Every new release of Windows and Macintosh OS X sees a plethora of new and improved functionality. But there is always something missing, some little functionality that is needed to get a small task you’re …

As if the financial and credit crisis isn’t enough to deal with for many people already, scammers have already lined up to take advantage of fearful bank customers. The US-CERT reports:
“US-CERT is aware of an …

As recently reported in my posting here, there are a few companies and products out there that claim toremove malicious programs (”malware“) from your computer or make it run faster (removing problems by cleaning up …

A few weeks ago, I was humming along watching YouTube videos (in their original locations) on my home machine (a Media PC), when all of a sudden my Avista Antivirus (a free version) told me …

You may be wondering: am I the nerdy guy with the tie or the cool slacker in the sweatshirt. Well, maybe you are both?

Like you, I like getting the most bang for my buck. With browsers, since I do not use any browsers I have to pay for, I have to figure in the time I spend familiarizing …

As the US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team) points out, if you are just browsing on the Internet, and all of a sudden you are getting pop-ups that supposedly scan your computer and report …

The full details are not yet known, but Manuel Caballero has just given a presentation at Microsoft’s BlueHat security conference. Apparently, an enormous security problem in IE 6 and 7 has been discovered, a so-called …

F-Secure recently reported in their blog that even PDF files can now be used for attacks to install malicious software like rootkits or trojans.
In the very next entry on their blog they report about a …

Hold off on the update for now
So it’s no surprise that the new Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Windows officially released last week, which finally incorporates the nearly 100 security fixes that have been released …