Probably the Best Free Security List in the World
This outstanding list has been compiled by one of our senior security editors, Antti Koponen. The products are listed with the best products first, as judged by Antti. The products are almost exclusively free with some exceptions.
AVG Free 9 offers speed, lacks etiquette
AVG Free 9 introduces few new features, with improvements focused on performance, including claims of faster scan and boot times. AVG is claiming that scans are 50 percent faster compared with AVG 8.
New Ad-Aware offers behavioral detection
Lavasoft has updated its popular malware and spyware detection and removal tool Ad-Aware. Rather than a dramatic redo, version 8.1 builds on the improvements made in the previous version. The new version is faster, has better removal abilities, and introduces a behavioral detection engine.
Optical storage: RIP
TDK recently demo’d an impressive technical achievement: a 10 layer 320 GB optical disk - using standard Blu-ray (BD) drive technology. Too bad it will never be a commercial success. Optical is at the end of the line.
Kindle versus Sony Reader Pocket Edition
E-book readers are starting to become really popular and may be one of the hottest items for the upcoming holiday season. And the prices are starting to fall. Here is a good comparative review of the two hottest readers available today. Personally I am looking strongly at the Sony.
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