Is the security software built into Windows 7 good enough or not?

Happy Friday! Indeed it's a great Friday--no rain forecast for the weekend, the sky is blue, and the sun is smiling. I can't ask for a better spring day, and I hope the same goes for you. Now moving on to this week's topic, member Ron G., has asked us for help understanding the differences between viruses and spyware/adware. Many members have defined it for him, but Ron's bigger question was if the security software built into Windows 7 is actually good enough to protect him from the nasty elements of cyberspace.

Well, Ron, many of your fellow members chimed in and offered many great recommendations and opinions. However, the question from many folks was why would Microsoft tell you that there is no need to have any other security protection because their built-in security system in Windows 7 surpasses everything else, when in actuality Windows 7 only comes with MS Defender (their antispyware protection) and firewall, but no antivirus of any sort? Without an antivirus program,

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MySQL New Product Releases

- Article: Introduction to MySQL 5.5 (Performance and Scalability Improvements)
- White Paper: MySQL Connector for Java
- White Paper: MySQL Cluster Manager
- MySQL ISV/OEM Customer Survey: Tell Us What You Want!
- Case Study: MySQL Enterprise powers SaaS ERP for Italian local and central authorities
- Live Webinar: MySQL Performance Tuning Best Practices (Thursday, April 22)
- Live Webinar: Introducing MySQL Cluster 7.1 (Thursday, April 29)

New Product Releases

- New Release of MySQL Server 5.5.3-m3 (Beta)
- New Release of MySQL Server 5.5.4-m3 (Beta)
- New Release of MySQL Server 5.1.45 (GA)
- New Release of MySQL Cluster 7.1 (GA)
- New Release of MySQL Workbench 5.2.18 (Beta)

Hints & Tips

- Documentation: InnoDB 1.1 for MySQL 5.5 User's Guide
- White Paper: Securing MySQL Embedded Server on Windows
- PlanetMySQL Blog Posts
  - PlanetMySQL Blog: Replication Features in MySQL 5.5.3
  - PlanetMySQL Blog: InnoDB recovery is now faster... much faster!
  - PlanetMySQL Blog: Scalability enhancements of MySQL 5.5.4-m3
  - PlanetMySQL Blog: MySQL 5.5.4-m3 scales to 32 cores
  - PlanetMySQL Blog: MySQL Performance: 5.5.4 @dbSTRESS
  - PlanetMySQL Blog: InnoDB Performance Schema

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Web design/ HTML/CSS

From Jennifer Kyrnin, your Guide to Web Design / HTML If you are considering becoming a professional Web designer, it can help you make up your mind if you know what the job entails. So I've created a new section on my site asking for your stories about what it's like to work as a Web designer. I'm looking for all different types of designers - if you work at a company or you work for yourself - if you've just started or you've been doing it for years, I'd love to hear your story. And I know a lot of new designers would love to know what it's like as well. Plus, this week I cover some of the new features of CSS3 and how to go about reporting an error (on this site or any other) so that it gets fixed quickly. And this week's poll is about PDFs. Follow me on Twitter or Become a Fan on Faceboo

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