Archive for February, 2010

  • Antivirus Spam

    Sophos has posted an article about a free fake antivirus that uses VirusTotal’s reputation to lure its victims. VirusTotal is a free virus and malware online scan service. The message is included in the article. It says that the user’s computer has virus activities. It threatens the user that if he or she does not [...]

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  • Many unaware of email keyword scanning

    The majority of people are unaware some free email providers scan their personal messages to aid advert placement, a study has discovered. Over two-thirds (65 per cent) of surfers don’t realise many free email providers scan messages for keywords in a bid to place more user-targeted adverts. The Attitudes to Email study carried out by [...]

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  • Virgin Media to offer 100Mbps broadband

    ISP Virgin Media has said it will offer 100Mbps broadband services to its customers by the end of the year. Virgin Media will offer a 100Mbps broadband product to its customers by the end of the year, it has announced. The ISP already offers 50Mbps services on its fibre-optic broadband network, which is capable of [...]

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  • New Acrobat and Reader Versions

    Adobe users can upgrade to the latest Acrobat and Reader versions. The latest versions, 9.3.1 for both softwares, fixed serious flaws that existed in the previous versions. One of the flaws are cross-domian requests. According to a survey by ScanSafe, malicious PDF files made up about 80 percent of web attacks last quarter of last [...]

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  • Windows Live Outage

    An outage occurred today that lasted for about an hour for Hotmail, Xbox Live, and Windows Live users. The event happened due to the loss of a server according to Microsoft. The company has replaced the lost server within an hour. The article at latimes.com notes that Twitter users were the first ones who noticed [...]

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  • Windows 7 Problems

    Microsoft has released a detailed report about some problems in Windows 7 including memory leaks and being frozen. A memory leak happens when Power Manager opens an ALPC which stands for Advanced Local Procedure Call port and closes another port. The operating system should have closed the ALPC. The machine would eventually crash if this [...]

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  • Blue Screen After MS10-015 Update

    Some users who updated their Windows XP machines with the MS10-015 update experienced the infamous blue screen of death. One of the suggested fixes is to boot from a Windows CD or DVD and starting recovery sample. Then, uninstall the update which contain 11 fixes in Windows Kernel. It is not clear why the problem [...]

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  • New Office 2011 Mac Details

    Outlook and the restoration of Visual support are a couple of the new things that users can expect for the next Office suite version for the Mac. “You’ve told us that working together across platforms is a priority to you and that’s why we are making Office for Mac 2011 the best, most compatible productivity [...]

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  • Windows 7 Activation Update

    An update to Windows Activation Technologies will be fed soon to Windows 7 users. Unlike Microsoft’s decision on Windows XP where it labeled a similar update as high-priority security update, the 7 update is optional and rated as “important.” The update checks for over 70 “activation exploits” or “cracks.” It include checks for the “RemoveWAT” [...]

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  • 2010 World Cup cybercrime site set up

    Security firm Symantec has set up a website to help football fans looking for information about the 2010 World Cup stay safe online. A new website is aiming to keep anyone looking for tickets or information about the 2010 World Cup safe from cybercriminals.

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