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Microsoft Security Essentials 2 released – Your PC will thank you

If you haven’t yet installed Microsoft Security Essentials on your PC yet, now is the time.  Microsoft has released version 2 of their antivirus and malware protection software, and it’s probably the best solution out there for most people.  Even better is that it’s free. I’ve always hated antivirus software, because of the bloat it adds to the system.  Most commercial antivirus does a great job of delivering pop-ups for innocuous events, just to remind you that they’re still running, and to say “Hey, don’t you feel glad you bought me?”….

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Mozilla Firefox 3.6 available now

If you use Firefox, and haven’t yet got the update notification, verison 3.6 of the Mozilla Foundation’s popular web browser has been unleashed for Windows, Mac and Linux users.  Although freshly minted, in my limited testing it does seem snappier than earlier versions, though with my standard 15 tabs open, memory usage hardly seems addressed. From the Firefox blog: Below are some of the coolest features of Firefox 3.6: Personas: Personalize the look of your Firefox by selecting new themes called Personas in a single click and without a restart…

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