The social network Facebook receives more and more applications, but some of them cannot be safe. It was what verified the research chief of safety of softwares from AVG Technologies, Roger Thompson, when he discovered that one of the applications  was a false antivirus.
The discovery was made when Thompson noticed that a Russian website, known [...]

According to Symantec, ‘more than 40 million people have fallen victim to the “scareware” scam in the past 12 months.’ The security firm has identified 250 versions of scareware. The scam has been fetching more than £750,000 each a year for online criminals. These perpetrators convince computer users to download fake anti-virus software. To further [...]

The virtual security firm Sophos issued a warning about a virus transmitted by an email with supposed music files with novel and photos of Michael Jackson. The warning was passed on this Thursday (2).

The email arrives in your inbox with the subject “Remembering Michael Jackson “ and is sent by the sender “sarah@michaeljackson.com “, [...]

There are only two drugs approved to treat the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly called swine flu. Only Relenza and Tamiflu are approved to cure the viral infection.  Other medicines that are advertised as approved over Internet sites that sell online medications may either be counterfeit or a health risk. “Protect yourselves and your computer [...]

The recent threat of the Conficker virus disabling all the computers worldwide has remained unfounded. Thankfully nothing serious has been reported ever since and Microsoft had even offered a bounty for those who could capture the author of the malicious software.
The Conficker worm has nevertheless attacked about 3 million computers till now and it should [...]

If you thought this April’s Fools Day you could play a prank on one of your friends, think again! There is apparently going to be a vicious computer virus let out by malicious geeks in order to bring down millions of computers. There is a great possibility that it could be yours as well!
The worm [...]