Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

I’m horrified at the rampant spread of malware and viruses that are hitting computers. That junk used to be a threat for people who visited “seedy” websites, or who opened up email attachments (which I don’t). Now, your computer can get a viruses or trojan just by VISITING an infected website. Disgusting! I found a [...]

Continuing my series on various anti-virus programs, here’s another I’ve found, newly released: VIPRE Antivirus Software. This one caught me by surprise; I hadn’t heard of it until the good folks at Sunbelt asked me to take a look at it. I’m familiar with Sunbelt programs, having the old Kerio/Sunbelt Firewall on one of my [...]

The folks at DownloadSoftwareHere.com (also know as Softry.com) wanted me to let you know about their new website offering tens of thousands of free software downloads to quickly find and download software you want. I’ve been puttering around the site quite a bit, testing out what they have to offer. A lot of the downloads [...]

Seriously, I don’t know why such things make headlines anymore. When Microsoft was king of the Internet, I’m sure it was relevant. But there are so many other good antivirus programs out there already. Still, Microsoft is Microsoft… Microsoft will soon unveil free anti-virus software Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is getting ready to unveil a long-anticipated [...]

Seriously, I don’t know why such things make headlines anymore. When Microsoft was king of the Internet, I’m sure it was relevant. But there are so many other good antivirus programs out there already. Still, Microsoft is Microsoft… Microsoft will soon unveil free anti-virus software Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is getting ready to unveil a long-anticipated [...]

Here’s a great site that has a terrific comparison table of the various antivirus software programs out there: AntiVirusWare.com. The comparison table gives a very readable breakdown of all the various features for the most popular antivirus programs, including Norton Antivirus, Kapersky, BitDefender, Avira, and more. I don’t know about you, but I like to [...]