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Security Essentials is designed to be bottom of the antivirus rankings
Microsoft: Security Essentials is designed to be bottom of the antivirus rankings
Now, Microsoft has said it sees Security Essentials as merely the first layer of protection, advising customers to use additional, third-party antivirus – although the company stressed that wasn’t because the product wasn’t good enough to stand on its own.
CCleaner 4.06
CCleaner v4.06 is out. “improved some of the cleaning actions for Firefox and Internet Explorer”
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***Pay attention during install. May attempt to install unwanted programs.
Google Chrome Updated
Chrome updated.
Download or update from within the program.
Chrome has been updated to 29.0.1547.76 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This release includes the following fixes:
[288935] Flash Player does not work in Metro mode
[278370] Unable to submit client certificates over TLS 1.2 from Windows
[278940] Canvas loses ability to render, is blank even if page reloaded
Other stability improvements
Source: The Google Chrome Blog
Thunderbird 24
Pass the word, it’s Thunderbird (24).
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openSuse users – T-bird 24 is available in the Mozilla repo.
Firefox 24.0
Firefox 24.0 has been officially released.
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Firefox 24 for Android is now available in the Play store.
openSUSE users – Firefox 24 is available in the Mozilla repo.
Adobe Flash Player for Internet Explorer Updated
Earlier this week Adobe updated flash for IE to version 11.8.800.168.
There were a few bugs and version 11.8.800.174 fixes them.
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Java Updated
Java has been updated version 7u40 (1.7.0_40-b43). Security update.
Release Notes
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Jave 7 Runtime (this is most people will use).
Java 7 JDK
Java has proved to be horribly insecure. I have removed it from all my computers and no longer use programs that require it.
See:
Java Security at Wikipedia
Ed Bott – A close look at how Oracle installs deceptive software with Java updates
Google “java security” for more.
Adobe Flash, Reader, And Shockwave Updated
Security updates for Adobe Flash, Reader, and Shockwave are available today.
APSB13-21 Security updates available for Adobe Flash Player
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APSB13-22 Security updates available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat
Download Adobe Reader or update from within the program (Help > Check for updates).
APSB13-23 Security update available for Adobe Shockwave Player
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