I reviewed the Nirsoft application Recent Files View yesterday which brought two possible privacy leaks to my attention. Windows is keeping a record of files that have been previously opened, to be precise of the 15 most recent files that have been opened and stores them as shortcuts in the hidden folder Recent [My Recent [...]

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Recent Files View is another excellent software developed by one of my favorite developers Nirsoft. I discovered this application by chance at the Freeware Genius blog and immediately saw the benefits of using the application. Let me tell you what it does. Recent Files View lists the most recent files that have been accessed on [...]

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We all have files on our system that are valuable to us and that we do not want to lose. This could be everything from Word documents to images or mp3 files. But there is still the chance that those files do get deleted, either by chance, by another user or by malicious software. The [...]

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You might remember that I’m not a huge fan of antivirus software and have none installed on my computer. While some call this foolish it does make sense for me. I did use Antivir for some time to check it out and see what it can do and think it is a fine piece of security software. What bothered me a lot were the update windows and daily scheduled scans that would pop up in inappropriate moments.

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Torrentfreak are reporting that two vulnerabilities have been discovered in VLC Player which allow execution of arbitrary code. The second vulnerability has already been fixed in the newest version of VLC which is available for download on the developers homepage. The first vulnerability however can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows when loading subtitles [...]

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