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November, 2009

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I still like Avira

November 14th, 2009

Yesterday I wrote about how I had stumbled upon a virus through Java in Firefox and how Avira didn’t quite stop all the infections.
I also mentioned I didn’t blame Avira because I felt that it was a new strain, and it looks like I was right.
Yesterday when I scanned the infected file it wasn’t reporting [...]

Make Firefox More Secure, Disable Java

November 13th, 2009

No, not Javascript.  Java.
Despite similar names, Javascript and Java are 2 entirely different things.
Java, or Java applets are programs that can be embedded in to websites.  They are generally poorly written, and hardly ever function right.  Most people will probably never even need java, and in fact the only website I can think of that [...]

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