By admin on Aug 26, 2009 in Internet, Viruses and Spyware | 3 Comments
According to Internet security company McAfee, Actress Jessica Biel is the most ‘dangerous’ celebrity on the Web. An online search involving her name is most likely to lead you to a Web site with spyware, viruses and other malware. She has overtaken Brad Pitt, who last year was the most dangerous celebrity to search on [...]
By admin on Aug 20, 2009 in Internet, Security, Viruses and Spyware | 5 Comments
Norton Symantec has just released a list of top 100 Web sites affected by viruses. Visiting any of these sites could infect your PC, and you don’t even have to click on anything. Just by opening the site in your Web browser you are risking exposure to malware which can easily enter into your hard drive without your knowledge. [...]
By admin on Jun 26, 2009 in Software, Viruses and Spyware | 0 Comments
My PC was attacked again. Somehow this program called System Security 4.51 installed itself in my PC and displayed a message saying it found over 30 infections in the system. Of course, the viruses were fake. This program only wants you to believe there are threats on your hard drive, so you can go ahead and [...]
By admin on Jun 13, 2009 in Internet, Viruses and Spyware | 1 Comment
A new research by antivirus software company McAfee has revealed the most dangerous Internet search words that may lead users to pages with malware. The company examined 2,600 popular keywords on the most popular search engines, including Google, AOL, Yahoo and Live and analyzed over 400,000 Web pages. McAfee concluded that the most dangerous searches [...]
By admin on Mar 17, 2009 in Viruses and Spyware, Windows XP | 0 Comments
I spent the last weekend trying to solve a problem for a friend. He called me to clean a virus from his PC. I thought this would be a quick and easy job… My antivirus program found several infections and proceeded to remove them, but then the PC suddenly rebooted in the middle of the cleaning [...]