Many users of Avast anti-virus software appear to have had problems with their computers on December 2 and 3, not because of undetected viruses, but because an update to the Avast virus database caused Windows programs and system files to be flagged as viruses and quarantined or deleted.
The culprit is virus database update # 091203-0.
Mozilla Thunderbird, the free email client produced by the makers of the Firefox browser, has recently undergone some important revisions, and is now available as Thunderbird 3.0 RC1.
RC stands for Release Candidate, meaning that this version of Thunderbird 3 is designed for testing, and might still have a few bugs, so don’t install it in production environments.
I’ve been using Thunderbird 3 in its various Beta iterations for a while, and have now updated to RC1, and I believe that this latest version of the popular email client is a considerable improvement over its predecessors.
Most people with even a passing interest in technology will be familiar with the concept of the netbook.
Small, low-powered laptops designed for basic computing tasks like email, internet, and word processing, netbooks have enjoyed a dramatic growth in popularity over the past couple of years.
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