BitDefender has announced a special pricing deal on their just released version 10 antivirus line. If you live in North America and you purchase a single license before January 2007, ... Read More

Think phishing scams can't be stopped? I say, think again. Just as any legitimate commerce follows the rules of supply and demand, so do illegal means. If the demand is ... Read More

AutoComplete not only makes it easier for you to automatically fill in forms and logon to secure sites - it also makes it easier for Trojans and hackers to gain ... Read More

Some spyware and adware will add miscreant links to your Internet Explorer Trusted Sites Zone. This may allow the sites to run with fewer security restrictions. Make sure you periodically ... Read More

New exploit code leveraging the vulnerability in the Windows server service is circulating. Unlike the previous MS06-040 exploit, which targeted only Windows 2000 systems, this latest exploit allegedly impacts Windows ... Read More

Consumer Reports is drawing accusations of misleading testing from the security industry, and I say rightfully so. Igor Muttik of McAfee AVERT makes excellent points in his blog post on ... Read More

Several months ago I wrote about the problem of MMORPG Trojans being used to make real world profits off in-game currency and merchandise. Now, it seems Microsoft has taken up ... Read More

Various sources are reporting that a vulnerability in Windows server service may be the target of remote attack intended to build a botnet of compromised PCs. The Windows server service ... Read More

Beware of strangers sending greeting cards. The latest batch of malicious spam claims that "Sender at 'Nikol' sent you an 'e-card'". Those who try to view the card are instructed ... Read More

Wendy Boswell, About's Web Search guru, has done a great job outlining the very frightening implications of AOL's major blunder: publicly posting personally identifiable search histories for well over half ... Read More

According to several news reports, Google has begun alerting users when they click on websites that have been identified by StopBadware as being, well, bad. I went through the list ... Read More

The more a story gets told, the more the original story gets changed by each new storyteller. Sometimes, the story gets so far removed from the original, that the entire ... Read More

The media is buzzing about a new PowerShell worm, MSH/Cibyz.A, that spreads via the KaZaA filesharing network and by overwriting certain files on an impacted user's system. The problem is, ... Read More

Researchers at eEye Digital recently discovered serious security vulnerabilities in McAfee enterprise and consumer security products. That alone is not surprising. After all, security vulnerabilities can - and do - ... Read More