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AVG names critical Windows file as a Trojan

by Jodie Andrefski on Nov 11, 2008 at 07:20 PM

Many users of AVG 7.5 and AVG 8 were stuck with Windows systems that didn’t operate after the AVG security scanner software mistakenly identified a necessary Windows component as a Trojan virus.  The file user32.dll was tagged incorrectly as a banking Trojan after a signature update on Sunday.  The AVG… Continue Reading »

Tikitag RFID system (or CueCat 2008)

by Iyaz Akhtar on Oct 3, 2008 at 12:18 PM

Have you heard of Tikitag?  I first saw it at ShowStoppers in NYC and it officially launched on the 1st of October.  No, it has nothing to do with tikis. It’s a RFID system.  You get RFID stickers, you put them on stuff, and then you place the tag near… Continue Reading »

Lenovo’s P960 mobile phone with built-in fingerprint scanning security

by Robert Nelson on Aug 16, 2008 at 10:32 AM

Lenovo has recently announced their latest mobile phone; the P960. Overall this is really a fairly basic model, but it does have one really cool feature that we have yet to see on a wide variety of mobile phones; fingerprint biometrics security. In this case the fingerprint security is handled… Continue Reading »

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