pass or range up to the Gutmann 35 pass data cleaning sequence. There's even a cookie manager and free space wiper. One of the great things about CCleaner is that it automates all of these cleanings so you don't have to hunt down these …

Over the past two weeks we have been working hard behind the scenes to prepare for a much needed update to our frontpage software. We have made sure that the theme we use would be up to date and match our forums along with ensuring our plugins would be up to date as well. While we did have to wait for a few plugins, the time quickly passed as we worked diligently on getting the theme reskinned. There are still some bugs that we're ironing out but everything should be working good as ever quite soon! If you encounter any bugs, please let us know about them on the forums. View the full article

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Brothersoft is celebrating their 9th anniversary and they want to celebrate it with you. You have a chance to win a Brothersoft 9th Anniversary Limited Edition tshirt. Interested? Here's how you can enter to get a shirt. 1. Click the "Join" button and tweet the activity news. 2. Follow Brothersoft on Twitter Then you will be considered for this giveaway. The Winners will be picked at random, so everyone will have the equal chance. Remember the rate of winning prize can reach 50%. Brothersoft is one of the top download websites available on the Internet. They keep getting better and better. Here's to another great year, Brothersoft. Looking forward to celebratin…

Brothersoft is celebrating their 9th anniversary and they want to celebrate it with you. You have a chance to win a Brothersoft 9th Anniversary Limited Edition tshirt. Interested? Here's how you can enter to get a shirt. 1. Click the "Join" button and tweet the activity news. 2. Follow Brothersoft on Twitter Then you will be considered for this giveaway. The Winners will be picked at random, so everyone will have the equal chance. Remember the rate of winning prize can reach 50%. Brothersoft is one of the top download websites available on the Internet. They keep getting better and better. Here's to another great year, Brothersoft. Looking forward to cele…

The Lunarsoft Forums are offline while upgrading to the latest version. We will have updates posted on our Facebook feed as to everything that is happening. Feel free to Like and follow what's happening at the Lunarsoft Facebook page. This post will also be updated once the upgrade has successfully finished. View the full article

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is a full-blown anti-malware program that has recently left the labs and can be considered the next step in the detection and removal of malware. Malwarebytes Team put together a host of new technologies that were specially designed to quickly detect, deter and destroy any malware that could reside in your computer. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware monitors every process and actually stops malicious processes before they even start. It uses an impressive technology that is in fact a completely novel way of heuristic scanning and it is the teams response to the increasingly complex malware threats. And, as they did with Malwarebytes' RogueRemover we…

Firefox (referred to as Fx) is an open source browser developed by Mozilla. The second most popular browser worldwide, Firefox features a customizable user interface that allows you to enhance it using custom themes and Personas. Personas change the appearance of the user interface without rearranging the elements. Themes however, can completely change the UI ranging from the types of buttons to the color sceme used. Add-ons allow you to customize Firefox to your liking to make a more enjoyable web surfing experience. Some examples of popular add-ons that you can use to customize Firefox are AdBlock Plus, DownThemAll!, TabMixPlus and many more. Firefox has tabbed brows…

VLC (VideoLAN) is a multi-platform multimedia player that is driven by open-source development. It can read DVDs, VCDs, MPEG, and DivX files and from a satellite card. It can also read a stream from a network sent by the VideoLAN Server or another source. The stream can be MPEG 2 TS in UDP or HTTP packets unicasted or multicasted on an IPv4 or IPv6 network. Download: VLC media player 1.1.11 | Other Versions Changes: Changes Homepage: VideoLAN View the full article

Recently Support.com acquired SUPERAntiSpyware for a healthy sum of $8.5 million. The deal is expected to finalize by the end of the year. SUPERAntiSpyware is a free tool that is extremely useful when cleaning up a system. It’s offered in both paid and free versions, but for most the free product delivers as promised. What many people don’t know is that SUPERAntiSpyware, headquartered in Eugene, Oregon, is developed and maintained by a staff of ten. Those ten people, including founder Nick Skrepetos, will join Support.com full-time once the $8.5 million dollar deal is complete. What changes will this mean for the SUPERAntiSpyware software? Th…

Recently Support.com acquired SUPERAntiSpyware for a healthy sum of $8.5 million. The deal is expected to finalize by the end of the year. SUPERAntiSpyware is a free tool that is extremely useful when cleaning up a system. It's offered in both paid and free versions, but for most the free product delivers as promised. What many people don't know is that SUPERAntiSpyware, headquartered in Eugene, Oregon, is developed and maintained by a staff of ten. Those ten people, including founder Nick Skrepetos, will join Support.com full-time once the $8.5 million dollar deal is complete. What changes will this mean for the SUPERAntiSpyware software? That much is unclear at th…

Adobe have released Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.22 (10.3.181.23 for Internet Explorer) This fixes a Zero-Day security vulnerability that is being actively exploited in Windows. From Adobe's Security Bulletin: If you don't like Adobe's Download Manager and want to download the standalone installers for IE or Firefox, see the links I posted for Internet Explorer and for Firefox in this topic. .

The royalty free cross platform API for browser based 3D graphics known as WebGL has been found to be insecure and potentially harmful to machines. Apparently WebGL allows other web pages to exploit the browser. WebGL utilizes hardware acceleration and because of more of the user system can be exposed. The reason for that is that WebGL access is the graphics card drivers. So, if there are vulnerabilities that are discovered in graphics cards there isn’t a simple security update the can be run. The driver rules differ from one piece of hardware to the next. Microsoft Security Response Center Engineering has issued an announcement and support of evidence statin…

By now many of you have heard of LulzSec. You may have heard of their recent activities such as launching DDoS attacks against gaming sites to hacking into government affiliated web sites. They have also been using Twitter to talk about what they're doing along with cracking a few jokes. Recently, the group obtained a long list of e-mail addresses and approximately 62,000 passwords. Of these, some of the most common passwords were really to be expected. Some of those common passwords include “123456â€, “11111â€, “0000â€, “1234†and of course “passwordâ€. This should be a good reminder to many people to make sure that they use complex passwords. It's very …

Firefox (referred to as Fx) is an open source browser developed by Mozilla. The second most popular browser worldwide, Firefox features a customizable user interface that allows you to enhance it using custom themes and Personas. Personas change the appearance of the user interface without rearranging the elements. Themes however, can completely change the UI ranging from the types of buttons to the color sceme used. Add-ons allow you to customize Firefox to your liking to make a more enjoyable web surfing experience. Some examples of popular add-ons that you can use to customize Firefox are AdBlock Plus, DownThemAll!, TabMixPlus and many more. Firefox has tabbed brows…

Malwarebytes has certainly been getting a lot of attention from other companies. In 2009, IOBit decided to take advantage of Malwarebytes definition files by implementing them into their own. Malwarebytes quickly caught wind of this and accused Chinese software firm IOBit so reverse engineering it's malware signatures. This of course brought about a lot of commotion and IOBit received a lot of negative press. Thankfully, they finally did the right thing and removed Malwarebytes definitions from their own definitions. Recently, ChronoPay revealed to security researcher and journalist Brian Krebs that they've hired programmers to reverse engineer the free version of Malw…

CCleaner - also known as Crap Cleaner - is a disk cleanup utility that goes beyond the scope of the built in Windows Disk Cleanup tool. Featuring the ability to clean up temporary files, browser history and cache, the Recycle Bin, along with Windows applications that you install. There is also a registry cleaner, uninstall helper, startup manager, System Restore manager and disk wiper. You can choose to have your data cleaned with a single pass or range up to the Gutmann 35 pass data cleaning sequence. There's even a cookie manager and free space wiper. One of the great things about CCleaner is that it automates all of these cleanings so you don't have to hunt down these …

Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr networks. Pidgin users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time. Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many…

Malwarebytes has certainly been getting a lot of attention from other companies. In 2009, IOBit decided to take advantage of Malwarebytes definition files by implementing them into their own. Malwarebytes quickly caught wind of this and accused Chinese software firm IOBit so reverse engineering it's malware signatures. This of course brought about a lot of commotion and IOBit received a lot of negative press. Thankfully, they finally did the right thing and removed Malwarebytes definitions from their own definitions. Recently, ChronoPay revealed to security researcher and journalist Brian Krebs that they've hired programmers to reverse engineer the free version of Malw…

The update to the anti-malware engine will be starting with Microsoft Security Essentials and will also update security solutions such as: Forefront Client Security, Forefront Endpoint Protection, and Windows Intune Endpoint Protection. The new engine version will be in the range of 1.1.700X.0. Aside from the change in the version number no other actual information has been revealed about what changes are being made. However, with the engine receiving an upgrade it is believed that the detection will improve. If this is anything like the last engine upgrade then it may be a little late. Considering the recent studies have shown that the Microsoft Security Essentials…

The update to the anti-malware engine will be starting with Microsoft Security Essentials and will also update security solutions such as: Forefront Client Security, Forefront Endpoint Protection, and Windows Intune Endpoint Protection. The new engine version will be in the range of 1.1.700X.0. Aside from the change in the version number no other actual information has been revealed about what changes are being made. However, with the engine receiving an upgrade it is believed that the detection will improve. If this is anything like the last engine upgrade then it may be a little late. Considering the recent studies have shown that the Microsoft Security Essent…

By now many of you have heard of LulzSec. You may have heard of their recent activities such as launching DDoS attacks against gaming sites to hacking into government affiliated web sites. They have also been using Twitter to talk about what they’re doing along with cracking a few jokes. Recently, the group obtained a long list of e-mail addresses and approximately 62,000 passwords. Of these, some of the most common passwords were really to be expected. Some of those common passwords include “123456”, “11111”, “0000”, “1234” and of course “password”. Thi…

The royalty free cross platform API for browser based 3D graphics known as WebGL has been found to be insecure and potentially harmful to machines. Apparently WebGL allows other web pages to exploit the browser. WebGL utilizes hardware acceleration and because of more of the user system can be exposed. The reason for that is that WebGL access is the graphics card drivers. So, if there are vulnerabilities that are discovered in graphics cards there isn’t a simple security update the can be run. The driver rules differ from one piece of hardware to the next. Microsoft Security Response Center Engineering has issued an announcement and support of evidence stat…

Twitter has become the owner of the domain name re-tweet.com. The article says Twitter bought the domain from an individual named David Quinlan on June 13, 2011. The domain Re-tweet.com was sold through a Flippa auction a few months ago, but Twitter finally got it for only $150. Twitter has long been trying to acquire a U.S. trademark for 'retweet', which is a way for users to easily spread other people's public messages on Twitter, but the company still hasn't made it its own. Source: Brothersoft View the full article

Twitter has become the owner of the domain name re-tweet.com. The article says Twitter bought the domain from an individual named David Quinlan on June 13, 2011. The domain Re-tweet.com was sold through a Flippa auction a few months ago, but Twitter finally got it for only $150. Twitter has long been trying to acquire a U.S. trademark for 'retweet', which is a way for users to easily spread other people's public messages on Twitter, but the company still hasn't made it its own. Source: Brothersoft View the full article