Archive for the 'Internet' Category

Have you ever wondered what could happen if you’d replied to every “Buy V1agra” message, clicked on every link offering weight loss pills or video of Cristina Aguilera naked? Thanks to experiment organized by McAfee, we know what happens.
McAfee recruited 50 volunteers in 10 countries for a job every security expert tells you to avoid […]

Computer parasites are evil. No one likes them and almost everyone can share terrible experience related to some malware attack. But can malware tactics be employed to do something useful and harmless?
Most of malware is not really complicated; however it is capable of spreading through computers using software vulnerabilities and other methods. Could these tactics […]

How can we distinguish whether a program is anti spyware or a rogue anti spyware? As many corrupt tools are advertised in very sophisticated ways, they may look legal and the line between rogue and legitimate software becomes invisible for inexperienced eye.
Corrupt tools urge to pay for spyware removal; legitimate tools do the same. Paid […]

The phrase saying that “no one is safe on the internet” might be true. Even if security tools you use are effective and updated, and your browsing habits don’t cover risky or illegal stuff, there’s still a possibility to get infected with some nasty computer parasite. People are computer educated these days; they are not […]

There are plenty of malicious websites today. Some of them install trojans and other malware once you visit them and others pretend to be legitimate websites that sell security tools. Both types of websites are harmful: either your computer is infected secretly or you spend money for software that is useless. If only those fraudulent […]

Blocking the unwanted content in your HOSTS file may sound challenging, but the truth is that even an inexperienced user can do it in just a few of seconds.
Locating HOSTS file
First, you have to find the HOSTS file in your system. These are the usual locations:
Windows 95/98/ME = C:\Windows
Windows NT/2K/XP = C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc
"C:" is what usually […]

You hear about scams that lurk online every day. When you see as many articles about successful phishing attempts as this year, you may think that whole online scam thing is exaggerated. Some people even think that phishing has nothing to do with their lifes as no one is interested in their personal information. Both […]

The obvious problem with cyber-crime is that, unlike decent murdering and burglarizing criminals, they are intelligent enough to make a fool of you and your anti-viral software by using insidious methods, which are difficult to recognize. Five of their (albeit outdated) tricks have been reviewed by Erik Larkin of Yahoo.
The first one is the Glieder.H […]

More than a year ago we have heard of Google and StopBadware.org cooperation in tagging malicious websites and warning users of those. As time goes by, several features were added and more companies and organizations joined the project to fulfill one big idea – to reduce malware online.
Google has tagged malicious websites with help of […]

Today it is probably impossible to find a computer user who didn’t ever heard about MP3 music. The MP3 is the most superior format to store thousands of high quality music compositions on your computer’s hard drive or MP3 player. You don’t need to buy those nondurable CDs, sort and change them every five minutes […]