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The April Fools Day Special Conficker worm and its variants have been dreaded by computer users across the world for some time now.
Even though it may seem that the virus has been maintaining a low profile for the past few days, security experts warn that the virus is still a threat. In reality, it has [...]

Facebook’s 120 million users are being targeted by a virus designed to get hold of sensitive information like credit card details.
‘Koobface’ spreads by sending a message to people’s inboxes, pretending to be from a Facebook friend.
It says “you look funny in this new video” or “you look just awesome in this new video”.
By clicking on [...]

Security firm Sophos warned on Thursday that e-mails being circulated on the Web that purport to offer a free iPhone game instead are carrying a Trojan horse that can take control of infected Windows machines.
The e-mails have subject lines like “Virtual iPhone games!” and “Apple: The most popular game!” The attachment is called “Penguin.Panic.zip,” which [...]

Antivirus XP 2008 is back, unfortunately. It’s not an antivirus app, but a cleverly disguised rogue security application that tries to get you to buy the non-existent “security” it’s selling. Advertised using the common tricks of Trojans and faux security alerts, this nasty piece of malware can take over your desktop settings to mimic safe [...]

I spoke at my first seminar yesterday. The location was the scenic Couer D’Alene Resort in Couer D’Alene, Idaho. The topic pretty much veered off from computer fraud to computer crime.  It wasn’t surprising to see some of the audience were completely shocked at the end of the day. Nevertheless, it was an exhilarating experience [...]

Computer Active is giving away AVG Anti-Virus 7.5 Professional for a year. The reason AVG is letting them do that is probably to get more people to try the Pro version and hope they will pay at the end of a year.
Here is a link to the download which is valid till Jan 17th 2008
ftp://AVG:av75@ftp.vnudownloads.org/avg7_503a1171_vnu.exe
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Here are some useful tools to use if you are having spyware or malware problems. ‘How do I know if I have something on my computer’? Well, there is no real sure shot way of knowing that but your computer normally shows some kind of symptoms when it is infected. Your computer might slow [...]

X-RayPC is a nifty little tool that merges the functionality of HijackThis! and the advantage of a regularly updated online database. The program requires no installation and the download is a tiny 331 kb zip file. After a scan, the results are automatically matched with the database and an icon next to each entry [...]

In the age of spyware, malware and other such nasty stuff, it is pretty difficult to protect your digital identity. Users need to think twice before logging in to a bank or financial services website on a public computer, or for that matter, even on a personal computer. Using the On-Screen Keyboard in Windows has [...]