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Browsing Posts published in November, 2008

As I noted before, I installed Intrepid Ibex for my wife over the weekend. In the process of re-configuring her interface I installed the WOT addon for Firefox.

Ever wanted to know if a site is a potential mallware installed waiting to infect your computer? Web of Trust will inform you, even before you click on the link.

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Flashplayer 10 now on 64bit Linux

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For those of you who don’t know already, Adobe released an Alpha of Flash 10 for 64bit Linux. Interestingly there are not Windows or Apple versions available yet.

Read more here.

I find the decision to release it before the MacOS or Windows versions very interesting to say the least.

Today I had the opportunity to install Intrepid Ibex on two machines. A high end monster with a 47″ HD monitor and our mid-to-bottom range pc in the bedroom

This is not an in depth review – these are my impressions after configuring and fooling around for a bit.

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So as per my previous post I decided to install antivirus for Linux. My inner geek awakened I decided to Google and see what other options are available besides ClamAV

(For those of you who read this before – I updated the ClamAV section)

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According to Kaspersky Labs – I am vulnerable. They claim that Linux, BSD and MacOS boxes are open for attack via malicious code.

And I got paranoid.

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