Opera announced today that they have partnered with Haute Secure to include top-notch threat protection in their next-generation browser. A new snapshot of Opera 9.5 was posted yesterday that was bundled with a new theme, but the integration with Haute does not appear to be in place yet.

This partnership is good news for Opera because Haute already has add-ons available for both the

Several months ago the highly-respected AV-Test.org ran a test to rank various antivirus applications. In that test they had 30 rootkits that were tested on both Windows XP and Vista. On Windows XP none of the seven antivirus suites could detect all of the rootkits, and only four of the 14 anti-rootkit tools proved to be 100% successful. Those aren't very good odds.

On Vista the story

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Over in our forum Max noticed that it was possible to get a free version of WinRAR compliments of PC Welt (the German edition of PC World Magazine). It's been nearly two years since a free version of WinRAR was being handed out, and it's coming back around once again. This time, however, you don't get the absolutely latest version of the

Note: This deal is for United States residents only.

Now I'm not the biggest fan of McAfee software, but I know plenty of people who are running it because it's what came with their computer. Most of them have opted not to pay for subscription renewals because they don't believe that it is worth the money, which leaves them running

A few weeks back I finally broke down and bought the ESET Smart Security suite (review). I needed two licenses for it, and I decided to just buy the two-year subscription up front so that I could take advantage of the extra savings. In the end my total came out to $103.99, but it was worth it for two licenses and two years

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We recently wrote about the free firewall being offered by PC Tools, and they have yet another free security application for those of you who want all the protection you can get. It's called ThreatFire, and it runs alongside your existing antivirus software. With it your computer will be more able to detect malware before it has a chance to

ZoneAlarm decided to be generous today and offer their Anti-Spyware application at absolutely no cost for 24-hours. The program is only for Windows XP/2000, and it will rollback to the normal $19.95 price tag on November 14th at 7AM PST.

Here's why ZoneAlarm is doing this:

Every month, Microsoft® offers users patches to update Windows and Internet Explorer to help protect them