Sick of spam, that ubiquitous unwanted email clogging your inbox? Apparently, so is the search giant Lycos Europe. The company is offering a free screensaver in limited areas (the UK ... Read More

Phishing scams are cleverly designed to trick users into divulging sensitive financial information. Your best defense is knowledge. Arm yourself by examining the phishing email examples provided in this walkthrough ... Read More

Antivirus software vendor BitDefender has released two new enterprise products - BitDefender Enterprise Manager 2.5 and BitDefender 1.9 for File Server as well as additional solutions for Windows mailserver and ... Read More

Last week's Sober.I worm arrived in either German or English language messages, depending on the domain of the recipient. This week, a new rash of internationally-flavored worms have appeared. The ... Read More

Before you can understand the impact malicious software can have on your PC, you first need to understand a bit about files, folders, drives, and how Windows handles these. Full story

This week’s virus report looks at five worms -Sober.I, Bagle.BG, Yanz.A, Drew.A and Aler.A-, and a Trojan called Msnsoug.A. Report courtesy of Panda Software for the week ending November 19, ... Read More

Phishing email - those fraudulant email claiming to be from the likes of Citizen Bank, eBay, and PayPal - have one thing in common. They all want to separate you ... Read More

A new variant of the Sober worm began spreading rapidly in Europe on the morning of November 19th. Sober.I description

This week's report on viruses and intruders looks at the IFRAME.BoF exploit, as well as the Mydoom.AE, Mydoom.AF (Bofra.A | Bofra.B) and Gavir.A worms. Report courtesy of Panda Software. IFRAME.BoF is ... Read More

The Bofra.A worm (a.k.a. MyDoom.AG, MyDoom.AH, or MyDoom.AI) exploits some users' penchants for porn and a flaw in Windows to set in motion an ever-moving target of malicious downloads. Full Story

FaceTime Communications has announced two key security initiatives aimed at mitigating the growing risks of unmanaged IM and P2P use: the FaceTime Instant Response Security Team (FIRST) and a free ... Read More

Though it often seems that virus names are assigned indiscriminately, there is a method to the madness. When attempting to find information about a particular virus, it can be helpful ... Read More

A year long investigation dubbed Operation Firewall has led to the arrest of 28 cyber-criminals said to be responsible for a rash of credit card and identity thefts that have ... Read More

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Today's latest influx of Internet users continue to be subjected to - and believe - the oldest of the Internet ... Read More