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AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is one of the most popular solutions to provide basic security protection on home and non-commercial PCs. We invite you to join the millions of users around the world who rely on AVG's unique award-winning detection methods by downloading AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition.AVG Anti-Virus offers maximum virus protection, product customization, and free virus database updates and technical support. The core of the testing engine is a Virtual Device Driver which loads into memory on Windows startup. Download: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition (33.1MB, *.exe) Documentation: User Manual (580.5KB, *.pdf) Link: Lunarsoft Frontpage

The European Commission has turned up the volume in its investigation of Intel's conduct, with retailers in Germany and Great Britain now confirming they've been raided -- the same retailers mentioned in AMD's civil suit against Intel. Since AMD launched its civil antitrust suit against Intel in June 2005, the matter of whether Intel's private business dealings with Media Markt, Germany's largest technology retailer, has been a subject of debate. Now Media Markt along with UK tech retailer Dixon Services Group (DSG) International report their headquarters have been targeted by unannounced raids from the European Commission's antitrust regulators, on the same day as Int…

After getting an earful from IT professionals on the delayed release of Vista SP1, Microsoft said Monday it would make the software available this month to some customers. Volume-licensing customers will get the English version of the software at the end of this week, Mike Nash, corporate vice president for Windows product management, announced on the Vista Team blog. Nash said other languages would follow but did not give a time frame. Later this month, the service pack will be made available to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers, many of whom lashed out at Microsoft on its TechNet Plus blog with venomous comments. Nash did not provide an exact date. Customers who part…

Is the RIAA as we know it about to disappear? As rumors continue to swirl that EMI will pull its funding from music trade groups like the RIAA and IFPI, an IFPI spokesman tells Ars that the group is in the middle of a major internal review of its operations. That review will include a look at the "structure and operation of the organisation and its relationship with the national groups, with a view to finding greater efficiencies and cutting costs," we're told. That leaves open the possibility that the review could lead to a merger of the IFPI and RIAA, which is the largest (and most expensive) of the "national groups." If that happens, the "RIAA" might disappear even …

The Recording Industry a**. of America (RIAA) has began a legal spat with a man who copied CDs he had bought onto his computer. Jeffery Howell of Scottsdale, Arizon has taken his case to court after he received a letter from the RIAA, reports the Washington Post. The RIAA, which lobbies on behalf of a music industry hammered by tumbling sales as fans increasingly turn to free downloads and file sharing for their listening pleasure, insists that it is illegal for someone who has legally bought a CD to transfer that music into his computer. And, it seems that Howell is the latest individual the RIAA has singled out for special treatment in its legal pantomime. R…

7-Zip 4.57 released.

foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats including MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, and CDDA. foobar2000 also has full Unicode support, advanced tagging capabilities, ReplayGain for both playback and calculation, customizable keyboard shortcuts and more useful features. There is also support for transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component (requires external commandline encoder executables for different output formats). foobar's developer al…

Firefox is an award winning preview of next generation browsing technology from mozilla.org. Firefox empowers you to accomplish your online activities faster, more safely and efficiently than any other browser, period. Built with Tab browsing, popup blocking and a number of other seamless innovations, Firefox stands out ahead. Download: Firefox v2.0.0.10 | All builds (5.78MB, *.exe) Changelog: Release Notes Source: Mozilla Firefox

FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client and server with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. FileZilla is constantly improving and adding more features and functionality. FileZilla works efficiently and is extremely easy to use, even for beginners! Latest Changes : Implement FTP Proxy support. Note that using a properly configured NAT router is recommended instead Implement FTP keep alive for those connecting to improperly configured servers Fix crashes if deletig files in directories with more than 200 entries Compatility improvements with VMS and z/VM servers Now requires GnuTLS 2.0.4 which fixes a problem with servers using compression Changing l…

Pidgin (formerly Gaim) 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. Gaim 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 pr…

OpenOffice.org 2.3 got released September 16'th. OpenOffice.org is a free, open source office suite developed by Sun Microsystems together with the community. Many companies have helped such as IBM. OpenOffice.org is an free cross-platform alternative to Microsoft Office, it is compatible with documents created in Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org have support for ODF (Open Document Format) which is the ISO standard for document exchange. Get it while its hot! http://www.openoffice.org/

FileZilla 3.0, a popular free open source cross-platform FTP client is released. Previously (version 2) only available for Windows. Version 3.0 is available for Windows, Linux and in a couple of days Mac OS X. http://filezilla-project.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileZilla

Open discussion on the AutoPatcher project here. I for one used this frequently both at work and at home. It was also a valuable asset for when I had to travel to a friend's house and fix their computers. I know that jcarle's Windows Update Downloader is available, though AutoPatcher was a great automation tool to make the updating process simple and efficient. The biggest issue I could ever see with it was that it had WGA as an optional component (not the WGA Notifications component) which could allow for people pirating the Windows software to circumvent WGA and update their machines. Update: After talking with a member of the Microsoft staff, we now know wh…

After a week of extensive testing, the CRN Test Center found that users of Windows Vista and Windows XP are equally at risk to viruses and exploits and that overall Vista brings only marginal security advantages over XP. One of Microsoft's big promises with Vista was a more secure operating system. But when stripped to the bare bones and thrown into the wild, wild Web, Vista's security failed to impress Test Center engineers. Vista remains riddled with holes, despite its multilayer security architecture and embedded security tools. Besides providing no improvement in virus protection vs. XP, Vista brings little or no security gains over its predecessor against such …

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/ got released yesterday. It is the great e-mail, newsgroup and RSS reader companion to Mozilla Firefox. 2.0 has new features such as "tagging". It has phishing protection, and all kinds of features too. Easier to setup for webmail accounts, etc.

France's National Center for Space Studies has decided to post the files, from their secret UFO archives, on their cnes.fr website. The files consist of over 100,000 pages of witness testimony, pics, vids, and audio files. Anyone can access the files, but it may take you a while to connect. When they started posting, on Thursday of last week, the server crashed after 3 hours, due to the massive fllod of people trying to view the files.

Can you fix the front page, I didn't understand. Sorry.

An engineer from Advanced Micro Devices has reportedly released source-code of BIOS (basic input/output system) for a mainboard by Gigabyte Technology. The move allows programmers to reprogram BIOS according to their needs, for instance, to get better overclocking functionality. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/di...html#discussion http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/496453

Released (01/28/2007) Download here.

Windows Update has about 8 new security patches, and 3 other patches.

Can't decide whether I like it or not, although I guess it does not matter too much, it is the product that is more important. Source.

I've been using this for a while now, and I like it. Anyway, the latest version was released Jan. 30, 2007. Download here.

Released (01/28/2007) Download here.

Released (01/28/2007) Download here.