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Comment Re:yet more biblical contradictions (Score 1, Insightful) 916

by josh609 on Thursday February 16, 2012 @11:14AM (#39060049) Attached to: Why People Don't Live Past 114

God never said he would die the moment he/she ate it(Genesis 2:17, Genesis 3:3). Death was something that didn't exist in the garden of Eden, before the fall of man. Sin and death came after they ate of the fruit in the garden. :)

Comment Re:yet more biblical contradictions (Score 2, Informative) 916

by josh609 on Thursday February 16, 2012 @10:44AM (#39059511) Attached to: Why People Don't Live Past 114

He did die........If he hadn't ate of that fruit it is believed he would have lived forever.

Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Released 175

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 19, 2010 @01:40PM from the if-you-must-use-windows dept.

Greg writes with this excerpt from Ars Techica: "Following a four-month beta program, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) 2.0 has been released. The new version significantly revamps the heuristic scanning engine, adds Windows Firewall integration as well as network traffic inspection. The update unquestionably makes MSE, which has already become very popular due to its quiet but effective ways, even more of a must-have for Windows users. MSE has always been very good at finding and removing malware, but it has relied mainly on antimalware definitions. The improved heuristic engine makes it even better at detecting threats; at the same time, we expect the number of false positives to slightly increase as well. The new Windows Firewall integration is a minor improvement: it lets you tweak Microsoft's firewall from inside MSE."

What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows? 896

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 18, 2010 @02:43PM from the is-clamav-no-longer-good? dept.

Techman83 writes "After years of changing between AVG Free + Avast, it's coming time to find a new free alternative for friends/relatives who run Windows. AVG and Avast have been quite good, but are starting to bloat out in size, and also becoming very misleading. Avast recently auto updated from 4.8 to 5 and now requires you to register (even for the free version) and both are making it harder to actually find the free version. Is this the end of reasonable free antivirus, or is there another product I can entrust to keep the 'my computer's doing weird things' calls to a minimum?"

Google To Pay $500 For Bugs Found In Chromium 175

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 29, 2010 @04:41PM from the rewards-for-being-1337 dept.

Trailrunner7 writes to mention that a new program from Google could pay security researchers $500 for every security bug found in Chromium. Of course if you find a particularly clever bug you could be eligible for a $1337 reward. "Today, we are introducing an experimental new incentive for external researchers to participate. We will be rewarding select interesting and original vulnerabilities reported to us by the security research community. For existing contributors to Chromium security — who would likely continue to contribute regardless — this may be seen as a token of our appreciation. In addition, we are hoping that the introduction of this program will encourage new individuals to participate in Chromium security. The more people involved in scrutinizing Chromium's code and behavior, the more secure our millions of users will be. Such a concept is not new; we'd like to give serious kudos to the folks at Mozilla for their long-running and successful vulnerability reward program."

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