AVG Technologies, a leading provider of Internet security software, will tomorrow release AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0, the latest version of the company’s popular and widely-used free security software, which now incorporates protection against spyware through a new combined anti-virus and anti-spyware engine.

Hope the new version will still be as usable as the previous version.

Download : Free AVG Anti Virus Download Site

I believed this is a must tool for everybody. Who wants virus ? It is better be informed or be sorry .

I have copied some great information of Nanoscan in the about page

It’s an “instant” scanner that searches for viruses, spyware and other threats. It can detect, in less than a minute, a huge number of threats that could be running on your PC right now. Actually, don’t be surprised if it finds active viruses, spyware or Trojans on your PC, even if you have an updated antivirus.

Why does NanoScan detect so much?

1. Collection of data from the user community.

2. Automated data processing.

3. Knowledge shared across the user community.

It works with personalized homepages as NetVibes, iGoogle or PageFlakes .

Upon installation of Nanoscan in your personalized homepage, it will show up and then you need to press the logo as shown above and it will start installing a plugin.

I have tested this in Firefox and Iexplore 6 and it works fine in both platform. You can give your feedback to this feature in the comment section and let me know how it works for you. I captured the result as shown below

I hope you like this bit of information

Information source [ Nanoscan About Page ] & Activation link [ Nanoscan Activation Link ]

Below it the names of the virus reported.

First virus Nuwar.OL is downloaded on user PC from a website. The email sent with a headline “I Love You Soo Much” or “Inside My Heart” offers a link to this website. The page will open a Valentine’s eCard, but will also install the worm on user PC. The worm will send emails to contacts of the user and causes load on the network.

Second virus, Valentin.E infects the system if the user downloads a file with name friends4u. The common message header used for sending this virus is “Searching for True Love”.

You can check http://www.infectedornot.com for more details and check your system for any spyware.

Source [ topnews.in ]

“InstaCalc is a vision for a fast, simple and powerful calculator”

A sample on how to this is shown below.

Results appear as you type. Edit in real-time.

Easier than Excel

Use readable numbers and equations.

Painless Sharing

Save a link or embed in your webpage. Readers can see your thoughts, update the numbers, and link to the new results. No logins, no hassles.

Explore

Try charts, programming and more.

And here is the sample on embedding this feature on your blog. I have adopted the HTML version although you can also use JAva version.

and Example input might be as follows using Pythagorean Theorem:

Row 1 : X = 5

Row 2 : Y = 10

Row 3 : (x^2+y^2)^(1/2)

It should give you and answer of 11.18033988

You could provide any mathematical equation you like. Even it is 3,4,5 and so on variables. It is cool that is why it caught my attention, As an Engineer this kind of application is very useful.