Microsoft to Expand Free Security to (Very) Small Businesses

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Microsoft is making their very good Security Essentials software available to small businesses with 10 or fewer PCs.  Its pretty good antivirus antimalware software and you can't beat the price!  I run it on all my home PCs and recommend it to friends.  If you run a small business its worth taking a look at.

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Windows Shortcut Exploit Protection Tool

This is a tool that will protect you from the recently discovered Windows shortcut problem, where the shortcut file can be modified to run malicious code on your system. This affects ALL versions of windows, old and new. There is currently no real fix for this (other than disabling all/most of your icons on your computer so they just show up as white squares) and there are confirmed attacks out there using this issue today. This tool is a clean install/uninstall so when Microsoft does fix the issue you can uninstall this tool.

The tool basically checks links in shortcuts before it is passed on to the operating system and prevents the malicious code from executing if it exists. You can read more details about the tool at the Sophos site and you can read more about the exploit on Security Now! Episode #258

PSI - Software Security Scanner

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This software by security firm Secunia, and recommended by security professional Steve Gibson, from GRC.com, is FREE for home use.  The software looks at your installed software and will notify you of old, vulnerable software so that you can patch it or remove it if you don't use it any longer.  Just one more tool in the toolbox for protecting your self from bad software and/or identity theft.

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