It would appear that Google’s unfortunately lax approach to vetting apps submitted to the Android store is counting heavily against the platform, as McAfee have released figures showing it is now becoming the biggest target for malware writers. Nokia’s now mostly retired Symbian operating system still sits in a resounding first place with just under [...]

Categories: Google

Sometimes you do not want to or cannot install another security software on your computer system to scan for malware. Maybe you do not have the rights to install software on the computer or you have a program installed and do not want to risk incompatibilities. The alternative is an application like F-Secure’s Online Scanner [...]

Categories: Online Services, Security, Spyware

A US man who sent more than 27 million spam to Facebook users has turned himself in to FBI officers in California after being put on their wanted list.  Sanford Wallace, from Las Vegas developed a program that was able to circumvent Facebook’s spam filters.  The software then lured over 500,000 people to hand over [...]

Categories: Facebook, Tutorials Basic

Malware as it is comes in many forms. Sometimes there are viruses that will lock your antivirus program and render it unusable. What do you do to escape this? There are several options, of course. This is a way to use a free program called Autoruns. Autoruns allows you to manually remove infections. This does [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Casir, which stands for Common and Stubborn Infections Remover, has been specifically designed by its developer to remove virus infections on a system that many regular antivirus software programs have troubles disinfecting. These types of malware often manipulate the system to make their removal more difficulty, for instance by disabling Safe Mode, preventing the installation [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

Rkill stops malware processes from running. It is useful because active malware processes running on your PC may not be detected by antivirus software. You can always go to the Task Manager in Windows to view active processes. If you cannot identify them, or they are blocked from the Task Manager list, you will find [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Spyware, Tutorials Basic, Windows

A computer with a malware infection causes serious troubles for its owner or the current users, especially if they are not aware of the infection. The danger itself depends largely on the type and purpose of the malware, and can range from stealing files to destructive behavior or using the hijacked computer as a proxy [...]

Categories: Google, Security

Security firm NSS Labs have been running some tests on different modern web browsers to see how they defend and protect their users against socially-engineered malware.  This is malware that attempts to trick users into installing it, much in the way Apple Mac users have been suffering with the recent spate of ‘Mac Defender’ malware. [...]

Categories: Firefox, Google Chrome, ie, Internet Explorer, Opera, Security

For months now I’ve been writing about the security problems with Google’s Android operating system.  Now yet more malware has been found in the Android marketplace, this time by security researchers. The news, which was reported by ComputerWorld, said that four new malware apps were discovered on Friday by Lookout Security that were infected by [...]

Categories: Google, Security