Infected Web Pages Nearly Triple

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

The rate at which Internet security company Sophos detected infected Web pages nearly tripled in the first quarter of 2008, the company said. In its Q1 08 threat report released Monday, Sophos says that it discovered a new infected Web page every 5 seconds. In 2007, the company says, it saw ...

Malicious Flash on LiveJournal.com

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Sounds more of an annoyance than it does "malicious" but the folks over at Spyware Sucks has an interesting post about a bad flash banner being posted on Livejournal.com.  I just thought I'd share.

Logo Ease – Free Logo Design

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Free logo maker. 100% free! Intuitive and simple design interface allows you to create your own free business logo designs in just minutes. You will receive various electronic files for both web and print use including the vector source files. File formats include eps, png, jpg and tiff. You can ...

Microsoft sees huge rise in Web attacks

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Criminals changed tactics in the last six months of 2007, dropping malicious email in favour of Web-based attacks, according to data reported to Microsoft by Windows users. The company saw the number of Trojan downloader programs it removed from Windows machines jump by 300 percent, according to Jimmy Kuo, principal architect ...

Troubleshooting Windows Update Issues with Vista

Monday, April 21st, 2008

If you are having problems getting certain updates installed on Vista, there are two places you can look to troubleshoot: %windir%\windowsupdate.log, a log file for Windows Update events %windir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log, a log file that tracks events to the servicing stack These log files include the following fields: Time/Date Stamp, Message Severity, Message Source, Operation ...