For those of us who currently have the personal edition of AVG 8.5 installed as our anti-virus program, you have most likely noticed AVG popup notifications strongly suggesting that one must upgrade to the paid-for version of AVG in order to maintain anti-virus protection. This is not the case. Though AVG certainly does make a good anti-virus product -- and one that is worth purchasing, in my opinion -- they do still offer their free personal edition, available for download here.

If, however, you would like to try something different that does not -- at least at this point -- produce such popups whenever a new version is released, you might give Microsoft's free Security Essentials anti-virus and anti-spyware software a try. Available for download here. If you go this route, make sure to uninstall any other anti-virus software from your system.

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In last week's podcast, I referred to a key appearing next to an email from ebay or Paypal as a way to show that it's truly from them since so many phishing attempts are made pretending to be from those sites. The link at the end of this post goes into greater detail about that feature.

New in Labs: The super-trustworthy, anti-phishing key

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If you use our webmail service (and if you don't, you should give it a try), there are several tips and tricks available to help manage your email more efficiently depending on how many emails you receive each day. Many of these tips require Labs to be enabled which you can find by clicking Settings when logged into webmail.

Become a Gmail Ninja

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This neat website is there to help you figure out who is calling you - if it is a warranty scammer or a political thing. The data is user-driven. Meaning, if you have some info that would be helpful to others, you can add it to their site.

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