The Software Corner

Well, it seems that over the past year or two, the amount of spam being sent has risen dramatically and numbers point to 90% spam rate.

I for one, cannot deny that most of my email is junk whether it be viagra or the latest body trimming drugs out there on the market.

At one point it used to be about 50-66% of messages were marked as spam and now with 90% of spam being sent out, whether it be through botnets or Trojans, ISPs will have to start enforcing stricter filtering techniques to save on bandwidth costs by millions of messages sent on a monthly basis.
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Popular music and video player WinAmp has been updated. Many changes have occurred since the previous version.

As expected there is a full version which includes many addon features that might appeal to media junkies and a lite version which has less features and uses less space.

A list of changes can be found in the following forum post and also provided are downlod links to the latest version.

Parallels workstation, a desktop program that allows users of Windows and Linux to run other operating systems at the same time as been updated.

Parallels, can have various guest operating systems whether it be DOS, Windows or other versions of Linux at the same time without having to dual boot or partition your hard drive to use other operating systems.

This version also improves the performance of Vista as a guest OS up to 200% and also you are now able to run Parallels on a computer running Windows Vista as a host operating system.

The trial version of Parallels is valid for 15 days and is available for users of Windows and Linux.

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Popular firewall program, Zone Alarm has recently released a beta version of their next security suite in Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite 7.0.

Kaspersky, has been awarded with being a top quality product finding a lot and sucessfully removing viruses, spyware and other malware. Version 6.0 of the Security suite has been ranked 6th best in PC World security tests.
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Visit: ZoneAlarm Internet Security Beta Page
Download: ZIS 7.0 Beta