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It has become usual thing that rogue security applications impersonate reputable and legitimate anti-virus programs. Most of the time, cyber-thieves and developers of rogue anti-virus programs use well known logos, images, color combinations and graphical elements to make their bogus applications look more professional and reliable. If you take a look at rogue anti-spyware programs […]

On Thursday, security researchers reported a warning about The Waledac worm which is about to gear up a scam campaign related to the July 4 holiday.
As antivirus vendor ESET senior researcher Pierre-Marc Bureau revealed, the worm, which is known to bloom out updates to previously compromised computers, was discovered to register at least 18 domain […]

Guy Kawasaki is a venture capitalist of a Silicon Valley, who was partially responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984. He has almost 140,000 Twitter followers who were surprised that Kawasaki suddenly started making good money from porn, when a link belonging to host a pornographic video of “Gossip Girl” star Leighton Meester appeared on […]

Security software, called SecureTwitter, is the latest browser add-on released by Finjan. Because Twitter became more and more popular by computer hackers, this product was created to scan links and warn if they follow a rogue page.
The SecureTwitter contains plug-ins for both the Firefox and Internet Explorer and the purpose of this software […]

Mac users should pay their attention to a new parasite. New version of Mac trojan virus is known for changing PC’s DNS settings. Intego, which is responsible for Mac security, announced to find the RSPlug Trojan on websites, offering legal games for users. It’s quite unusual because this parasite is known to infect computers through […]

Intelinet Smart Security is a new applications that present itself as a spyware remover, however we can‘t say it is rogue program, but it‘s advertisement on some websites is misleading. The way of advertisements still is unclear, advertisements is very aggressive; that means product is thrusting constrainedly. What about creators? We haven’t heard yet about […]

Lenovo computers in early next year are planning to present a new security system for notebooks. System allows you to disable your notebook by sending it an SMS message. If the notebook is turned on the lock down happens immediately or, if it’s turned of, the next time the system signs into cellular network.
The system […]

Have you ever wondered how come people are able to register malicious websites and keep those going without facing any legal issues? Roots of some frauds are difficult to track because not every country supports international collaboration, but November 2008 brings justice to our side.
EstDomains, Inc. was known as home of many malicious websites. Fraudulent […]

There must be someone at AVG Technologies trying to sabotage reputation of products developed by this company. Users of AVG anti-virus were forced to delete regular files as those were malicious three times of late month.
First incident happened a month ago, when AVG detected a dangerous trojan and recommended deleting it while it was actually […]

No one wants to run a security program that uses false positives. When a scanner picks up false infections it can mean two things; first, the files are not on a computer at all or second, the files are non-malicious. Some fake security tools supposedly detect fake infections in order to attract customers. However, even […]