Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0.21.329 released

Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0.21.329 has been released.

See below release notes from Comodo web site:

* FIXED! CFP.exe could be terminated using EndTask API
* FIXED! When the firewall alerts were disabled, all the traffic was blocked.

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Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13 released

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13 has been released.

This update fixes 2 critical, 2 high and 1 moderate vulnerabilities.

For more info about fixed vulnerabilities, see here

See release notes and download Firefox 2.0.0.13 here

Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0.20.320 released

Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0.20.320 has been released.

See below release notes from Comodo web site:

* FIXED! Slow network performance under certain circumstances

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Vista SP1 released

Vista SP1 has been released. Languages available are English, French, Japanese, Spanish and German.

This service pack includes eg. faster file handling and better power management.

This update is a bit controversial as it both increases and decreases security program compatibility.

Chances are that you don't get it yet from Windows Update; see here for reasons.

Read more about SP1:

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Vulnerabilities in archive formats

University of Oulu in Finland has researched vulnerabilities in certain archive formats.

These formats are ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, LHA, RAR, TAR, ZIP and ZOO.

Vulnerabilities can cause buffer overflow or even Denial-of-Service (DoS) against some server.

This problem is quite wide-ranged as archives are used eg. in backups, office programs and in different operating systems. List of vulnerable programs can be found
from link below.

Read more here

Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0.19.318 released

Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0.19.318 has been released.

See release notes below from Comodo site:

* FIXED! Bugs in D+ affecting CFP's ability to handle some events properly
* FIXED! CFP freezes the computer in certain cases of network traffic
* FIXED! CFP GUI slows down when some other software is installed
* FIXED! CFP GUI fails to start when resource extraction fails
* IMPROVED! The default configuration has been updated to protect more resources

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On-demand AV-comparative test for February 2008 released

On-demand comparative test for February 2008 was released yesterday in AV-comparatives.org

The following products were used with their best possible settings:

avast! Professional Edition 4.7
AVG Anti-Malware 7.5
AVIRA AntiVir Personal Edition Premium 7.06
BitDefender Professional Plus 2008 11.0
eScan Anti-Virus 9.0
ESET NOD32 Anti-Virus 3.0
F-Secure Anti-Virus 2008 8.0
G DATA AntiVirusKit (AVK) 2008 18.0
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.1
McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008 12.0
Microsoft OneCare 2.0
Norman SS Antivirus & Anti-Spyware 7.0
Sophos Anti-Virus 7.0
Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 2008 15.0
TrustPort Antivirus Workstation 2.8.0
VBA32 Scanner for Windows 3.12.6

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March Microsoft Updates come out tomorrow

Monthly Microsoft Updates will be published tomorrow.

Those updates include four critical updates concerning Office and Outlook.

Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool will be updated as usual, too.

Read more here

Pimp your Vista

Vista has a lot of stuff by default but can used with some of them disabled.

Blackviper has a nice guide for reducing unneeded services.

If you want to make your own custom and lightweight Vista installation DVD, vLite does the job.

Some of the vLite users have reported that size of the Vista could be reduced up to 25 % of default.

Crackers attack Facebook and MySpace

Fortify Software security company says that social web sites like MySpace and Facebook are at the moment best targets for crackers. Main reason is that sites are also for less advanced users who can easily click a bad link.

- Buffer overrun in Aurigma ActiveX picture upload software gives attacker a chance to get to uploaders computers, says Rob Rachwald from Fortify.

This software is used in both Facebook and MySpace.

Buffer overrun exploiting tool is easily available in web and can be used without a great technical knowledge.

That's why Rachwald states that MySpace and Facebook should have made Aurigma to check program code before they started to use it.

Source: vnunet

SpywareBlaster 4.0 released

SpywareBlaster 4.0 has been released.

What's new :

- Full Vista support
- Protection for Netscape
- Protection for Seamonkey
- Protection for Flock
- A brand-new user interface
- Various feature and protection enhancements
- Further optimizations to every part of the program
- And lots of other bug fixes and requested tweaks

Read more here