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Protect Privacy in Google Search – GoogleSharing Firefox Addon

Tech News Google is the undisputed leader of present day web technologies. With some of the most popular, useful and free web services like Google Search, GMail, Feedburner, Orkut, YouTube etc. under its belt, it collects an astonishing amount of personal data about you and your preferences. It is sometime chilling for any security enthusiast, just to [...] Read More »

Free Download Promotion – DefenseWall HIPS from SoftSphere

Software JumpStart: Go to the promotion page at GizMo’s to get the full featured free download of DefenseWall HIPS from SoftSphere. SoftSphere, the makers of the highly regarded DefenseWall HIPS are offering a free copy of DefenseWall exclusively to Gizmo’s Freeware readers. The offer is available for a three day period starting from 2.00 PM Pacific [...] Read More »

Twitter, Facebook DDoS Attacks Were Politically Motivated

Social Media We have already carried news about how the popular social networking site Twitter and Facebook were pulled down with a concerted DDoS attack and how Google, Facebook & Twitter were jointly investigating the reasons behind this DDoS Attack. Read More »

Malware Link Blocking Finally Arrives at Twitter

a known malware site

Social Media The 140 character microblogging platform Twitter is gaining popularity by each passing day. Geek or no-geek, everybody seems to be hooked up to Twitter, which looks like a good-for-no-use application when it was started. Read More »

Are Free Antivirus Software Equally Good as Paid Antivirus

Software There has always been a heated debate between the advocates of Free Antivirus Software and the promoters of Paid security software products. The first category of people try to criticize the security software companies like Symantec and McAfee for charging the computer users for something which is freely available from developers like Avira and AVG totally free of cost. Read More »