Security

Antispyware Soft, also known as AntispywareSoft and Anti-spyware Soft Demo, is another powerful rogue antispyware application from the same family as Anti-virus Soft, it is guaranteed to cause you many computer problems as well as try everything within its power to try and steal your money with the use of malicious tricks and tactics that include a fake system scan, fake system scan report results... Read More »

The iPad is a tablet computer designed and marketed by Apple for Internet browsing, media consumption, gaming, and light content creation. Unlike many older tablets, it uses fingertips for input instead of a stylus. Released in April 2010, it established a new class of devices between Smartphone’s (A smartphone is a mobile phone offering advanced capabilities, often with PC-like functionality) and... Read More »

RevenueWire the affiliate network specializing in high demand digital products has announced the addition of STOPzilla to its affiliate network. RevenueWire began operations in 2007 offering an exciting and new medium for merchants and affiliate marketers alike. The high returns given to RevenueWire’s customers come from its ease of use, its payment system SafeCart and an effective sales referral... Read More »

Cartish Technologies, a managed IT services company has launched a new service dubbed the Cartish Home Care solution. Through this package users get a whole range of features ranging from IT security  that is anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-spyware and protection from infected links to remote PC access from anywhere in world as long as the machine is on the Internet. Viruses are malicious programs... Read More »

An old e-mail scam is making a comeback. This time it’s more interested in stealing your name and e-mail address book than stealing your money. Characteristics The first step is usually an infection by a virus that steals your name, e-mail address and the contacts in your address book. The information is then used to forge you e-mail and send out unsolicited e-mails. Since the virus uses the victims... Read More »

The Oregon Pacific Bank sent out a press release warning its customers about an Online scam targeted at both Oregon Pacific customers and non customers. The phishing scam is in the form of an e-mail which contains a link to a Website asking the user to give personal information as well as credit card or debit card number together with the PIN and password for the account. Phishing is derived from... Read More »

Google has raised an alarm bell saying that most of the anti-virus software programmes which the users download and install are themselves’ malicious programmes spreading virus and worms into one’s computer. It is annoying to hear that the protector is causing severe harm than anyone else. In the past for a period of one year and one month, Google has conducted a thorough check on millions of... Read More »

McAfee, the California based antivirus software and computer security company is suffering bruises in the Q1 of 2010. Dave DeWalt, the CEO of McAfee is a worried man as the entire world was shocked and dumb stuck when they heard the news. He also attributed the results to the bigger charges on restructuring and the two big word daddy of any company Income Taxes. Market is still a thorn field for many... Read More »

Jump to a store and get yourself a Blackberry or an iPhone now or never. I just saw an article and title sets me back and I could not stop writing this one. . We all know that both Apple and Blackberry do not encourage Symbian and Android in their gadget. But is this the only reason for that comment by the CEO of the famous anti-virus software company? What if I say yes to this question? He added... Read More »

Symantec reports that there are nearly 12000 variants of malware detected every day. Isn’t that a big number? It is. We are sometimes “jaw down” by seeing the technological advancements but at the same time there is other side of the coin and the other side is so devastating. Everyday some system or other is reported to be affected by the malware and gets doomed. So what is this all about? What... Read More »

If you are one of those Windows XP users that downloaded the latest McAfee security patch on Wednesday, then you are in for a big surprise as McAfee released a erroneous security patch. However if you are working on Windows Vista or Windows 7, then you won’t have to worry about anything as the patch is working perfectly fine on these Operating Systems. If you feel that after installing the security... Read More »

Microsoft has recently announced the beta version of its new Desktop Management termed “Windows Intune for small and medium businesses.” Through the help of the web, Windows Intune provides management and security services to Windows PCs. Being a cloud service; the Windows Intune provides desktop management and security without the help of a server. Other software or tools that provide desktop... Read More »

Here’s a scary thought: Malwares are getting greedy nowadays. A computer malware has infected PCs using an online file sharing site and has blackmailed more than 5500 users. Hoo boy! BBC reported that a computer malware, known as Kenzero, has managed to invade computer systems posing as a game installation file from Winni, a popular file-sharing site. Winni has 200M users around the world. Kenzero... Read More »

“Hacking” by cyber criminals has been a common buzz word for the past few years. But now it turns out that cyber criminals are resorting to more organized means of affecting computers around the world. One of these means if through creating a rouge antivirus, which cautions users that they have a virus on their computer. Since the antivirus appears as genuine software, computer users accept the... Read More »

In what seems to be a global effort at curbing the spread of malicious malware around the world; Google researchers are all set to release their finding from a research that was carried over a 13 month period. The findings of the research will be discussed at a forum being organized in San Jose titled “Workshop on Large Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats,” on 27 April. The study largely focuses... Read More »

You may think that this might be a scene from the Tom Cruise movie “Minority Report,” but actually xVista has developed a mobile eye scanning device that registers the pattern of your Iris and stores it in a database for future identification. It has been six years since xVista started developing the iris scanner with the help of University of Sussex at a total cost of £1.8 million. The iris... Read More »

Due to recent criticism of lack of security provide by many social networking sites, Facebook has decided to increase the security measures for its users. Through this action Facebook does not only want to protect the privacy of its users but also provide security against malicious threats, like viruses, spyware and spam. The pressure to take action on the security front comes increasingly from parents... Read More »

The best way to prevent viruses from infecting your PC is, obviously to have a good anti-virus software on your computer. This kind of software can detect and block many viruses before they can cause any harm on your PC. A good anti-virus software can scan for viruses on your hard drive or any files , documents or program. If the anti-virus finds any viruses, usually, it can quarantine them and eliminate... Read More »

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a security product for malicious software or malware management. The MBAM free version is a 4.9 MB download. The full version which offers automatic updates, real-time protection, and scheduled scanning is priced at $24.95 for lifetime use of their license. However if you’re a corporate customer, they release annual licenses. PROS This light but sturdy application doubles... Read More »

You purchase a new computer, bring it home, turn it on and think this will make life easy. You start installing software, surfing the net, checking e-mail and downloading games, but over a period of time your computer gets full of unwanted files and big size games and program files. The computer speed starts crawling and we cannot do anything with it conveniently. Sounds like something that happened... Read More »

The Cyber security Act was tabled in the senate in the spring of 2009. Internet companies and civil liberties groups were startled as this bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet in the case of a ‘Cyber Emergency’. Sen. Jay Rockefeller was forced to make amendments to his bill due to the massive opposition from all the sectors of... Read More »