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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 […]

Adult websites are known for spreading various computer parasites. Visiting porn sources may result adware, trojans and malicious toolbars secretly installed on a computer. Nevertheless, people keep risking their privacy and security being compromised in exchange for a glance at spicy pictures and videos. The new wave of porn websites is great disappointment for such […]

Rogue security tools seem to be the most popular way to fool people and get their money, but the situation might change quite soon. Apparently malware creators noticed a glitch in most of corrupt anti-spyware. Although fake security tools are pretty convincing and people believe they are useful, most of customers decide not to pay […]

People often believe that cyber scammers and malware creators are impossible to catch and punish. Fortunately, that’s not true. Although, malware makers are rarely identified, October 2008 brings some losses for scammers’ community as distributors of Antivirus XP rogue application are being sued.
People behind scams like AntiVirusXP are known for the lack of information about […]

Almost every computer user knows how difficult it is to remove malware, but do you know how difficult it is to make a malicious website to infect computers? According to experts at Panda Security, it’s not difficult at all. They discovered a tool dedicated to creating fraudulent business. It might look scary at the first […]

Although there are plenty of ways and tools to block pop-ups, there always seems to be more ways to deliver unwanted advertisements no matter what blocker or filter technologies are used on a computer.
Scammers recently found a new way to pass pop-ups blockers and other security tools and bring annoying advertisements to the potential customers. […]

If you and your friend have email accounts provided by the same ISP or you got those on the same webmail system, you will receive different amounts of spam messages. And the number of spam even might be uninfluenced by sharing email address online. The newest research once again confirmed the fact that spambots often […]

NASA admitted that several laptops at International Space Station were infected with worm dedicated to steal passwords. NASA spokesman claimed it wasn’t the first incident of this kind, but he also assured it doesn’t happen frequently. The infected computers were not responsible for any critical tasks; therefore worm hadn’t made any major harm.
According to security […]