Microsoft is warning users that a Trojan is masquerading as the company’s popular free Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) package.
The alert came from Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Malware Protection Center (MMPC) on Wednesday.
“One of the oldest tricks used by rogue antivirus products is to use a similar name as, or have a similar look and feel to, [...]
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Cool Google Search Tip: Google has a feature that brings your search results to life with a dynamic stream of real-time content from across the web. Now, immediately after conducting a search, you can see live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, as well as headlines from news and blog posts [...]
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In the coming months Microsoft will be ending support—including security updates—for a number of important products. If you’ve avoided updating so far, you might want to get moving.
The first event will be April 13, 2010 (like all end-of-support days, a patch Tuesday), when support will end for 2 important configurations: Windows Vista with no service [...]
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Big Brother is coming in more ways than one. Technology is often a two-edged sword. In this case, this school district apparently decided that since they owned the laptops they could control it at all times.
If your laptop computer’s webcam could talk about what it sees, what would it say?
Students of a Pennsylvania school district [...]
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I went against a few of my computer “thou-shalt-not” rules the other day and, well, I remembered why they are rules. I was reading a newsletter from a very trusted security site and came across an ad they had posted from a company that claims it’s software can:
Clear malware. Fix PC errors. Restore speed & [...]
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If Your Password Is 123456, Just Make It HackMe
By ASHLEE VANCE
Published: January 20, 2010
Back at the dawn of the Web, the most popular account password was “12345.”
The New York Times
Today, it’s one digit longer but hardly safer: “123456.”
Despite all the reports of Internet security breaches over the years, including the recent attacks on Google’s e-mail [...]
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Microsoft has had it with old versions of Adobe Flash and has issued Security Advisory 979267 to urge users to either uninstall old versions, or upgrade to the latest. More specifically, the software giant is asking users ditch Flash Player 6.0 as the multimedia player plugin contains multiple bugs. Microsoft rarely issues security advisories on [...]
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Acer Recalls Notebook Computers Due to Burn Hazard
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following products. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Certain Acer Aspire-series Notebook Computers
Units: About 22,000
Manufacturer: Acer America Corporation, of [...]
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When you surf, do you see random words or phrases with double underlines? When you move your mouse over them, they display an advertisement related to the underlined words.
This feature, called in-text advertising, turns appropriate words in the browser window into links to the advertiser’s website. These sites work with various companies to link to its advertisers. [...]
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I picked up Dragon Naturally Speaking over the summer through CircuitCity.com and have been playing around with it. If you don’t know what this is, it’s a program that allows you to speak through an included microphone and watch your spoken words instantly appear in documents, email and instant messages. You can even surf the Web [...]
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