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http://www.apple.com/pr/pdf/140127upd_nat_sec_and_law_enf_orders.pdf Apple issues update on U.S. government surveillance requests By Mikey Campbell Apple on Monday released an updated report regarding the company's cooperation in U.S. government surveillance initiatives, noting both national security orders and more…

I see the forum had a makeover and basically all information about Kudos were removed from all lists. Is there any way we could get it back in the list of a users posts? I find that useful when searching for old helpful posts. Example: http://community.f-secure.com/t5/forums/recentpostspage/post-type/message/user-id/16708

causes the subscription notifications to stop working.

To get the most from our Community, please take note of the following tips on when and how to post. BEFORE YOU POST * Check the “Sticky” topics at the top of the board. The most commonly sought answers can usually be located there. * Search and Browse. The Search field allows you to find answers from the Forum and from the…

Every now and then a thread reaches a dead end. We've tried to help in every way we can and it might also been reported to support but without any response. Since most F-Secure employees doesn't log in during evenings and weekends there may be a lot of new posts to go through. A great help could be to let Trusted…

Dear All, it's been a pleasure to belong in this Community with all of you this year! We've come a long way thanks to your contributions. Thanks. Have a relaxing and peaceful Winter Holidays

Hello, valued Community members! Due to the recent volume of threads dealing with F-Secure Key, we have decided to create a new board for these posts. All earlier Key posts will be migrated to this new board. We have also chosen to simplify the names of the Home Security boards to simply: * Security * Backup * Password…

Dear All, we'll have a short maintenance break today between 15.30 and 16.00 EET, the break will take up to 10 minutes. Apologies for the downtime!

I HAVE RENEWED MY SUBSCRIPTION FOR 2 YEARS ONE WEEK AGO. THE RENEWAL NOTIFICATION KEEPS CONSTANTLY APPEARING. HOW DO I PREVENT THIS?

Dear All, We are launching a new Idea Exchange Board to let you all share and exchange your ideas on how to improve and develop our solutions. The community team will be monitoring the board on a daily basis and our F-Secure Product Managers will come in on a monthly basis to update statuses of the ideas and post their…

Dear All, we'll have a short maintenance break today between 15.30 and 16.00 EET, the break will take up to 10 minutes. Apologies for the downtime!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/25/nsa_botnet/ NSA installed '50,000 malware sleeper cells' in world computer networks Government tools penetrated many a Brazilian, apparently By John Leyden, 25th November 2013 America's NSA had established an army of "sleeper cells" – malware-infected, remote-controllable computers –…

New thread over at Virgin Media; http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Internet-security/F-Secure/td-p/2083806 Support not shown in the best light here!

Health Check and the Online Scanner need updating so they are compatible with Win 8.1.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/21/stuxnet_fearsome_predecessor/ Meet Stuxnet's stealthier older sister: Super-bug turned Iran's nuke plants into pressure cookers New report documents Mark I cyber-weapon build By John Leyden, 21st November 2013 Analysis Newly published research has shined new light on super-malware…

Is there any weekend support available from either F-Secure, or the forum staff? If not, can I suggest that this is something that needs looking into? I reported a post yesterday, for 'inappropriate content' (it is displaying personal details - phone number, email address, and security code), but this has not been actioned…

I like the new recommended posts listed under each thread. A very good idea. Hopefully new users will peruse these and find information more quickly. 

Take a look here at how other Security vendors place their products in separate sections; Webroot; https://community.webroot.com/t5/Community-Forums/ct-p/Forums Kaspersky; http://forum.kaspersky.com/ Eset; https://forum.eset.com/ Much easier to post and find things in the relevant sections. Have F-Secure any thoughts on…

The Awards Section needs some serious updating; http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/business_global/references/awards/2012 You do have a full time webmaster?

In The News: Singapore Hacker Arrested! Using Mac OS X to do a voice recognition technology! Apple can trace you! Youtube Videos:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmAe3n9w-WU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8x3z1zpffk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwEyB42swMU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GeUIRk2Bm8…

Hi, we're having temporary skin problems. We're working on fixing it!

Dear Support! The possibility to report pages for unblocking (URL http://browsingprotection.f-secure.com) is for Site Owners only (only the Link "Site Owner Feedback" exist)? If not, it would be better to make an additional Link ("User Feedback" or so). Thank you for your time! Kind regards, Norbert Schneider Aka SwissBIT

Dear All, we're planning to make some changes in the F-Secure Community in the nearest future. We'd love to hear your suggestions on how we could improve. What kind of experience do you expect from this Community? What features are you looking forward to? What kind of content would you welcome here? Tell us! Let's make…

Dear All, we're going to merge two boards in Betas and Technology Previews section of the Community later this week. All content from Mac Protection Technology Preview is going tobe moved to Windows Technology Preview & Internet Security Beta. The new joint board will be named Home Solution Beta Programs.

Dear All, we've just launched a photo contest where you can win an F-Secure umbrella. Check it out HERE!

Hi, we have a new functionality here. You can mention someone in a post and they'll get notified. Just type @ and the community nick of a person you want to poke. Pretty neat, isn't it , @Jenni ?

Hello F-Secure team and members. Since i bought this product, i'm very proud to recommend it to my friends and customers. Simplicity, Effectiveness, really complete. Well i've never got big troubles with you, so i decided to continue paying the soft. Today i have to ask you why did you remove your excellent firewall system…

Hi, Where is the actual ChangeLog for v2013 Release 4? On site ... http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/home_global/support/support-news ... the lase log is about Rel. 3! Best regards, SwissBIT

When logged in and clicking on My Settings, the page which comes up shows a lot of general information about F-Secure. IMHO, it would be much better if this page only had the My Settings tags and nothing else.

Hello, how can I change my community email address? I haven't access to the old "My status" or "My Account" - and in "My Settings" is nothing ... Kind regards, SwissBIT