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Want to know what the most used Windows applications are, based on a real-time survey of 75,000 software tracked volunteers? 

AVG reckons on any given day around the world something like two million web pages are poisoned by hidden threats, and the security firm has just released a free link scanner download which it says will protect Internet users against these “random, invisible online threats”.

If you want to keep the spambots out of Gmail then you might want to try a bit of upside down thinking.

Security warnings about the impending Conficker worm attacks on computers around the globe have been with us for a while now, and as iTWire reported just a few days ago, while the predicted apocalypse didn’t engulf the world after all, the worm’s still out there.  But, be warned, we’re now in the midst of a new security threat of large-scale proportions, according to Kapersky!

Social network Twitter is growing in leaps and bounds with thousands of new tweeters singing up every day, and now many large businesses have jumped on the social networking bandwagon, reportedly starting to use Twitter as a key tool in their customer service inventory.

Telstra’s launch of its T-Suite retail platform aimed at SMBs has been described as a ‘carefully measured step forward on SaaS’, but one which may present small to medium sized businesses with a real dilemma.

The Australian Catholic University (ACU) has deployed Microsoft’s web-hosted email platform, Live@edu, the second Australian university to do so in recent weeks.

A flood of spam has infiltrated the Twitter microblogging community, with new Twitter scams ‘popping up right left and centre’ according to F-Secure, which says it discovered a fake Twitter account that tricks users into a Google scam by promising a free Range Rover.