Tag Archives: security

How to Protect Your Facebook Account From Hackers

Facebook is undoubtedly one among the most popular social networking services in the world. Millions of people around the world use Facebook to connect to their friends, family and also to make new friends. But, knowingly or unknowingly users give … Continue reading

Microsoft Security Essentials rated high in Malware removal tests

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), the free anti-virus software released by Microsoft got good reviews so far. This is a free product and it may not have all the bells and whistles you get from the commercial products, but it scores … Continue reading

30,000 Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and other email accounts hit by phishing attack

Over 30,000 email accounts including Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL and other web mail services have been compromised by phishing attacks recently. Yesterday Neowin reported that around 10,000 Hotmail accounts were compromised due to phishing attacks, the details of these account … Continue reading

Critical JavaScript Vulnerability found in Firefox 3.5

Firefox 3.5 release came with a new JavaScript engine Tracemonkey for faster rendering of the JavaScript pages. But the release also has a critical vulnerability that lies in Just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler. Mozilla is working on a fix to patch … Continue reading

Microsoft Security Essentials is available, download now

Microsoft Security Essentials, a free security software from Microsoft is available for download from today. This is a beta release of the software and the download is capped at 75,000, Microsoft may increase the download limit based on the demand, … Continue reading

Microsoft Security Essentials: Free Anti-Virus Software from Microsoft

Microsoft used to offer a Anti-Virus suite called OneCare that got discontinued due to lack of interest, and then Microsoft announced that it will offer a free solution code named “Morro” for security in November 2008. Looks like finally Morro … Continue reading

AppRemover helps uninstalling AntiVirus applications

AntiVirus applications and other security software are integrated into the system deeply, so while uninstalling some of these programs may leave files behind. It is  nearly impossible for the average user to hunt these files and remove all the files. … Continue reading

Download Lavasoft Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition

Ad-Aware is one of the must have free program for protecting system against malware attacks. Ad-Aware will protect your system from spyware, keyloggers, trojans and other identity theft software. Ad-Aware has both free and paid versions, and the free version … Continue reading

Internet Explorer Security Update Available

Microsoft officially released a security update for Internet Explorer which addresses the security flaw i wrote about yesterday. Usually Microsoft sends security patches once in a month via windows update, but this time due to the critical security but they … Continue reading

Internet Explorer users shift to other browsers

Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer are advised to shift to other browsers due to a serious security flaw in IE according to Gaurdian. The security flaw was spotted last week when hackers started attacking IE 7 users. Other versions of … Continue reading