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Microsoft Security Essentials Fails! Marks Firefox Uninstaller as Trojan.

Apparently Microsoft still doesn’t like Mozilla Firefox. Microsoft Security Essentials marks Mozila Firefox uninstaller as Trojan.

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Description: This program is dangerous and executes commands from an attacker.

Recommendation: Remove this software immediately.

Microsoft Security Essentials detected programs that may compromise your privacy or damage your computer. You can still access the files that these programs use without removing them (not recommended). To access these files, select the ‘Allow’ action and click ‘Apply actions’. If this option is not available, log on as administrator or ask the local administrator for help.

Category: Trojan

Get more information about this item online.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?name=Trojan%3aWin32%2fComame&threatid=2147624660

What is really going on there?

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Firefox 3.5.2, Firefox 3.0.13 and GarageBand 5.1.

New updates for Firefox and GarageBand.

Firefox 3.5

FireFox 3.5.2 and Firefox 3.0.13 are released to address some security issues.

For a list of changes and more information, please review the Firefox 3.5.2 Release Notes and the Firefox 3.0.13 Release Notes.

Must update now……

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GarageBand App

Apple releases GarageBand 5.1 update to address several issues:

GarageBand 5.1 | 139.29MB

This update addresses general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and fixes a number of other minor issues. The issues addressed include:

  • GarageBand track effects and Audio Units can now be added to a guitar track
  • Improved support for Apogee audio interfaces
  • Faster switching to full screen in Magic GarageBand
  • Improved access to audio monitoring settings

This update is recommended for all users of GarageBand ’09

GarageBand ’09 is a part of iLife ’09 suite that requires Mac OS X Leopard.

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Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is in, Shiretoko is out

Release date: December 8th, 2008

Mozilla.org has officially dropped “Shiretoko” as name for Firefox 3.1 Beta 2.

See the new Robot here.

The good folks at Mozilla.org has just released Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 2. Don’t worry because Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is still free (seriously, has anyone paid for Firefox upgrade/updates?)

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Mozilla Firefox is available for Linux Mac and Windows.

New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:

  • This beta is now available in 54 languages – get your local version and let us know if it looks right.
  • A new Private Browsing Mode that allows you to browse without Firefox storing any traces of where you’ve been – perfect for online holiday shopping!
  • New functions that make it easy to remove the history of your past few hours of browsing, or remove all traces of a website.
  • New support for web worker threads.
  • The new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine is now on by default for web content.
  • Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
  • Removed the new tab-switching & preview behavior based on feedback from Beta 1 users
  • Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications.

Get Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 from:

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