Malicious software has become a real catastrophe for the majority of companies that make business on the development of programs and applications. It’s barely possible to avoid the attacks of intruders in spite of the incessant improvement of security systems. Statistics speak of thousands new viruses emerging every day which can damage the software and devices upon the whole. In this light, developers of antivirus systems take a permanent control over all emerging malicious applications and put records of all attacks incited by them.


The first quarter of 2012 was not an exception and was marked by the entrance of new viruses into the scene. Trend Micro Company which specializes in development of antivirus programs has published a regular listing of the most vulnerable software for the first quarter of the current year. Apple with ninety-one vulnerabilities heads the listing. It should be also underlined that Apple is the current leader in the quantity of patches released for …

A new set of customer repositories has been recently introduced by the Seagate, a global hard drive manufacturer. The new product offers an innovative approach towards file storage as well as a completely fresh technology of backup from the social networks. Seagate Backup Plus is called to ensure several operations at once: unpretentious installation, ‘single click’ backup activity and capability to store and publish the media content from Facebook and Flickr services.



Backup Plus is the first external hard drive that provides customers with the possibilities to store all content from social networks in one place, without the fear of file loss. This hard drive enables quick and efficient backup of photo copies and secures all quality standards without the minimal damages. The new set of repositories looks rather stylish and goes in blue, red, black and silver color gamut. It comes with USB 3.0 cable and is capable to work with other adapters such as Thunderbolt and …

The second generation of AMD A-Series hybrid processors, announced earlier in October, are already integrated in a number of graphics solutions. The newly appeared products are compatible with Socket FM2 only and cannot be applied for Socket FM1 infrastructure. This implies that a number of motherboards lose their upgrade facilities and can't be updated with a new advanced solution. Still, the market is currently ready to present a few boards destined to operate with the updated AMD A-Series. Gigabyte is one of the pioneers in this respect, introducing its motherboard GA-F2A85X-UP4, developed specifically for Socket FM2.



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Gigabyte GA-F2A85X-UP4 is designed in ATX form-factor with 305x244 mm PCB dimensions. AMD A85X chipset is a heart of the motherboard; it secures the compatibility with A-Series (second gen.) APU and Athlon CPUs in the implementation of Socket FM2. The overall TDP level claimed for the model is not more than 100W. The PCB allots four DIMM slots …