avast! EasyPass - new product from avast!

avast! company is most well-known for its antivirus. You probably have been using avast! antivirus for quite a long time. Indeed, most people know that avast! has provided the world with security and antivirus products.

Recently, it has launched a new product called avast! EasyPass, a password manager which helps you to manage your multiple passwords on different sites. If you have lots of passwords to remember, then this EasyPass program will do the work for you. What you need is just to remember the master password, which is the main password to open all passwords. All your passwords are securely encrypted.

avast! EasyPass will help you generate strong security passwords which is safe to use, unlike password with your kids' birthday which people could probably guess easily. Once this product is installed, you can access it anywhere on any computer or laptop. No more hassle filling out forms is also another feature of this product. Come on, get this product now at $9.99 on avast! website.

Help AVAST cast your vote

If you use AVAST as your antivirus and you use Firefox as your browser, then you can help AVAST to rate a website by giving your vote for the website you visit. You'll see a small rating icon next to Forward button in Firefox. Clicking the small icon will give you chance to rate the website currently viewed. Click on the categories provided to cast your vote, then click Vote. In this way, you are helping AVAST in rating a website. There are 10 categories you can choose from: Shopping, Social/Hobby, News/Blog, IT/Download, Corporate, Pornography, Weapons/Violence, Gambling, Alcohol/Drugs and Warez/Illegal.

Caution against downloaded files

Here are two things to remember when you want to download a new program or an add-on for your browser.

First, be careful when downloading.
Make sure your antivirus is working and updated. It's really easy to be infected by virus when you have no antivirus installed, if possible use more than one antivirus. I myself use two: avira antivir and avast antivirus (As long as your computer doesn't hang after installing the second antivirus, I think it's still ok). Installing two antivirus running together also means higher protection against viruses because both antivirus probably have different virus database.

Second, be careful after downloading.
Scan your downloaded files after download is also a protection against virus. Or perhaps you want to let your antivirus detect the virus when it appears. This is still ok. If it's possible to clean or the virus, take this action first. Otherwise, move it to quarantine.

This article is posted after I downloaded a file from:
http://cursormania.smileycentral.com/download/firefox_install.jhtml
You can also try downloading it as experience. But try it at your own risk.

After downloading, I ran the setup, but during installation, my antivir pop up and said that it detected a virus. See, how useful it is to have two antivirus installed because when one antivirus cannot detect, perhaps another can. And most of all, antivirus with up-to-date database is more important than many antivirus but with outdated database.