The Microsoft Safety Scanner is a free downloadable security tool that provides on-demand scanning and helps remove viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. It works with your existing antivirus software.

Note: The Microsoft Safety Scanner expires 10 days after being downloaded. To rerun a scan with the latest anti-malware definitions, download and run the Microsoft Safety Scanner again.

The Microsoft Safety Scanner is not a replacement for using an antivirus software program that provides ongoing protection.

For real-time protection that helps to guard your home or small business PCs against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software, I recommend Microsoft Security Essentials.

Download: Microsoft Safety Scanner

For those who wanted to wait for the official announcement from Mozilla, they have now added it to their download site.

As promised, Mozilla has released version 4.0 of its popular browser (on time) to its official download page after two Release Candidates found their way to testers earlier this month; And Mozilla will be hoping to top their previous Guinness World Record of 8,002,530 downloads within 24 hours for Firefox 3.0, which took place in June 2008. If your interested a current a real time counter can be viewed here.

Based on the Gecko 2.0 engine, Firefox 4 sports an all new user interface, new ways to organize tabs, a revamped add-on manager, support for HTML5 video standards, multitouch support on Windows 7 and a range of performance and security enhancements.

Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs released a statement claiming that Firefox 4 had been downloaded 7.1 million times in the first 24 hours

Source: Neowin

It’s here, as being reported across  the internet, Microsoft has posted the download links for Internet Explorer 9 (RTM). After nearly a year of waiting, the rollout began early today in the UK, and is currently available in 39 languages.

One point of interest, only users running Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7 will be able to download and install IE9. As previously announced, IE9 does not support Windows XP SP3.

IE9 downloaded 2.3 million times in the first 24 hours

Download IE9 here

Lately, I’ve noticed a trend while working on PC’s. After installing/upgrading to Internet Explorer 9 the e Icon on the start menu is showing up as a generic blank icon. Well, I finally looked into what was causing this and discovered that the reason it was “erased” was because IE9 installed into a new folder, overriding the old .exe file.

The solution ended up being quite simple:

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