Symantec has announced plans to open a response center in China. The pledge comes just days after CCTV - China's government control media - published a news article that hinted ... Read More

Here's an interesting timeline: May 2006: McAfee publishes "The Safety of Internet Search Engines". Key findings include Google as the second riskiest search engine and the worst offenders as the sponsored ... Read More

CCTV, China's government controlled news station, reports on a possible lawsuit against antivirus vendor Symantec. The cause of the lawsuit - a false positive that resulted in the deletion of ... Read More

Here's a twist on the ubiquitous phishing scam: QUEST Consultants:Private Investigators and Security Consultants is conducting a standard process investigation on behalf of Gold Lake Security Company the international Banking conglomerate, ... Read More

Be aware of scams that masquerade as greeting cards. It may just be a trap laid to launch trojans onto the computers of the unsuspecting. >> Greeting Card Scams

When antivirus software registers a false positive and deletes a legitimate system file, the problems it can cause may seem worse than an actual virus. One way to offset the ... Read More

Strong passwords are a must. But creating a strong password system and keeping those passwords safe can stymie even the most experienced users. As a result, many use the same ... Read More

When you buy a new PC, it comes loaded with OEM software - deals made with software companies by the computer vendors from which you are purchasing. In addition to ... Read More

Having your computer infected with a virus or other malicious software is upsetting enough. But having your files literally held as hostage is even worse. A ransomware trojan attack infects ... Read More

Trojans used to create botnets have long been implicated in spam and credit card fraud rings. But online games, particularly MMORPGs (Massive Multi-player Online Role Playing Games), are also a ... Read More

There's been a bit of press about a Trojan (Win32/Jowspry) that's using the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to bypass local permission-based firewalls and silently download malware from the ... Read More

Phishing scams try to trick recipients into clicking a link which leads to a spoofed website that looks like a real bank or ecommerce site. Any information entered on the ... Read More

Behind the Windows graphical interface is a database workhorse that stores all the information about the operating system and associated software. In fact, more customization can be done via the ... Read More

Trend Micro has released a brief report, titled 'Web 2.0: Empowering Users and Cyber Criminals'. The report looks at the challenges faced by users of "heavily trafficked Web 2.0 sites ... Read More

A new Trojan hit inboxes this morning, masquerading as an update to Internet Explorer. The email arrives with a spoofed From address of either 'admin@microsoft.com' or 'admin@windows.com'. Subject line is ... Read More

There seems to be an increasing number of complaints regarding links in Outlook email not working. In other words, you click a link in an email message and nothing happens. ... Read More

Did you read How Virus Names are Formed? If so, you've got the background info necessary to see the humor in this funny Trojan article by John Leyden of The ... Read More

Antivirus vendors generally assign virus names consisting of a prefix, the name, and a suffix. Not all vendors follow this convention, however, and even those who do may sometimes use ... Read More