While most internet users in the US, Canada, the UK, France and Germany have security software installed on their PCs, many remain unsure about IT security, according to a recent study. Figures produced by F-Secure suggest that many consumers are unsure that their email is free of malware and other threats, while few people realise [...]

JUST so we’re bookmarking the same website using the same browser (we were going to say "just so we’re all on the same page" but that sounds outmoded) – and now we think about it we probably should have mentioned an RSS feed. Anyway, just so we’re consuming the same piece of text and/or multimedia [...]

I had a problem at work recently, some appointments being sent to people via meeting requests were appearing in the Outlook diary but not on the handheld device. It took a while but eventually… A colleague found a Microsoft KB Article on the subject, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827615. We had checked just about everything that I thought could [...]

The Web site for Indian antivirus vendor AvSoft Technologies has been hacked and is being used to install malicious software on visitors’ computers, security researchers said. The download section of AvSoft’s S-cop Web site hosts the malicious code, according to Roger Thompson, chief research officer with security vendor AVG. "They let one of their pages [...]

News in this morning from malware specialists BitDefender that the company has updated its free online antivirus scanner to incorporate the latest antispyware functionality. The modifications include a redesigned interface and notably increased levels of detection to help you seek and destroy those evil viruses and spyware files. Latest malware protection BitDefender CTO Bogdan Dumitru [...]

F-Secure Corporation F-Secure and Sony Ericsson partner to deliver Mobile Security for UIQ Helsinki, Finland January 23rd – F-Secure Corporation, the global leader in providing security as a service through mobile operators and Internet Service Providers, is today announcing the availability of its Mobile Security product for the UIQ platform. F-Secure and Sony Ericsson are [...]

Russian antivirus company Kaspersky has launched a hosted email-filtering service. Kaspersky Hosted Security Services, launched on Monday, is an anti-spam and anti-malware service aimed at small to medium-sized businesses. David Em, senior technology consultant for Kaspersky, said the hosted service will use the vendor’s anti-malware engine to scan email. The technology comprises an antivirus engine [...]

I see viruses. When an antivirus scanner reports a file as being infected, when in fact it is not, that reporting is considered a false positive. False positives aren’t confined to antivirus software either, as Scott Berinato discusses in the article, The Software That Cried Wolf. Indeed, false postives in any security software can be [...]

Over the past month a new type of malicious software has emerged, called a master boot record rootkit. Over the past month, a new type of malicious software has emerged, using a decades-old technique to hide itself from antivirus software. The malware, called Trojan.Mebroot by Symantec, installs itself on the first part of the computer’s [...]

Seen more as a prank than an actual threat, a Trojan horse for the Apple iPhone, first reported on Saturday, has already come and gone. Still, users should be on the look out for a package called "iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep," described as something you need to install before updating to the new 1.1.3 firmware. [...]