Dial M for Malware The authors of the prolific Warezov worm are targeting users of Skype.… Read more…
In last month’s column, I said “I’m more secure on a Mac than I was on Windows XP.” Some of you asked how Linux fares in that comparison. To that, I’ll say I’m marginally more secure on Linux than on a Mac, but I prefer a Mac anyway. I can almost see my inbox filling [...]
Security company McAfee has issued an alert about a Trojan that is insinuating itself into blogs, emails and instant messages. The Trojan, which only came to light yesterday, was reported by www.securitywatch.eweek.com to already have found its way on to hundreds of blog posts. Known as Spam-Mespam, it works by inserting a link into blog [...]
MySpace.com pages are being infected with a link to a computer virus, and another may be targeting Skype’s text chat for the first time, a Finnish computer security firm said Tuesday. User pages at the popular social networking site MySpace are being modified by versions of the Zlob Trojan, which is installing code that overlays [...]
Q. On your recommendation, I tried the Yahoo Answers site and was disappointed by the quality of the questions. I know Google Answers went out of business. Is there another site with a quality Q and A discourse? A. I still say Yahoo Answers is a great idea gone horribly wrong. If they hired enough [...]