Archive for June, 2008:
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Yahoo has thrown down the gauntlet against spammers and filed suit against a group individuals who sent out e-mails claiming that the recipients won monetary prizes. The e-mails contained links that requested ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 30th, 2008.
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Computer users may be surprised to know that each year an annual hacker contest is held, but what would shock them even more is that this year there will be a virus ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 29th, 2008.
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Did you ever wonder if people know what you do on the Internet? Well, a group of new websites allows people to do just that. ZabaSearch.com, Spock.com, Wink.com and Spokeo.com let people ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 28th, 2008.
Friday, June 27th, 2008
The popular download site TorrentSpy.com shut down months ago, but earlier this month a federal judge ordered the website to pay $111 million dollars in damages to movie studies. The decision was ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 27th, 2008.
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
A good percentage of people online use sites that involve disclosure of their personal financial information. Hackers looking to capitalize on that fact take part in a process called phishing in an ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 26th, 2008.
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Everywhere you [go] these days you see people using their smart phones for a variety of tasks. It seems now that may not be the wisest idea. A recent study showed that ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 25th, 2008.
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
It is important to have a firewall up and running on your computer, but you only need one. Many people don't realize that they automatically have a firewall running through Windows and ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 24th, 2008.
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
The website for the Phoenix Mars Lander had to be taken down after it was hacked recently. The website's lead blog entry was replaced by a message that read "hacked by VITAL" ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 23rd, 2008.
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
We have all been there, trying to remember a password we created for a website and having absolutely no idea what we chose. So many people have to write their passwords down ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 21st, 2008.
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Anyone who has run the Norton Anti-virus program on their computer knows that it can slow your computer down to turtles pace. Although Norton offers an excellent product this leads many users ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 20th, 2008.
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Make no mistake about it, malware is evolving faster than our current security measures can keep up with it. The people who want to use malware programs are hiring test labs and ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 19th, 2008.
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Yahoo is going a step further to protect their users this month by adding a brand new security feature. They have joined forces with computer protection software giant McAfee to start offering ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 18th, 2008.
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
We have all had Internet Explorer 7 for a while now and we have finally gotten used to it. Looming on the horizon is the emergence of Internet Explorer 8, which Microsoft ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 17th, 2008.
Monday, June 16th, 2008
Anyone who owns a Mac knows that getting updates for your web browser is rare. For the most part Macs are impervious to viruses and don't require the constant updates that browsers ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 16th, 2008.
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
With such a heavy focus on protecting our e-mail and Internet activity many network managers are over looking the open threat of IM (instant messenger) in the office. An astounding 85 percent ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 15th, 2008.
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
When you are online frequently and you take part in a lot of online transactions identity theft is a huge concern. Concern over identity theft is not unwarranted; in 2005 alone 8.3 ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 14th, 2008.
Friday, June 13th, 2008
Generally when a hacker attacks a computer or website it is for personal gain or to be a nuisance. However, recently hackers motivated by ill intent took over an epilepsy website in ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 13th, 2008.
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Spammers will stop at nothing to gain access to your e-mail box and now they are exploiting Google to do just that. Google has a lot of credibility in the online world ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 12th, 2008.
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
A recently discovered Facebook flaw may possibly lead to hackers hijacking user accounts. The flaw that was discovered would allow potential hackers to execute scripts on Facebook that create fraudulent log-in pages ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 11th, 2008.
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Many people think that large corporations are impervious to the attacks of hackers. Not so, last week hackers hijacked Comcast's corporate web portal for several hours leaving the company's 14.1 million subscribers ...
Posted by AntivirusWare on June 10th, 2008.