protections

Twitter has a new spam program it is introducing that it hopes will stop spammers in their tracks. Twitter users will be able to report sites and followers they suspect are spamming and can opt out from contact with the spammer. Though the program won’t actually close down a spamming follower, it will hopefully protect [...]

AVG Technologies has announced that its latest anti-virus software, AVG 9 with added protections, will remain free. The new software is expected to be released in mid-October and is specifically slated to counter the introduction by Microsoft of the Microsoft Security Essentials anti-virus program. Everyone always asks: Why does anyone give away software? Isn’t it [...]

At a recent Virus Bulletin conference one of the attendees found one topic extremely interesting. The topic was about the Russian “Partnerka”, which has been mutated to attack Mac computer systems. The attendee knew that a majority of Mac users have no anti-malware software in place and could be easily infected. At the same conference [...]

According to a recent article, Apple has included malware protection in their new Snow Leopard operating system. The protections can scan for two specific malware variants and protect the system from these two trojans.
According to a recent article at ZD Net it also states the following information:

Apple’s anti-malware function only scans files downloaded with a [...]

Oh, goody. There is a report out in which it states that, using an algorithm formula, it is possible to guess anyone’s Social Security Number. One only needs to know the date of when the person was born and also the city where the birth took place. The smaller the state, the easier it is [...]

The military calls it ’search and destroy’ amd it appears that is exactly what Microsoft is doing. They have declared war on McAfee and Symantec. Their new Microsoft Security Essentials, aka Morro, will have a HUGE advantage over anything that McAfee and Symantec will be able to offer. It will be 100% free for the [...]

I had a question from reader Buffet who inquired about which firewall I was using. I had replied that on my Vista box I was using Vista Firewall Control. But VFC is only for Vista and Windows 7 and Buffet is currently using Windows XP. So I thought I would ask you people what firewall [...]

Microsoft has been trying for several years to try and persuade consumer to use their anti-virus/spyware combo software. They first tried offering protection to us with their OneCare software products. I used OneCare while it was in beta testing. It appeared to work properly and also offered some other features such as backup/restore in addition [...]

A new type of malware is disguising itself as a Firefox plugin in order to steal passwords on a users computer. Over at BitDefender they have isolated the bug known as Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A.
BitDefender also states that:
According to BitDefender researchers, the Trojan filters data sent by the victim to a large number of designated banking websites [...]

You have to read this first, than I’ll give my opinion about what the writer wrote.
Why didn’t AVG, Lavasoft and Comodo detect registry redirects?
Hi all
I’ve just spent the last week tearing my hair out with a terrible rogue dialler, browser hijack and virus. And, against my will, sending out thousands of emails along the lines [...]

Over at IT Wire they have a story about fake news articles allegedly from CNN or MSNBC, are being spoofed in an attempt to spread malware and spyware onto computer systems. The article states that the amount of fake news spam is about 5 million articles per hour. But is that a lot of spam? [...]

So I am roaming around the Internet when I find this article about anti-viruses and some of the testing done by Consumer Reports. I also discovered in my searching a  an interesting article at the Washington Post in which some of the anti-virus companies and others chastised the way Consumer Reports tested the software. It [...]

The TSA has a program called Registered Traveler in which seven vendors are signing up clients to get in the fast lane going through airport security checks, but one of the vendors lost one of their laptops at the San Francisco airport, which contained the unencrypted information of 33,000 clients. In the article it [...]

In my original article about Microsoft & Kaiser Permanente joining in an effort to store patient records [here], one reader asked a question that I found interesting.
Reader leftystrat states:
I’ve been watching this unfold. We seem to have `progressed’ from the concept of electronic records directly to the debate on which service to use to store [...]

I received [Lockergnome] Pirillo’s Picks newsletter dated 2-15-08 and what do I see listed at the top? A super deal on all three of Uniblue’s products, each at only $14.95 apiece. What I found interesting is that this special pricing is the cheapest I have seen on these fine products and I wanted to [...]