Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Does your antispyware software really work? With security experts warning of "rogue" antispyware products that sometimes do more harm than good, two security researchers have decided to take matters into their own hands.
They're working on a new software product, called Spycar, that will test the effectiveness of antispyware applications. "We ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Virus hunters have discovered a new Trojan that encrypts files on an infected computer and then demands $300 in ransom for a decryption password. The Trojan, identified as Cryzip, uses a commercial zip library to store the victim's documents inside a password-protected zip file and leaves step-by-step instructions on how ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Want to know what's going on in someone's mind? Look at the words they enter in their favorite search engine. Fortunately, that information is private, right? Maybe not.
If you use Google, for instance, and are not blocking cookies, the search engine likely has placed a cookie on your system that ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Peter Shinbach recently threw in the towel and shut down Bach Door, his online-communications blog.The public relations executive from Birmingham, Michigan, was fed up with so-called comment spam. Returning from a weeklong vacation, he found a slew of comments on his blog that had nothing to do with communications: They ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A new preview version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, with tabbed browsing, an integrated search box, and RSS support--all features long taken for granted by Firefox users--is now available. The Beta 2 preview of version 7 also sports a much more compact and streamlined interface than that of the current IE, ...
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