Ooooh, what a great question! I’m sure all of you have been in this situation before. You know, you order a new piece of software and as soon as you go to install it, you’re told to turn your antivirus program off. That doesn’t seem right, does it? I mean, your antivirus program is there [...]
Recently one of my friends contacted me on Gtalk and told me that there was some anti-spyware encountered when she was browsing Internet. Suddenly she got alerts saying that her computer is severely infected or being attacked. These alert ask you to download and install Windows Defender 2009 to remove the infections caused to your [...]
Spam is a huge business. It’s all profit driven. They’re getting out millions of pieces of marketing propaganda a day at little or no cost,” says Tom Copeland, president of the Canadian Association of Internet Service Providers. In its mildest form, unsolicited commercial e-mail, or spam, is annoying, cluttering your inbox. At its worst, it [...]
By browsing a web page, you could infect your computer with spyware, adware, dialers and hijackers. These, unwelcome guests, are some of the fastest growing threats on the Internet today. It is important to protect your computer and one of the most powerful software products, available for this, is Spyware Blaster, a program created by [...]
Trojan horse is a program in which malicious or harmful code is contained inside apparently harmless programming or data in such a way that it can get control and do its chosen form of damage, such as ruining the file allocation table on your hard disk, or modifying your registry keys, which can cripple and [...]
We will always pay for security. If software vendors have liability costs, they’ll pass those on to us. It might not be cheaper than what we’re paying today. But as long as we’re going to pay, we might as well pay to fix the problem. Forcing the software vendor to pay to fix the problem [...]
Kardphisher Trojan, which was first spotted in the wild in April 2007, is a malware that is mimicking the Windows XP activation interface while collecting the credit card details the end user submits. In the new version there are significant changes to visual interface and usability of the trojan, consequently improving its authenticity.
We have posted many methods on how can you protect your pen drive from viruses, and even if your pen drive got infected with some virus you can remove the virus with various removal tools. There could be situation when you want to backup your data from a virus infected pen drive.
Today, we found another [...]
Symantec Antivirus Live Update has a problem of hang at 99% in Windows Vista. The live update is launched, download is done, and after I pressed Finish button, it gave a small pop-up window showing a progress-bar saying “Updating Virus Protection Files”, this progress bar hangs at 99% and remains at 99% for ever, I [...]
It was created with the help of anti-virus programs work and which programs do not work. Or programs that really deserve to be in the top ten of the world’s Internet. You would be surprised to know that there are several sites that have been checked, and ten different. This does not take into account [...]
