Last week cybercriminals went after Facebook users with a number of phishing attacks have now turned around and begun sending spam messages from the Facebook accounts they cracked.
Barry Schnitt, Facebook spokesman said that some of the spam contains “run-of-the mill” Viagra-type messages. Some of it points to a site where users are hit with drive-by [...]

Update Windows
Every second Tuesday of each month, Microsoft issues security updates for Windows, Office, and Internet Explorer, this is known as Patch Tuesday. The company will occasionally issue emergency out-of-cycle patches as well. To receive this, set your Windows system (XP, Vista, or 7) to download and install them automatically upon release. Microsoft has included [...]

After reformatting of any machine, desktop or laptop, the most frequent issue is the trouble finding all right drivers that were properly working before you reformatted. Another way to obtain working drivers is through Microsoft Windows Update. Try these steps below and you should be back with your original settings soon.

AVG Technologies, developers of the world’s leading free anti-virus software, is launching AVG LinkScanner as a free standalone product to protect users against random, invisible online threats.
If a user simply visits one of these corrupted web pages they don’t even need to click on anything to get into real trouble, to lose their credit card [...]

Download the Windows 7 Beta and burn it to a DVD
Once you have downloaded a copy of Windows 7, you will need to burn it to a DVD in order to do a fresh installation. Burn the ISO to a DVD.
Step 1: Partition you hard drive

It is not advisable that you leave your computer on for two or three days at a time. Windows is inclined to get unstable over time, and a reboot refreshes it.
You should either shut your computer down or hibernate it at the end of every workday. Hibernating the computer will not refresh Windows the way [...]

Today PandaLabs, Panda Security’s Malware Analysis and Detection Laboratory announced that they have uncovered evidence that cyber-criminals are starting to create their own search engines and use them to guide users to malicious pages, often created for distributing malware.

Windows Vista and XP’s Autorun have become a hotbed for virus & malware activity, notably the Conficker worm spreading primarily via USB flash drives. To stop the spreading, Microsoft said it’s making a change to the default way of how Windows 7 handles USB drives. The first release candidate of Windows 7, which will soon [...]

Vundo comes from the malware family. It was one of the families added into the MSRT and remains in the top 10 detections every month.
Vundo is regularly reported as an irritation due to the continuous pop-ups that it delivers to the user’s desktop, mostly related to rogue programs; slowing down the user’s internet connection drastically.

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s new Windows 7 operating system includes technology designed to erect different lines of defences depending on the type of network connection in place.
For example, Windows 7 will automatically implement “public” firewall settings for a Sales Representative who connects to the Internet through a hotel broadband service. If the Sales Representative then establishes

An astonishing 80% of businesses that are using cloud computing service providers are not accessing how these firms ensure the data is kept private, says Deloitte.
The firm said in a report (entitled ‘Enterprise@Risk:Privacy & Data Protections Survey’) that is was unclear whether that’s because they lack the means to make sure cloud providers are actually [...]

A study today found that users of the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox Web browsers are far more likely to be surfing the Web with the latest, most protected versions of the browsers than users of either Opera or Safari.
Researchers at c Switzerland and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology studied through anonymized logs from [...]

When Microsoft unveiled societal networking to the world, as a new service, most computer users were extremely excited with the prospect.
Not long after the news was made known, Redmond Company began allowing testers of Microsoft Vine to access and download the Microsoft Vine Diagnostic Tool.
The label tells you exactly what this application was designed to [...]

Although Windows 7 is yet to be released, there has been much talk about its pending release – and the performance it will offer to its users. Some may find that the hype around Windows 7 is overrated – but one can assume, based on the facts known about Windows 7 so far, that this [...]