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[Lisandro]

RoboForm 6.9.94 has been released.
For more details, visit: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/RoboForm/1014298205/1

[Alan Baxter]

2009-04-08
Spybot-S&D updates are available through its updater.

[Lisandro]

Fresh Diagnose 8.04 has been released.
For more details, visit: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Fresh-Diagnose/1006930501/1

WinPatrol 16.0.2009.1  has been released.
For more details, visit: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/WinPatrol/1110261695/1

[YoKenny]

WinPatrol 16.0.2009.1  has been released.
For more details, visit: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/WinPatrol/1110261695/1

WinPatrol 2009: What's New

16.0.2009.1

Changes only affect Vista and Windows 7 users
• Improved HOSTs change detection in Vista
• Fixed Exit dialog (if checked) when switching to UAC mode.
• Remove redunant switching to UAC mode dialog. All versions
• AutoUpdate and UAC change detected included in Option with HOST file changes
http://www.winpatrol.com/upgrade.html

[bob3160]

woops....

[.: L' arc :.]

-= Just downloaded the latest of Malwarebytes and.. I gave me feeling like its a "rogue" one when I first saw the change in the font used for the header.. But, its ok.. I'll get used to it.

-= By the way, BumpTop is out of beta..
http://download.cnet.com/BumpTop/3000-2072_4-10912219.html

[Omid Farhang]

Songbird 1.1.2

Official Site: http://www.songbirdnest.com/
Download: http://www.filehippo.com/download_songbird/

Change Log:
All Platforms

* Dialogs text cropped when OS is using big fonts ( bug 5583)
* Window min/max sizing does not respect DPI ( bug 6956)
* [iPod] Album Artwork switched to wrong music ( bug 7780)
* [metadata-writing] Unable to write metadata to .m4a files ( bug 8812)
* [ipod] 1st Gen iPod shuffle not mounting in Songbird ( bug 10432)
* [key] Spacebar to play after contextual menu Pause not working ( bug 12937)
* Intermittent. Paused tracks inconsistently increase playcount ( bug 13615)
* [gstreamer] Restarting MP3 by dragging progress slider to the start outputs silence for a while ( bug 15425)
* [watchfolders] Can get duplicate songs after renaming watch folder in new path ( bug 15538)
* 7digital Music Store
o Add Track/Add Album buttons should change UI on selection ( bug 15361)


Windows Specific

* [mtp] Cannot playback media items on MTP device from within Songbird app ( bug 8068)
* Some songs display as 0:00 ( bug 9145)
* [mtp] [dups] Same files can be added twice to a device if 2 PCs are used ( bug 9803)

[Omid Farhang]

Google Chrome 2.0.173.1 Beta

Official Site: http://www.google.com/chrome
Download: http://www.filehippo.com/download_google_chrome/

Change Log:
Notable Changes:

* Fixed a plugin crash related to FoxIt reader. (Issue: 9539)
* V8 proxy resolver support is now enabled by default, and is no longer behind a flag. (Issues: 2764, 74)
* Added a localizable font family and font size for rendered web content. This allows Chrome to display larger characters for certain international font families (e.g. Malayalam and Bengali). (Issue: 7319)
* Fixed a crash which occured when canceling a save page operation. (Issue: 9738)


Last Week's Known Issues Fixed:

* Cannot drag bookmarks on then New Tab page (Issue 9674).

[Omid Farhang]

VirtualBox 2.2.0

Offical Site: http://www.virtualbox.org/
Download: http://www.filehippo.com/download_virtualbox/

Change Log:
This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

* OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see chapter 3.8, Importing and exporting virtual machines, User Manual page 55)
* Host-only networking mode (see chapter 6.7, Host-only networking, User Manual page 88)
* Hypervisor optimizations with signi?cant performance gains for high context switching rates
* Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB
* VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines
* USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)
* Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
* Shared folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests
* OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), User Manual page 70)
* Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services

In addition, the following items were ?xed and/or added:

* VMM: FreeBSD guest related ?x for V86 ?ags (bug #2342)
* VMM: ?xed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342)
* VMM: ?xed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431)
* VMM: ?xed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only)
* VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization
* VMM: ?xed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only)
* VMM: signi?cant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only)
* VMM: real-mode IOPL ?x for DOS guests (VT-x only)
* VMM: ?xed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x, but don’t set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL
* VMM: ?xed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794)
* VMM: properly emulate RDMSR from the TSC MSR, should ?x some NetBSD guests
* VMM: emulate RDPMC; ?xes Windows guests crashes when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778)
* NAT: ?xed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)
* NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)
* NAT: allow to con?gure the next server and the boot ?le via VBoxManage (bug #2759)
* IDE: ?xed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)
* Hard disk: support more VMDK ?le variants (including ?xed-size ESX server images)
* Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not writable
* USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and EHCI; the “VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Con?g/FrameRate” CFG key is no longer necessary and no longer supported
* USB: ?xed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices (Windows hosts only; bug #1654)
* E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)
* VRDP: ?xed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime
* Shared folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris hosts when creating ?les
* X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)
* X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug #2306)
* Linux additions: ?xed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6 (bug #3555)
* Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the guest additions installer (bug #3524)
* Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys ?lter driver to the correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)
* Windows hosts: ?xed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host interface (bug #3414)
* Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading the vboxnet?t module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)
* Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh (bug #3586)
* Linux installers: ?xes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux from Scratch systems
* Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains both (32- and 64-bit) architectures.
* VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages
* VBoxManage list vms commands now default to compact format
* VBoxManage controlvm dvdattach did not work if the image was attached before
* VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants
* VBoxManage showvminfo: don’t spam the release log if the additions don’t support statistics information (bug #3457)
* VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the next major release, so switch to the new options now
* Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff ?le at VM startup (related to bug #2772)
* GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs
* GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest
* GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V
* GUI: removed ?oppy icon from the status bar
* GUI: show build revision in about dialog
* GUI: ?xed sticky status bar text
* GUI: improved error dialogs
* GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot a read-only disk image (bug #1745)
* GUI/Mac OS X: ?xed disabled close button
* GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0 regression; bug #2065)
* 3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)
* 3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)
* 3D support: ?xed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)
* PXE: ?xed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug #2536)
* LsiLogic: ?xed problems with Solaris guests
* Main API: close machine settings XML ?le when unregistering machine (bug #3548)

[Omid Farhang]

SeaMonkey 1.1.16

Official Site: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey
Download: http://www.filehippo.com/download_seamonkey/

Change Log:
* Security and stability fixes
__________________________________________________________
PDFCreator 0.9.8

Official Site: http://www.pdfforge.org/
Download: http://www.filehippo.com/download_pdfcreator/

Change Log:
Improvements:
- Uses GPL-Ghostscript 8.64 now.
- Improved PDF/A compatibility.
- New output format SVG (experimental)
- Improved check for updates on PDFCreator.
- Improved COM interface.

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed some minor bugs.

[Alan Baxter]

SpywareBlaster version 4.2 is available.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbupdate.html

[YoKenny]

SpywareBlaster version 4.2 is available.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbupdate.html

Upgrade Instructions
It is recommended that you uninstall your current version of SpywareBlaster before installing the new version. To do this:

1. Open SpywareBlaster and press the "Disable All Protection" link under "Quick Tasks".
2. Close SpywareBlaster.
3. Go to Add/Remove Programs and uninstall the entry named "SpywareBlaster 4.1"
4. Download the latest SpywareBlaster installer from the link above and run it.
5. Enjoy the new version of SpywareBlaster!

With Vista go to Control Panel then Programs and Features and uninstall entry named "SpywareBlaster 4.1"

New in this version:
-Windows 7 support
-Internet Explorer 8 support
-K-Meleon support
-Faster, secure updating worldwide
-Automatic program version upgrade support (for AutoUpdate users)
-Numerous bug fixes, tweaks, and optimizations

Note: It is best to "Disable All Protection" before updating to IE8 then download IE8 install routine then install it then "Enable All Protection":
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/worldwide-sites.aspx

[Confused Computer User]

Note: It is best to "Disable All Protection" before updating to IE8 then download IE8 install routine then install it then "Enable All Protection":
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/worldwide-sites.aspx

Shouldn't Microsoft update IE automatically?

Is it wiser to stick a bit longer with IE 7 or should we switch to IE8?

[Lisandro]

Is it wiser to stick a bit longer with IE 7 or should we switch to IE8?

Make a full backup of your computer before that. It worked for me on Vista but fail miserably on one of my XP computers...

[YoKenny]

Shouldn't Microsoft update IE automatically?

Is it wiser to stick a bit longer with IE 7 or should we switch to IE8?

Make a full backup of your computer before that. It worked for me on Vista but fail miserably on one of my XP computers...

I think that IE8 has to be installed manually just like IE7 had to be installed if you were running IE6.

A full backup is a good idea but I was lucky as both of my XP systems updated OK but I reviewed problem reports about updating to IE8 before I attempted it and found that IE-SPYAD and SpywareBlaster's protection had to be removed plus Spybot S&D's Immunize had to be undone and on the XP Pro system I had to disable Avira AntiVir's protection. 

The XP Pro system took the longest as Avira AntiVir had an update to V9 at the same time which lead to a bit of confusion.