Hardly a day or so goes by when I don’t hear from someone that their computer has been overtaken by a program that continually pops up windows prompting them to take action of some sort.
In a move to provide customers with more comprehensive and functional security software Kaspersky Lab has launched a new product which integrates its current consumer security suite with new capabilities such as encryption, backup, password management, and the ability to manage the product across a network.
Every single day, more and more threats are entering the web. Unfortunately, the creators of this type of malware have started to be more inventive. This time they have designed the rogueware named CleanUp Antivirus.
The most common Internet attacks come when the humans using the computer is to be knowledgeable of potential threats. Antivirus and Internet security may help you up to a point, but ultimately it is the users priority to keep informed and to know what is going on. An interesting article appeared on the Internet today [...]
Big news from Spain today that the Mariposa botnet has been taken down. Which may lead you to ask – what on earth is a botnet? Rik Ferguson, a web security analyst at Trend Micro, has some answers: What is a botnet? Criminals use malicious software, or malware, to break into computers. The computers they [...]
There is no antivirus software that will catch all viruses. Even the best security applications do not have a perfect detection rate which means that it can happen that a virus slips past them and infects the computer system. There are a few options to cope with this problem like sandboxing, using virtual machines or [...]
