The Washington state attorney general and Microsoft have teamed up to put a stop to rogue scanners. Termed scareware, the rogue scanners employ deceptive advertising to trick victims into purchasing ... Read More

If you tried Norton Internet Security in the past, your PC may have suffered a system crippling performance hit. And that's a shame, because aside from the performance issues, Symantec ... Read More

PC Tools iAntivirus offers Mac antivirus software free to home/home office users and for a nominal fee to corporate Macintosh users. iAntivirus guards against Mac only malware - a focus ... Read More

Malware often drops itself as a hidden file and then disables the Folder Options menu in Windows Explorer so you can't change the settings to view hidden files and folders. ... Read More

Intego is reporting a fairly serious sounding bug in Apple's latest version of QuickTime (v7.5.5). According to Intego, "The '<? quicktime type= ?>' tag fails to handle long strings, which ... Read More

These days, it almost seems there are more bad scanners than good. Rogue scanners display false virus alerts, with instructions to buy the "full version" in order to remove the ... Read More

High tech doesn't always mean highly secure - though one wishes it would. A few weeks ago NASA reported a computer virus on the space station. Now it's been reported ... Read More

We've all been there - you get an alert from your virus scanner warning that a particular file is infected. Sometimes the alert reappears even after you've told the antivirus ... Read More

The Trusted Zone in Internet Explorer is usually configured to be more permissive (to allow things like file downloads). It's not unusual for a downloader trojan to take advantage of ... Read More

It turns out that contrary to a previous post, Google Chrome doesn't actually prefetch webpages. Instead, it simply resolves the IP address to the domain name in advance. Should the ... Read More

Less than a day out, and already frustrated users are posting about the Googleupdate "virus" which continually tries to gain Internet access even if Chrome itself isn't active. (And allegedly ... Read More

In May 2007, Google quietly acquired GreenBorder Technologies which provided a virtualization sandbox for untrusted Web browser content and enabled users to flush all remnants of visits to designated sites. ... Read More