Late Sunday night my husband was working on his blog when he decided to check out one of his trackbacks. Bad idea. He was immediately redirected to a fake anti-virus site and even though he knows not to click on anything and shut the browser down via Task Manager, somehow the program, called Vista Internet more »

Malware is absolutely everywhere these days. Even if you do all the right things like not clicking on links or opening attachments in emails, avoiding bittorents, porn sites and illegal download sites like Limewire (which is full of malware!), not clicking on pop up or banner ads, and being careful about what apps and notifications more »

The Malwarebytes Corporation, makers of the excellent anti-malware software of the same name, have discovered that a Chinese rival has been stealing from its database of malware samples and flagging a specific keygen code for the Malwarebytes software using the exact same naming scheme. When Malwarebytes confronted the vendor, IObit, about the theft, the company more »

Visitors to the New York Times website over the weekend got an unwelcome surprise in the form of malicious ads serving scareware. The ads instigated a browser hijack and redirect visitors to best-antivirus03.com, a rogue site serving up fake anti-virus software. The Times is aware of the issue and posted a note to warn its more »

Everyone loves Facebook. It’s fun, it’s useful, and it can be downright addicting. Thanks to its ever increasing popularity it can also be dangerous. Hackers and scammers are well aware of the large audience on Facebook and do what they can to take advantage of it. Here are a few of the ways they do so. . .