Spybot Search & Destroy is a free Anti-Spyware program. It can help you with removing those annoying and sometimes dangerous spyware threats.

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Spybot Search and Destroy searches your hard drive for so-called spy- or adbots; that is, little modules that are responsible for the ads many programs display. Many of these modules also transmit information, including your surfing behavior on the Internet. If it finds such modules, it can remove them. In most cases the host still runs fine after removing the spyware/adware.

Another feature is the removal of usage tracks, which makes it more complicated for unknown spybots to transmit useful data. The list of last visited websites, opened files, started programs, cookies, all that and more can be cleaned. Supported are the three major browsers Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, and Opera.

It is recommended to scan your computer from time to time to ensure you are free of spyware/adware.

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If you are looking for or need a software firewall, there a few choices when it comes to freeware.

Comodo Firewall Pro is the best free firewall i have tested. I has a nice set of features, the interface is good and has options for averyone. I read also that it has passed some standard tests before so it can protect you against know network attacks.

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Some days ago there were reports of a flaw in the Macrovision SafeDisc component in Windows XP and Windows 2003. For those of you who didn’t know SafeDisc is embedded in Windows as a part of the Microsoft DRM security scheme. The vulnerability is not critical as it may seem because it requires a local system account to exploit it.

The component responsible for the flaw is the SafeDisc driver SECDRV.SYS.

Microsoft has said that it will provide an update in the next Patch Tuesday on November 13th. If you want to resolve the issue right away, Macrovision has released an updated driver.

Windows Vista users are not affected by this flaw.

I was reading some blogs and came across this serious vulnerability in the way Wordpress handles the blogroll posting by unregistered users. The “wp-admin/link.php” script does not check the permissions of the user before adding a new Blogroll link.

BlogSecurity has posted a fix already, so it is highly recommended to fix it before you start to get spam on your blog. to fix it you just have to change some lines of code inside wp-admin/link.php.

if ( ! current_user_can('manage_links') )
wp_die( __('You do not have sufficient permissions
to edit the links for this blog.') );

If you want, there is a fixed link.php file here. Just backup your current file and replace it with this one.

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