Enter upstart file-scanning services like av-check.com and virtest.com, which bank on the guarantee that they won’t share your malware with the anti-virus community. For $1 per file scanned (or a $40 monthly membership) av-check.com will see if your file is detected by any of 22 anti-virus products, including AVAST, AVG, Avira, BitDefender, NOD32, F-Secure, Kaspersky, [...]

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TransMedia has made its Glide OS Extension for Internet Explorer available for download. TransMedia said in a Dec. 21 news release, “Glide effectively transforms the Microsoft Internet Explorer into a browser OS [operating system] with a complete application suite fully compatible with Microsoft Office and 20GB of free storage.” As part of its overall package, [...]

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Lithuania will tonight shut down its single Soviet-era nuclear power plant – a facility which supplies up to 80 per cent of the country’s electricity but must go as a condition of the country’s membership of the European Union. According to the BBC, the Ignalina plant in Visaginas opened 26 years ago, and critics of [...]

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It’s the end of 2009 and, according to some, the end of the first decade of the 21st century. Either way, it’s been an interesting 10 years, and even though the dot-com era is long behind us, the pace of technology keeps accelerating. With that in mind, eWEEK’s Eric Lundquist, who has been here for [...]

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The five, contracted to defend US diplomatic personnel, were accused of opening fire on a crowd in Baghdad. District Judge Ricardo Urbina said the US justice department had used evidence prosecutors were not supposed to have. The five had all pleaded not guilty to manslaughter. A sixth guard admitted killing at least one Iraqi. The [...]

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The ruling paves the way for Montana to become the third US state alongside Washington and Oregon to allow patients to seek the procedure. The decision comes a year after a lower court ruled it constitutional. Doctors will now be able to prescribe the necessary drugs to the terminally ill without fear of prosecution. The [...]

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Anatoly Perminov told the Voice of Russia radio service that the agency’s science council would hold a closed meeting to discuss the issue. Any eventual plan is likely to be an international collaboration, he said. The US space agency said in October that there is a one-in-250,000 chance of Apophis hitting Earth in 2036. That [...]

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I’m interrupting my scheduled series on reputation to bring you a public service message… This week on Security Levity, a reminder to beware of all kinds of phishing attack: not just bad guys pretending to be your bank. Over the past few days, our spamtraps have picked up a range of attempted phishing messages from [...]

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