The Brass Monkey

Designer Pro has an extremely fast rendering engine (perhaps the fastest of any graphics program) The tools are all very responsive and tight which says to me that the coders wrote it right and tight. This program is not just a vector drawing program which it excels in, it can also be used for basic [...]

Adobe is aware of a potential issue in Adobe Reader posted publicly November 4 on the Full Disclosure list. A proof-of-concept file demonstrating a Denial of Service was published. Arbitrary code execution has not been demonstrated, but may be possible. Adobe is currently investigating this issue. In the meantime, users of Adobe Reader 9.2 or [...]

Researchers used a program called TaintDroid to test some popular free Android applications selected at random from the Android market and found that half were sending private information to advertising servers, including the user’s location and phone number. In some cases, they found that applications were relaying GPS coordinates to remote advertising network servers as [...]

ClearCloud prevents you from being able to access known nasty websites, sites that will download malicious files to your computer. Even better, ClearCloud prevents you from being able to access nasty websites that you may not even know your computer is trying to access—and it prevents those nasty little programs from phoning home. There is [...]

Thoughts on Malwarebytes Anti-Malware version 1.46 At around 5½ Megs it is definitely on the low end in size of all the malware programs except for cloud based Prevx. There are 2 versions of Malwarebytes Anti-malware or MBAM as fans like to refer to it. There is the free version that you have to run [...]

If you use Google Chrome you are familiar with the new tab page which shows thumbs of your recent page visits. Then as extensions became available for the regular releases instead of just on the Dev. channel here comes Speed Dial which has been available for Firefox for quite sometime now. Speed Dial for Chrome [...]

Adobe Flash Player is the most widely used web browser plug-in. It enables a wide range of applications and content on the Internet, from games, to video, to enterprise apps. According to the Chromium Blog the player will be built into the Google Chrome browser soon. In fact the interjection of Flash has already begun [...]

It seems a nasty backdoor Trojan that slipped into software used to monitor rechargeable versions of the product. Just what is going on here? As of this past Wednesday that sneaky ole Trojan was still being distributed in at least one outlet in Europe. This after the bunny fessed up to it´s existence two weeks [...]