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Facebook provides Free Software Anti Virus

Good news for all Facebook users. Social networking site whose popularity is growing shining will share internet security software free of charge.

This is thanks to the cooperation that has been woven pembesut Facebook with anti-virus, McAfee. McAfee anti-virus will be available to all Facebook members across the world, numbering around 350 million people.

The whole Facebook users can get Internet Security Software from McAfee Suite provided free of charge for six months, and thereafter will get a special discount to subscribe. However, no mention of how many special discounts are offered.

Security software is available in McAfee’s Facebook fan page. Besides Facebook McAfee also install software to identify the infected user’s computer, and then suggest the user to clean the computer before proceeding to access Facebook.

“By embracing McAfee, we made a step forward to make the Internet safer and minimize the threats that may terrorize our services,” said Elliot Schrage, Vice President of Global Communications, Marketing and Public Policy Facebook.

Indeed the current social networking sites like Facebook vulnerable to become coveted ‘ignorant hands’ of the virtual dedemit, for example, to send a virus attack, or spam messages (junk messages).

Con artists also use Facebook’s popularity to launch a phishing trap by making the user personal data.

Facebook announced, McAfee security software will be available initially for all members of Facebook in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, France, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. While for other countries will soon follow throughout the first quarter of this year.

Released Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3

Sun launched the GlassFish Enterprise Server v3. This is the first application server compatible with Java EE6 that eliminates the complexity, featured a new, significant and increasing flexibility.

GlassFish is an application server compatible with Java EE is the most frequently downloaded in the industry. With more than 24 million up to this day, the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 provides solutions enterprise-level application server based on open source.

With the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3, organizations can create and use a modern Web applications with Java EE 6 Web Profile and easily increase the power of Java EE 6 platform as a whole for enterprise applications.

Developers also benefit from the programming model simpler and increased productivity offered by the Java EE 6, which enables faster development and help reduce development costs.

“In addition to presenting the remarkable improvements in Java EE 6, Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 provides features to help improve the start-up time and reduce resource utilization capabilities coupled with fine-grained monitoring that offers a better observabilitas for developers and IT operators, “said Karen Tegan Padir, Vice President of Infrastructure Software MySQL and Sun

He also explained that Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 is based on open source technology, so customers have more control over the use of their products and do not have to choose between the features of open source and enterprise.

“GlassFish Enterprise Server offer transparency through the roadmap requirements and priorities of products available to the public that are reinforced by external contributions and energetic community,” he said.

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