We had been reported by some of our partners and customers that they received phone call from technician claiming to be form Microsoft. It is basically a telephone call scam where the caller is trying to extract credit card details along with the password and other sensitive information. The caller tries to generate fear in […]
It has been observed that more and more children are using social networking websites. Kids even fake their age to join Facebook. Facebook is for high school and college students. Facebook is intended solely for users who are thirteen (13) years of age or older and the age limit is there for the purpose. Any […]
It appears that a new Twitter scam is making its way in lots of innocent users twitter account. We call this a Profile Spy worm app. Its basically a rogue Twitter application known as Profile Spy which tricks Twitter users into believing that it can tell them who has been viewing their online profile. If […]
We have observed that cyber criminals are sending fake emails about tax refund. This is a latest cyber crime activity where they are trying to trap innocent users aimed at extracting bank details in the pretext of tax refund notification. The mails that you may receive about income tax refund is not sent by any […]
With the beginning of warm up matches, the fever of cricket’s biggest carnival is rising. Every cricket fan is feeling its heat & we have good news for all those cricket crazy fans – “Quick Heal’s Crazy about Cricket” scheme. One more reason to cheer!! To participate in the scheme, you just have to buy, […]
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 […]
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 […]
We have shot a small video of just released Quick Heal 2011 products. We have tried to explain the new features of 2011 series. Abhijit Jorvekar, Swanand Shinde and Abhijit Kularni had done a wonderful job of presenting the features. It was our first attempt to make the video and I can see everybody had […]
It’s a common practice to send Christmas and new year e-greetings to friends and colleagues and other social network connections. However this is the time we see increase in spam and phishing scam emails with a fake e-cards every year. This year too we expect the trend to continue. At Quick Heal we are already […]
