When considering moving to a different operating system it is always good to ask “Are the programs I have purchased compatible?”. Sometimes however you can expose just how foolish you have been in your purchasing decisions, such is the case in a question on Yahoo Answers: Is XP Antivirus 2009 compatible with Vista? I got [...]
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News networks will soon be scaring you with ATM malware
ATM’s are pretty awesome devices that virtually everyone uses no matter what country you are in. They are convenient and typically located at every bank, mall and gas station. Most average consumers never even begin to think about the possibility that they are not secure. Usually they are concerned with someone seeing their pin number [...]
BitDefender releases the first Conficker/Downadup removal tool
The Conficker/Downadup worm has proven to be a pretty nasty one that is difficult to remove due to it’s auto-update capability. Manually removing it can be difficult even if you are using a standard anti-virus. Thankfully there is now a pretty good removal tool for it that is made by BitDefender. You can download the [...]
Innocent websites are increasingly the target of malware distributors
Malware is a big problem that affects virtually every operating system out there. The bad guys make a lot of money from it and as a result it will be a problem for a long time to come. Malware is something in particular that I have been interested in for a very long time and it [...]
McAfee collected their 20 millionth malware sample yesterday
How many pieces of malware do you think are out there? McAfee has a pretty good idea now that they have collected their 20 millionth malware sample. This is a pretty staggering number and is starting to emphasize why there is a switch happening with anti-virus companies to whitelist rather than blacklist files. By telling [...]

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