Update: On April 3, 2007, Microsoft released MS07-017 to resolve the issue described below. For up to date details, see: Animated Cursor Vulnerability Patched. Following is the original post. A ... Read More

A phishing scam email tries to trick you into clicking a link which leads to a spoofed website that only looks like the real bank or ecommerce site. If you ... Read More

Ever received one of those emails that pretends to be TO someone else, passing on some hot stock tip they've learned? Referred to as 'pump and dump' scams, the intent ... Read More

Someone calling themselves the "Blue China Group" is targeting MySpace users, promising a free 'stalker tracker' program to see who's lurking on the page and viewing the profile. Those ... Read More

Some MySpace users are complaining of the 'oompa loompa' song incessantly playing on their Windows PCs. Some well meaning user searched for Oompa Loompa virus, came across my Leap.A virus ... Read More

I've fielded more than a few questions lately regarding whether on-demand scans are necessary. With today's larger capacity drives and the need to scan all file types, the scans take ... Read More

Imagine if you could be in 40,000 places all at once - or cull data from 120 million diverse sources. That pretty much describes the eagle eye view Symantec has ... Read More

Spybot Search & Destroy offers advanced features that simplify protecting the HOSTS file, blocking installation of unwanted BHOs, and preventing unauthorized additions to certain startup vector. Used properly, these features ... Read More

Patrick Gray of MIS | Magazine has penned a great article, "Attack of the Cyber-Toxins", detailing the complex issues presented by today's malware. One of the things he touches on ... Read More

Interesting that Trend Micro buys HijackThis after malware advancements have made the tool's usefulness all but obsolete: Trend Micro HijackThis I'm going to file this one under the "What were they thinking?" ... Read More

In January 2006, I wrote about the then new SiteAdvisor, dubbing it "the niftiest new thing I've seen in quite some time". Shortly thereafter, McAfee acquired SiteAdvisor but pledged to ... Read More

If you've ever had a blog or a web forum, you know the pain of bots - those insidious automatic (im)posters that fill your blog or forum with comment spam ... Read More

If your antivirus encounters an infected file, there are generally three options available: clean, quarantine, or delete. If the wrong option is selected, the results can be catastrophic. And if ... Read More

Getting a virus on your system is frustrating to say the least, and can be hazardous to the health of your computer. Indeed, today's malicious software can even steal your ... Read More

The antivirus industry has lost one of its earliest and most fascinating members. On the morning of March 7th, Dyan Dyer, founder and CEO of (then) Command Software Systems, passed ... Read More

The Rinbot worm has been dismissed as a non-threat by more than one security vendor. (See "Rinbot Worm Prompts Repeated Denials" for details). Despite the insistence that Rinbot is not ... Read More

Last Friday, I posted customer reviews of Internet Security Suites as voted on by Amazon.com customers. Here's a similar rundown from CNET readers for antispyware scanners: Spybot Search & Destroy, CNET ... Read More

An email posing as a CNN news article about China missile testing is actually an email worm targeting the account credentials of World of Warcraft users. The worm also lowers ... Read More

Having your computer infected with a virus or other malicious software is upsetting enough. But over the past year, a new type of attack promises to be even more disconcerting. ... Read More

I was looking at Amazon.com customer reviews for Internet Security Suites tonight. I excluded those that were designed for Windows Vista (too new) and any that were not current year ... Read More

Is Rinbot the little worm that isn't? Or is it simply the worm that no one wants to acknowledge exists? Here's a timeline of this alleged "non-threat". >> Full article