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For the past few months, I have been using Microsoft’s Security Essentials (MSE) as my anti-virus/anti-malware solution on all my Windows computers. I switched from another vendor after reading many reviews and looking at performance test results that said MSE was really good. Now this has been borne out by one more comparative test of anti-virus software from 20 different vendors.

Mozilla has announced that a couple of add-ons for Firefox have malware and have removed those from the add-on repository. The two add-ons were in the experimental section of the repository.

As a consulting company, we are always looking to add good tools to our toolbox. We got a demo of a tool that can look for sensitive data within your network. It is called Surveyor Enterprise from Spyglass Software. While it can be used for a lot of purposes, for us the attraction was due to fact that it can help us in PCI-DSS engagements.