Interesting Software and System News

[SpeedyPC]

Dell offers to fix laptops that smell like cat pee
http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/computers/dell-offers-to-fix-laptops-that-smell-like-cat-pee-20131101-2wo79.html

[Lisandro]

The failure of Digital signatures model?
McAfee’s Q3 Threat Report shows more than 1.5 million samples of Android malware, nearly 8% of the total, were signed using a digital signature.

Mac OS X targed
The amount of malware aimed at computers running Mac OS X grew at the same rate as the previous quarter, with only about 300 new threats detected in Q3.

http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/android-increasingly-vulnerable-malware-133094

[timcan]

Sandboxie  under new ownership 

http://www.invincea.com/2013/12/invincea-announces-acquisition-of-sandboxie/

[CIACIACIACIACIACIA]

I have downloaded Recuva from Piriform. I tried to run it in administrator mode and the program exits quickly. I observed that at the top of the install window there was a DeepScreen indication stating that
this program is suspicious and having a checkmark indication. I went to the Avast's options and unchecked
the DeepScreen feature. I runned it again (with a clean cache) and the program exited. Can you tell me
if Avast have a compatibility problem with this program?

[bob3160]

I have downloaded Recuva from Piriform. I tried to run it in administrator mode and the program exits quickly. I observed that at the top of the install window there was a DeepScreen indication stating that
this program is suspicious and having a checkmark indication. I went to the Avast's options and unchecked
the DeepScreen feature. I runned it again (with a clean cache) and the program exited. Can you tell me
if Avast have a compatibility problem with this program?

Please start your own topic. Thanks

[bob3160]

Another service coming to an end. 


Opera has announce that it's "My Opera" service will end on 3/1/2014
Ironically, the closure happens on my 54th wedding anniversary.
I guess I should rejoice that it's only a web service that's ending..... 

[bob3160]

New Chrome Web Store extension rules may mean the end for toolbars


The Google Policy Page:
https://developers.google.com/chrome/web-store/program_policies

[Pondus]

Sony SD card With backup
http://www.sony.net/Products/memorycard/en_us/backupsd/index.html

[bob3160]

A Holiday Browser Performance Test compliments of Microsoft.
(Turn your volume up!) Merry Christmas!

[Dch48]

A Holiday Browser Performance Test compliments of Microsoft.
(Turn your volume up!) Merry Christmas!

Using the Comodo Dragon browser which is a modified version of Chrome 30 the test takes 53.95 seconds and there is no sound at all. Using Internet Explorer 11, the test takes a mere 5.38 seconds and there is full sound throughout.

[Cast]

For Comodo Dragon with extensions it took 70 seconds without took almost twice as long though I dont know why. In IE 11 it took 10 seconds.

[DavidR]

Well this seems more of a promotion for IE11 and windows 8.1, but the benchmark for firefox 26.0 was 10.59 sec. And the music drives you bonkers.

[bob3160]

Well this seems more of a promotion for IE11 and windows 8.1, but the benchmark for firefox 26.0 was 10.59 sec. And the music drives you bonkers.

I couldn't run the test in IE at all. The button to click for starting the test was non responsive and never did anything.
In Firefox, I got a message that this browser wasn't compatible and I should install IE 11.
In Opera, the sound didn't work.
I have to agree with David, another MS promotion which in my case backfired....

[AdrianH]

Win8.1, IE11 2.12 seconds with sound.

Opera 12.16   23.57 seconds no sound.

Chrome31 ,   33.99 seconds stuttering graphics and sound ......... turn off avast and it flies through perfectly !

Avast is still messing up Chrome browser.

[CraigB]

I got a 2.10 with sound in IE11 on 8.1