Fake AVG Antivirus 2011 is a rouge antivirus program which is designed to mislead people. At first the rougware program may give user the impression that it is the legitimate antivirus program AVG, but in reality it is only a fake version of the original software. Fake scan websites that promote “AVG Antivirus 2011” is […]
Autorun is a most common default feature in Windows operating systems. It was introduced in the Windows XP which enables media and devices to launch programs by use of commands listed in a file autorun.inf, stored in the root directory. Now a days this feature is mostly utilized by malware to infect the system. Since […]
Microsoft has warned all windows users about a publicly disclosed scripting vulnerability in MHTML protocol handler. This is a MIME Encapsulation of Aggregated HTML termed as MHTML which is used by applications to render certain kinds of documents. The vulnerability affects all users on Windows XP and later. The vulnerability could be exploited through any […]
Today I received mail claiming it has been sent from facebook as below. ************************************************ From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Facebook Support. A new password has been changed. ID4696 Date: Friday, January 28, 2011 3:36 PM Dear user of FaceBook. A Spam is sent from your FaceBook account. Your password has been changed for safety. Information […]
Facebook is the fastest growing social networking site in the world today with up to 250,000 new users being added every day. But sharing information has lots of risks including your name which can be accessed by others and your profile can be viewed. Anyone can get valuable information and private photos from your profile, […]
With the increasing number of people using Facebook, here comes another security risk. The website has said in a blog post that it would give developers of applications access to the contact information of users who install their apps. Facebook is putting at risk the phone numbers and addresses of its 500+ million users. While […]
New vulnerability that was disclosed during the end of December and confirmed by Microsoft as a security flaw in Internet Explorer is still unpatched. The vulnerability affected versions 6, 7 and 8 of Internet Explorer while handling recursive cascading style sheets (CSS). The number of websites that are reported to be compromised and are having […]
Most of you may already be aware of the Quick Heal’s laptop tracking service. For those who do not know, we have started a new initiative with the hope to recover stolen laptops by starting the service of tracking stolen laptops through the portal TrackMyLaptop.net. It offers a free service for individuals to trace their […]