In the real world game of keep-away, two people toss a ball back and forth while a third person - the man in the middle - tries to intercept the ... Read More

The noscript addon makes Firefox safer, but its whitelist approach doesn't leave users with many options. Internet Explorer provides four separately configurable security zones: Internet, Local, Trusted, and Restricted. Proper ... Read More

Achieving good computer security can seem like a daunting task. Fortunately, following these few simple steps can provide a good measure of security in very little time. >> Computer ... Read More

A critical false positive in Kaspersky antivirus wrongly identified a virus in Windows Explorer, either quarantining or deleting Explorer.exe depending on the user's configuration. Visible symptoms would be immediate - ... Read More

Every 3.5 seconds, someone in the U.S. has their identity stolen. This holiday season alone, over 9 million people will be affected. Identity theft is both an online and offline ... Read More

If you're buying or getting a new PC this holiday season, or you've got an older one in need of some TLC, the folks at CyberDefender are giving away a ... Read More

I received a lovely Bluemountain.com Christmas ecard from an About.com reader. It was touching and delightful. The only downside is that the good greeting card was sandwiched in between several ... Read More

It's never a good idea to take a link at face value; hovering over it or right-clicking and choosing properties is the best way to proceed. (For specific instructions, see ... Read More

Attackers are increasingly using greeting card scams to foist trojans on the unsuspecting. There are two victims with these greeting card scams - the user who was tricked into infecting ... Read More

In 1983, Fred Cohen coined the term “computer virus”, postulating a virus was "a program that can 'infect' other programs by modifying them to include a possibly evolved copy of ... Read More

In its simplest form, a keylogger trojan is malicious, surreptitious software that monitors your keystrokes, logging them to a file and sending them off to remote attackers. Some keyloggers are ... Read More

| Glossary | In the antivirus world, a signature is an algorithm or hash (a number derived from a string of text) that uniquely identifies a specific virus. Depending on ... Read More

Phishing is a scam in which the attacker sends an email purporting to be from a valid financial or ecommerce provider. The email tries to trick recipients into clicking a ... Read More

Don't you just hate it when you get a song stuck in your head, the chorus just repeating over and over again. That's exactly what happened to me when reading ... Read More