Vista Nags, Banner Ads, YaHoo! AntiSpam, Ad-Aware SE

The first Monday in 2008 brings us some good reads in the forums.

Got Vista? Then read about stopping those annoying balloon alerts about start up programs. I know this was annoying when I was using Vista....all of 3 minutes at least.

It seems there is a never ending stream of banner ads running on sites everywhere. I ought to just make a 'sticky' post for them already.

Users of YaHoo! based webmail have a new spam defense system which was just rolled out. That's always good news. Die spammers!!

Lastly there may be a reprieve for users of the old Ad-Aware SE. You just might be able to keep using it. But so far we have no idea how long. we'll keep you abreast of things tho.

Busy Day!!

Wow...busy day already.

We have two 'Emerging Security Threats' to post about today. One in Real Player and the other a flash player problem.

Then we have what Kaspersky is calling Diehard virus variants making their top ten list for December and Sunbelt finds a a trojan which requires a phone call to activate a license.

In the Spam\Phish forum we find that users of Facebook are being phished with fake account that is live.

Finally those of you using Ad-Aware SE must upgrade to Ad-Aware 2007 as SE will no longer be supported

Ad-Aware 2007: Vista Ready

Lavasoft has finally come out with a Vista capable version of Ad-Aware.
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Ad-Aware 2007 Released...But Troubled

Lavasoft released their new version of Ad-Aware yesterday, Ad-AWare 2007, after much beta testing. Well, I guess it wasn't quite enough. Several users have complained about glitches, system crashes and Vista incompatibility too.

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