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And we enjoy getting direct feedback to let us know how we're doing - whether it's an e-mail from a satisfied customer, a testimonial on a blog, or a reference on a tech site.
Even if excessive consumption of alcohol has grave consequences to your health, e-mailing while drunk can be even more hazardous to your relationships, private and professional alike. Google seems to think that this is enough of a problem to introduce Mail Goggles, a new experimental feature in Gmail.
To followup on my last post on cyber security awareness - the results of two recently released surveys show us that not only are security concerns a cause of worry for the majority of Internet users, many are not as secure as they might think.
The Internet has a dark side that can put each of us in harms way - browse the news, and you'll see headline after headline about record numbers of viruses, along with the latest phishing attempts, malware attacks, and other cyber thievery. Seeing how rapidly cyber crime is progressing can become pretty depressing, not to mention discouraging, for all of us who depend on the Internet as a daily part of our lives.
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The votes have been tallied in the Softonic Awards 2008 and the results of your selections of the best programs of the year are now in.
And the win for the Best Anti-spyware program goes to ?
Ad-Aware 2008!
Thanks to everyone who voted for our software!
The Internet has become a major scene for sharing all sorts of media files. These files may have been compressed using different codecs, some free and some commercial. What is a codec? A codec, in this case, is used to decode compressed data streams in order to make them viewable and audible in a proper player. Watching an AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) video and audio file with compressed data, or other compressed movie formats, may require a proper codec. The amount of codecs out there amounts to a level that makes it hard for common users to find and install the correct one required to play an eagerly awaited sequence of images. The situation gets even more complicated considering that unscrupulous individuals want to transform the common codec-eagerness into cash in, one way or another, by offering fake codecs. Read more below about false codec lures, codecs in general and possible ways to avoid getting scammed-
You may have noticed that we posted some instruction videos for Ad-Aware a while ago. If you haven't watched them already, I highly recommend it - Patrick's done a great job with these with lots of useful information, especially in the later installments.
While we are on the subject of Internet video, Mjukvara.se has published a couple of nice video reviews for Ad-Aware and Lavasoft Personal Firewall in Swedish. So if you speak the language of vikings, check out the videos - they're quite well made.
Mjukvara.se: Swedish review of Ad-Aware 2008 Pro
Mjukvara.se: Swedish review of Lavasoft Personal Firewall
In the U.S., the upcoming presidential election in November is not just a political hot topic - it has also found its way into the security arena.
Months ago, security experts began predicting that online scammers would take advantage of the media hype surrounding the presidential candidates to prey on computer users. We're already seeing the online risks being noted and reported in a number of ways, including:
- Phony voter-registration drives aimed at ID theft
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