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

Mozilla has made the decision to add McAfee’s ScriptScan add-on for the Firefox web browser to the so called Blocklist. The Blocklist lists add-ons and plugins that are known to “cause serious security, stability, or performance issues with Firefox”. When users try to open the McAfee ScriptScan or McAfee SiteAdvisor page at the official Mozilla [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

It is not really clear to me why url shorteners have become that popular on today’s Internet. Sure, Twitter may have an impact on that, considering its 140 word limit per message, but there do not seem to be a lot of other applications for url shortening services. Despite that, popularity has risen and more [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Online Services

Intel, the world’s biggest manufacturer of computer processors has announced it’s to buy security technology firm McAfee for $7.68bn (£5bn) in cash the BBC reports.  The deal values the anti-virus firm at $48 per share, almost 60% higher than it’s closing share price yesterday. Intel says it will utilise McAfee to help it build security [...]

Categories: companies

Uninstalling anti virus software on a computer system is sometimes not a trivial task as they tend to add their components deep into the system to provide protection from various threats PC users face these days. The need for anti virus software removal tools arises if the default uninstallation fails. This usually leads to a [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

I always used to shy away from companies that provided customers with tools to completely remove their products from a computer system. Two notorious companies that provide those tools are Symantec / Norton with their Norton Removal Tool and McAfee with their Consumer Product Removal Tool. These tools are indispensable when removing Norton or McAfee [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Yahoo started to add a new feature to their search results pages called Searchscan which basically informs the user when a website is listed in the search results that has potentially dangerous content. According to Cybernet News three different warning messages are displayed in the search results depending on the dangers that await the user [...]

Categories: Search Engines, Security

McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008 retails for $39.99 for a one year license normally but you can get it for free for a limited time. It runs on computers with Windows 2000 or newer Microsoft operating systems including Windows Vista and protects your system from various threats such as spyware, viruses, trojans and phishing.

Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Software, Spyware, Windows